I see that Cafe Gias has morphed into Daddy’s Cafe.
Not too much has changed inside or out, apart from the introduction of some Thai foods, and Thai statues.
The new proprietors also run the Yummy Thai Restaurant in Wantage.
So now they have a Yummy Restaurant and a Daddy’s Cafe.
A new online map of Abingdon’s shops and businesses was launched today by the Abingdon Chamber of Commerce. (Sorry about the glare which means you can see the people at the launch and not the map itself.)
The young lad on the right is the web guru who made it all work, and the familiar face on the left, who runs Goffs the newsagents, did most of the data entry. I think they were working through the night to get it ready for today’s launch.
On the map you just click on a box to bring up the details. I clicked on E & R Goff in this example.
The web address is www.abingdonshoppingguide.co.uk .
Lady McBeth closed up shop about ten months ago. I am wearing my last pair of shoes from Lady McBeth, and they have not that much wear left in them.
A manicurist has just opened up in the shop at 1A West St Helen Street. It looks a highly technical operation: French manicures and spa pedicures. But they are not really my thing.
I used to get Dr Martin Shoes at Lady McBeth but will have to go further afield next time I need new pair: possibly to Clarkes, or Abingdon Shoes, or even as far as The Warehouse at Coxeter House.
A new cafe / sandwich / bun shop is opening later this month in the shadows of the County Hall from where they throw the buns as part of the time honoured Abingdon tradition. See World of Buns for a Bun Throwing Timeline.
I guess the next official Bun Throwing is likely to be in 2012 when we celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Perhaps there will be some unofficial bun throwing in the new cafe on opening day. The Mayor will be there.
This was once Escapade, that gift shop with the incense and rings… and up a few stairs… the second hand books, greeting cards, and party games in tins.