For anybody arriving late in Abingdon there is a list of Hotels and B&Bs on the A Board outside the Town Council Information Centre. (Thanks to DM for the comment yesterday. The Four Pillars has been recently renamed as the Oxford Abingdon Hotel. Maybe I should have sent the MG to Sandford on Thames.)

Still missing from the Abingdon list is the Upper Reaches which is looking overgrown as well as boarded up. The Vale of White Horse District Council own the land and could well be on the case. The hotel has an excellent location beside the River Thames.

I hear that people come from far and wide to the Miele Outlet in Abingdon. One work colleage, who lives in Chippenham, knows Abingdon just because they keep an eye on the Miele website for what is on offer at the Outlet, and then come to Abingdon for that purpose. The outlet has a large range of unboxed and re-conditioned products, and is part of the larger Miele presence in Abingdon – one of our most important employers.