Abingdon Community Fridge will be at Hadland Road Community Centre on Saturday from 10:30-11:30. Just turn up armed with your mask and bags.

This is helping us as a community to save food waste. There is no membership fee but lots of helpful volunteers trying to get the food to you before it is wasted. (Also Monday 5 – 5:30 pm and Thursday sessions 1 – 2 pm.) Occasionally there is not enough waste and the session is called off – maybe that is good thing. You may have to check Facebook to be sure at other times.

There is also Abingdon Community Larder at Trinity Church Hall on Friday 2 – 4 pm. They are part of https://www.sofea.uk.com/, providing food that would otherwise go to waste to people at a reduced cost. For this you pay a small membership fee. Members are not means tested, and generally people join to get low cost food of high quality.

The Abingdon one way system continues to confuse drivers from other places. On the High Street a lorry stopped to ask directions.

Meanwhile on the Market Place the Christmas decorations had been taken down and were about to be taken away for another year.

Along Bridge Street there were police cars and ambulances near the Old Gaol. In other times I might have gone to have a look.

But today I seemed to be following a bread lorry. It was now stopped near Waitrose and a local man was giving clear directions to help it find the Co-op.

The UK Bread Marketing Report says the lockdown has provided opportunities to the bread industry. More people are making their breakfast and lunch at home and could be using bread.