The Abingdon Museum basement is now the One Planet Abingdon ‘Climate Emergency Centre‘. It was opened on 25th September as part of the Big Green Day in Abingdon.
They are open Thursday, Fridays and Saturday 10am – 4pm. It is run by volunteers. You can drop in and share ideas. Coffee is available.
Today the Abingdon Carbon Cutters were bottling apple and pear juice. Different groups will be using the room at the side.
The next group litter pick, organised by AbiBinit!, will start at the Peachcroft shops on 11th September.
Their last group litter pick began near the Reynolds Way shops on Saturday 7th August.
I was working on that day, and cycling home I was surprised to see a lot of blue bags – far more than those on this picture.
The nearby garages will be demolished in the next month.
The Abingdon Bridge charity supported local young people in creating a wall full of murals on the other side of the garages. Only those murals made from tiles, signed by young people, have survived. The murals painted on boards did not survive. They got replaced by newer murals, painted on board, which have not survived.
There was a River & Riverbank clean-up today using the combined forces of Surfers Against Sewage, Abingdon Carbon Cutters, Abingdon Against Plastics and Kingfisher Canoe club, all coordinated by Anne Smart.
Anne Smart presented prizes for the three most unusual finds
(utility power block, ‘dollar’ lino and underwater power drill).
The river and river banks are now safer for wildlife.
This is a picture from the blog in May 2006. I believe that plastic ring can holders are still allowed in 2021, fifteen years later.
P.S Today’s blog post is dedicated to J.
The field between the Dunmore Road and Wootton Road, currently being developed for new houses, has been used for agriculture since at least 1880 and probably much further back.
The earth or soil here comprises a topsoil of clay with a subsoil of stiffer clay and bands of sand and gravel.
The British Geological Survey of the area indicates that beneath the soil is harder Amphill & Kimmeridge Clay from the Jurassic Period.
Since my last visit to the development, the speed limit on the Abingdon outer relief road has changed from 40 MPH to 30 MPH near where the new housing is to be.
The Wootton Road is closed both sides of the Wotton Road roundabout for a few weeks, although you can still go round the outer relief road.
For more pictures of Earth in all its meanings (from soil to the environment to the whole planet) visit City Daily Photo – Theme Day,