Anybody walking along the road to Abingdon Lock will see sheep are grazing. There are a lot of them.
The crocodile has grown scales since last time I looked.
Over the other side of the River Thames, in the Abbey Meadows, workmen were chopping a poplar that had fallen.
The paths in the Abbey Gardens seem clear of fallen leaves somehow.
Thankyou to Daniel for this view of Abingdon’s Abbey Meadow open air pool.
The L-shaped pool had a £1.3 million refurbishment and was back open in 2018 and 2019 and very popular.
Like other open air pools it did not open in 2020.
The White Horse Leisure & Tennis Centre is open, as is the Hinksey open air pool, in Oxford, but the opening date for the Abbey Meadow pool is yet to be announced.
So we are trying to be patient.
Meanwhile the play area is open and very popular and people have been using the space of the park.
There has also been a litter bug detective trail.
The Radio 4 PM program today had a piece about 170 trees at Hiroshima that survived the atom bomb blast 75 years ago today. Seedlings from those trees have been planted around the world to show there is hope – whatever.
There is a tree in the Abbey Grounds planted by the Abingdon Peace Group ‘in Memory of All Victims of War.’
I met some members of Abingdon Camera club, gathering in the Cattle Market car park. They have been meeting virtually and their first physical meeting was to be in the Abbey Grounds. For Peter, who sometimes sends me pictures, this was his first outing since the start of the lockdown. If he sends me any pictures I will add them to this post.
The clouds were high in the sky, and the air was getting warmer after some cool cloudy days. Tomorrow is predicted to be hot.
Sally sent me this picture of the peace vigil at the war memorial that morning. Peter sent pictures but we have a problem that they got bounced so I will try to find why.
In the Abbey Meadows, in Abingdon, members of the Carbon Cutters were tidying up and pruning the garden beside the children’s play area. There will be some new colourful planting next year.
Nearby work is still underway on refurbishing the toilets. They will include five self-contained unisex toilets, men’s urinals, and a wheelchair accessible toilet with a height adjustable adult-sized changing bench and hoist. There will also be baby changing facilities.