Each 1st day of the month is “Theme Day” on the City Daily Photo site. The theme this month is ‘Loving Life.’ I have re-used a picture from the Abingdon Bun Throw last June where people look to be loving the bun throw – an essential part of life for people in Abingdon.

Click here to view pictures from all participants.

Long Alley Almshouse was built in 1446 and has seen many generations of residents, of Governors of Christ’s Hospital of Abingdon ( who manage Abingdon’s almshouses), and of Kings and Queens. The transition from one generation to the next has seen huge changes in fashion, customs, and technology.

The bible verses on the walls are a reminder however to each generation that life is transitory.

That we should take it one day at a time.

That we don’t know what comes hereafter.

A very late entry for City Daily Photo Theme Day on December 1st.  For more ‘Transitions’ photographs try HERE.

If you move or change one letter the closest place name to ‘Abingdon’ is ‘Abington‘.

Places in England with the name Abington are:

1) The villages of Great and Little Abington in Cambridgeshire

2) The Abington district of Northampton

Change two letters and you get ‘abandon‘ as in ‘Abandon Ship.’

To see other entries to the City Daily Photo theme day of ‘Abandoned’ please look here .. http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.no/2016/09/october-2016-theme-day-gallery-abandoned.html

The theme of the City Daily Photo this Month on 1st of April is the ‘beauty of simplicity’.

So here is a return to a topic I did before once: It is the worn stones under the County Hall in Abingdon. Many feet have worn down the layers from the stone slab to form these contours. These slabs have also been pulled up and put down again, recently, as part of the County Hall refurbishment.

For more beautiful simplicity, click here.