I walked by Trinity Church and saw a funeral was in progress. A Scottish piper was waiting outside.

In the Albert Park the leaves were golden.

They look even better when the sun is shining.

On the way back, the piper was still waiting, and I saw that 6 cars in Conduit Road had tickets for parking on the single yellow line. The new civil parking enforcement is catching people out, even funeral goers – which seems a bit sad.

Today road painters have  been repainting a lot of single and double yellow lines in the town centre. The lines need to be clear if they are to be enforced.

There were a few cars parked on single and double yellow lines and the road painters could not get all the lines done. They said they would return to do the rest another day.

The Abingdon Herald has one of Daniel’s pictures looking down on the football ground. Here is another picture by Daniel from near Abingdon Lock looking back to Abingdon Bridge

And this is the bridge from over the cricket ground. Such clear pictures. They are amazing.

Ice remained on flood water all day long – as the sun went down on 2020.

One of my unfulfilled aspirations is to ice skate in Abingdon.

Happy New Year and hope you fulfill your New Year’s aspirations.

The Abbey Cinema is open and showing films. This evening was the last showing of the blockbuster Tenet. The next films to appear will be the special features: David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet and Three Tenors: Voices for Eternity.

Circling above Abingdon town centre at around midday, today, there was a helicopter.

I was entering the library at that time and it made it difficult to hear – especially with face coverings.

I raved, to the lady outside the door, about the book I was returning. I  dropped it in the box with the other returned books. I then used the hand sanitiser. Some landed on my hands and some spurted onto the floor.

The lady at the main desk then asked whether I wanted to read anymore by the author I had mentioned. Despite the helicopter, she had overheard. She looked on the system and found another book by that author, on the shelves, at 823.
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This coming Wednesday, the theme for the Abingdon Share a Poem group is Autumn. In the same shelf as 823 was 821 – Poetry. So one thing led to another and I found some good books and checked them out with the self service system. Outside I took a picture of fallen leaves.

I have not seen the Big Issue lady for some time but she was there, today, next to the mother and child statue. My wife thought the helicopter had been looking for a missing six year old who had been found.

Seeing St Helen’s Wharf this evening, made me realise autumn is here. Today’s date – September 21st – is on or near the autumn equinox.

Green leaves have turned to browns and gold on some trees opposite St Helen’s Wharf.

Autumn events like the Michaelmas Fair and Craft Fair will not be happening this year – like so many events in Spring and Summer that were cancelled. The rate of transmission of Covid-19 is on the increase again in the second wave. This will not be a normal autumn.

We had a few days away as an alternative to the holiday abroad that was cancelled. See the Not Abingdon Blog.