This Estate Agents sign at the junction of Lucca Drive and Virginia Way is one of many around Abingdon advertising the upcoming 2011 Abingdon Air & Country Charity Show happening this Sunday. Last year the show’s organisers were not sure if it had a future as they were not allowed to land planes. Such problems have been overcome and the show now goes on. Chancellors are one of the sponsors and have shown a good use for some of their signs.

There may well have been a lot of street parties in Abingdon to celebrate the Royal Wedding weekend. I have pictures of just two.

In St John’s Road there was a road closure, something more people can request for the next big Royal event, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee on the Weekend of 2nd-5th June 2012.

But in some roads, complete closure is not necessary. At Healey Close enough off road space could be found to have a get together.

Thanks to Jan for allowing me to borrow the pictures of St John’s and Ray for Healey Close.

Hope they inspire.

The 4000 buns were cooked at Millet’s Farm, and delivered to the Town Council offices with a throng of photographers in attendance.

William and Catherine were married at 11am and the buns arrived in Abingdon at 11:40am

Quite a few people were there for the occasion. The Town Clerk was reckoning on about 2000 in the morning, but it was double that number.

Abingdon’s youngest ever Mayor, Duncan Brown, threw the first bun. It went almost as far as Costas.

The crowd had seen the wedding of Will and Kate, and had gathered for a unique Abingdon tradition –  catching buns.

– in which the real fun is the anticipation.

The crowd was so big and so vast and so huge that none of the throwers could reach all of them.

After the bun throw councillors got back into hard hats and hi-vis jacks for the descent through – what is  – a building site at the County Hall.

The new Cafe ‘Throwing Buns’ had an excellent day. The lady in charge of Throwing Buns is seen here with Steve King who put up that bunting you see with the aid of a ladder at 7am this morning. The police were called at that early hour because they thought somebody was after some lead from the roof.

All of this could only ever happen in a town called Abingdon.