The scaffolding came down on Monday revealing the new look to the flats above 13-17 Stert Street.
I thought it a crime that one of Abingdon’s best window displays was half hidden behind the scaffold for so long. But now their Easter display can be seen.
A few doors up, at number 27 Stert Street, there is another Easter display but you will have to wait two days to buy one of their filled pinatas. It is now a Saturday sweet shop.
Mr Tim Oates, from North Abingdon, brought a neighbour to Abingdon Community Hospital, but could not find a parking place and so parked at the trading estate, nearby. Other people have parked on the grass and possibly in spaces allotted to Marcham Road Health Centre – alongside.
There is a petition in the waiting room at Marcham Road Health Centre asking for the organisation running the hospital (namely Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust) to find a solution to the parking problems so that people going to the Health Centre can use their alloted parking places.
It is good to see the Community Hospital thriving even if it has become a victim of its own success.
Tim Valentine, the busking pianist, was playing his piano on a trolley in town this morning. The music warmed passers by on a cold morning.
A funeral director walked in front of the hearse out of Conduit Road and along Ock Street, then moved to the side of the road and bowed his top hat with great respect towards the coffin inside.
A red van had come from Banbury and was trying to find the way round the Abingdon road system. After asking a postman, he went round and round the one way system two or three times, then drove round and round East St Helen Street and West St Helen Street before finding the final destination: Lansbrough Lettings in West St Helen Street.
It was very cold for Palm Sunday and so it was decided that the start and end of the first ever Abingdon Passion Play would be performed outside, as planned, but some of the two hour performance would have to be in the Guildhall.
As was fitting for Palm Sunday the performance began with Jesus on an Andalucian riding donkey, thanks to the Island Donkey Centre.
Then, after a couple more scenes, people moved from the Abbey Grounds to the Guildhall where, despite the use of the Abbey Hall and an overflow area in the Roysse Room, not everybody could fit. Somebody said there were about a thousand people when it started. So some had to wait outside or go home. A great turn out for such a cold day.
My son did get in and let me have this picture of the Last Supper.
When Jesus left the Guildhall he was stumbling under the weight of a cross.
People felt very sorry for the two half frozen criminals crucified either side of Jesus who had to spend twice as long on their crosses.
The performance was very well staged, thanks partly to the Abingdon Drama Club. There were so many community groups and schools taking part it was much bigger than a Church in Abingdon event. It was one of the big Abingdon events of 2013.
Here is a video I made of stills and movies for anybody who missed it …