The snow is hanging on. There have been further flurries this evening. This picture from a North Abingdon correspondent shows a family who chose to model themselves in snow.
Our Albert Park correspondent got some shots, with his Phone, of the last moments of a Giant Redwood.
In this one you can see a section of the tree trunk in mid air.
Tomorrow the ‘logs’ will be taken away on a lorry.
I was passing the Town Council offices when I noticed a group of Town Criers auditioning a young man who wanted to join their number.
Abingdon has more than one Town Crier.
The Guild of Town Criers has the advantage that collectively they are able to do more events, and be seen in more places. The disadvantage of a guild is that no Abingdon Town Crier will ever win any regional or national competition. They are not allowed to enter because they are not a named individual.
One of the guild members told me that the way round this problem was simple. Every other town should follow Abingdon and have a guild. Then all towns could compete on equal terms and have the benefits.
A is for Abingdon – on the other side of the River Thames from most of Abingdon.
B is for the 1870 Abingdon Parliamentary Boundary, a few feet from A.
C is for The Spring Road Cemetery.
Stone crosses lean together.
An angel looks down.
S I N J U N @lordsinjun tweeted this picture of a polar bear seen in #Abingdon.
There was still lots of snow for making snowmen, snowcreatures and pulling children round on sledges. I even saw one child being pulled on a sledge across Caldecott Rec by a bike.
As always when it snows I take far too may pictures to put them all on the blog. These are possibly my favorite five … St Helens Wharf viewed from Wilsham Road …
Trendell’s Folly in the Abbey Gardens …
A fisherman by the River Thames …
Twitty’s Almshouses.
St Helen’s Church with snow like blossom on the trees.
Other pictures can be found on a facebook album called Snow in Abingdon on 18-19th Jan 2013 .