Abingdon Lock chamber is being renovated.
John sent me a picture of some heavy bags of gravel being lowered into the chamber at the far end.
Barriers are there to stop more water getting in. Floods may have hampered progress but work is underway again.
The lock chamber floor is now covered with bags of gravel. (More pictures soon of the renovation.)
Spike sent me a picture of ‘Cold start on the 12/12/12 Masefield Playing Field‘
I got myself a free souvenir parking ticket with 12:12 12 Dec 12.
The Abingdon Herald of Wednesday, December 12, 2012 led with the story that there will be new traffic lights at the top of Spring Road.
Adfas (Abingdon and District Fine Art Society) had a talk on Beau Brummell at the Guildhall, and there is a production of Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters at Abingdon College for three days.
During the day I saw one of the Solar Powered Christmas Trees being attached to Goffs, thanks to Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council. I believe they had a budget for 17 energy saving trees.
12/12/12 ended as it began – cold and frosty. The final picture is taken from the walkway across Abingdon Weir.
Did anybody notice anything to make a remarkable day of what was a remarkable date?
East St Helen Street was blocked by a Co-op lorry earlier this evening. The driver got out of his cab when he could not drive through the parked cars.
Cars stuck behind the lorry then reversed back up East St Helen Street and some of them drove down West St Helen Street the wrong way.
There was a carol service at St Helen’s Church and all the surrounding roads were chock-a-block with parked cars. Parents had desperately tried to get their children to church on time, and many parked wherever they could.
Just in time for Christmas, a new system for collecting your parcels has arrived in Abingdon . It is for people who are never at home when the postman calls and find getting to to the sorting office on Ock Street on Saturday Morning inconvenient.
For a fee you can have your parcels delivered to the nearest ByBox. You will then be texted or emailed a code, and be able pick up the parcel. Then there is nothing to stop you offline shopping in the town centre shops.
For more information see My.ByBox. Bybox are based in Wantage and launched the first My ByBox in 2009.