Museum re-opens Saturday

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Museum Re-opens Saturday
Thanks to Maggie for this picture of one of the new museum signs, and people relaxing outside Throwing Buns last Saturday. Throwing Buns will also be running Buns in The Basement, the new cafe in the County Hall cellar.

Museum re-opening day is this coming Saturday. The Mayor of Abingdon and Martha Howe-Douglas, star of TV show ‘Horrible Histories’, are to reopen the museum on Saturday at 12 noon.
Museum Re-opens Saturday
Maggie also sent me pictures of the Open Gardens event put on last Saturday by the Friends of the Museum to help raise funds towards the  County Hall Museum redevelopment. Three gardens were open in East St Helen Street. The fund raising done by the Friends has been an essential part of the process. Their hard work and commitment has shown the kind of community involvement needed to get money from bigger sponsors like the National Lottery.

Independents’ Day

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Independents' Day
Looking in shops windows this evening I see that today was Independents’ Day in the South and Vale. This was a day when people were encouraged to use twitter to promote local Independent Shops.
Independents' Day
Here is one of the tweeted pictures with a Mostly Books Book, thanks to the Chamber of Commerce …
Independents' Day
At Fabulous Flowers I discovered there is also a book called Oxfordshire Independents’ Day. In it there are a lot of Abingdon shops have advertised.

Grebe nest on the Abbey Mill Stream

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Grebe Family
I am told that the Grebe’s nest on the Abbey Millstream was washed away last year, but this year two of the brood have survived.

There is a striking difference between the two parents. The hunter parent has stayed slim enough to dive deep after fish, and the other parent seems to have put on extra buoyancy to keep the nest afloat.
Grebe Family
The Grebe young, with their zebra markings, also have very good appetites.

Abingdon Triumphant – Radley made them work for every inch

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Abingdon beat Radley – by 3/4 length – to win the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley. Abingdon also won this prestigous cup in 2002 & 2011.
Abingdon
Ben Rodford took this picture of the Abingdon Crew on way to the start.
Abingdon
The second picture shows the winning Abingdon Crew.

The Abingdon boat had beaten the Australian and US national champions as well as Latymer Upper School and St Peter’s School to reach the final.

This win, together with victories at the Schools’ Head of the River and the National Schools’ Championship Eights earlier in the year, secures the three major rowing titles for Abingdon this season. Winning the triple is a rare feat and has only been achieved once before in the School’s history in 2002.

Athol Hundermark, the Abingdon coach said, “The Henley win is the culmination of a fantastic year for the crew who have performed extremely well under pressure. Radley made us work for every inch…”

Congratulations to both Abingdon and Radley. Both can be seen rowing near us on the River Thames, just a few miles downstream from Oxford.