Two completely different games of football in Southern Town Park

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Two games of Football
On Sunday I saw two completely different games of football happening at the same time in Southern Town Park. This was the weekend of the annual Abingdon Youth FC Festival of Football. So on one side 150 teams, from age under 9 to under 15, were playing in a series or tournaments.
Two games of Football
Nearby over on the rugby pitches, American Football had started, and the Oxford Saints beat Gloucester Centurions 41-0. The Saints next host Bristol Apache at Abingdon RFC on Sunday 27th May.
Two games of Football
They bring their own goalposts and vocabulary such as “…the oxford Defence was generating turnovers through fumble recoveries…” and “… a brief spell of punt trading…” and “…Jonny Dover tacked on his 3rd PAT out of 4…”
Two games of Football
Back at the Youth Football there was a replica FA Cup, and lots of stalls. On one stall there was a signed picture of the Chelsea team who have just won the UEFA Champions League on Saturday beating Bayern Munich on penalties.

After this victory, the headline in the Süddeutsche Zeitung read “How much bad luck fits into one match?”. The Gazzetta dello Sport reported on the temporary  Chelsea Manager Di Matteo saying “Two and a half months at the helm were sufficient to initiate a series of miracles”.

In The Guardian we read of “The Great Escape.”

Oxfordshire Arts Weeks

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(I have had a few gremlins in recent days and twice have switched traffic to the mirror site abingdonblog.net. I’m asking the company hosting this blog to check out what could be wrong and should hopefully soon get a solution.)
Oxfordshire Arts Weeks
This is the week when the Oxfordshire Arts Weeks moves focus from Oxford to the South of Oxfordshire including Abingdon. The nearest exhibition to the town centre is at St Ethelwold’s House where The East St Helen’s Group are exhibiting.
Oxfordshire Arts Weeks
The house and garden make a lovely setting apart from the artwork.
Oxfordshire Arts Weeks
Down the bottom of the garden Emma Cavell has a studio and creates Contemporary Mosaics from broken pieces of pottery. She also teaches from this very relaxed setting, and at Sunningwell School of Art.

The full list of Abingdon exhibitors can be found on the Art weeks website. But here is a short list …

373 The White Horse Leasure Centre – Active Arts
374 Abingdon Health and Well Being Centre – Mixed Media
375 OLA junior School – Mixed Media
376 Alison Jones – Ceramics, Glass, Jewellery, Sculpture
377 St NIcolas C of E Primary – Mixed Media
378 East St Helens Group (Featured)
379 Catherine Pumphrey – Painting

Local Showcase

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Local Showcase
Limited Edition ‘Abingdon’ pottery is still available at ER Goffs. The next batches will say Abingdon-On-Thames so buy them while you can.

Local Showcase
Paul, President of the Abingdon-on-Thames Chamber of Commerce, and Manager at ER Goffs, organised another local business showcase on the Market Place today.
Local Showcase
The latest member of the chamber is a bit more than a local company. Subman came to promote Subway on the trading estate.

Local Showcase
Town Council members were promoting  jubilee events. There is a link on the side for the detail but here is a quick rundown …

Saturday 2 June –
1pm – Fun in the Park and Dance Festival
Evening – Jubilee Dance

Sunday 3 June
10am – Civic Service
12.30pm – Street Party – Ock Street
6pm – Bun Throwing
7pm – Proms in the Park and Firework Display

Monday 4 June

10.30am walking tours
11.00am 12.00 or 2.00pm – County Hall Museum tours
4pm Gates Open – Big Screen – Queen’s Diamond Jubilee BBC Concert (Join National)
10:15pm – Lighting of the Beacon (Join National)

Tuesday 5 June
Morning – Big Screen – Service of Thanksgiving (Join National)

J D Wetherspoons Planning Application

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J D Wetherspoons plans
JD Wetherspoons have put in a planning application for a change of use of 25 High Street
J D Wetherspoons plans
from post office to public house.

Planned hours of opening are 7 am to 1:30 am.

The proposed seating area for customers extends into what was the old sorting office and so is about three times the size of the area where we used to queue for stamps.

Wetherspoons say in their application that this change will “increase shopper/visitor footfall in this part of town and re-introduce life and vibrancy to a prominent building that is currently a ‘dead’ unit.”

The full plans are at … VWHDC Planning