David Melling Exhibition

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David Melling Exhibition
The work of artist and children’s story maker, David Melling, are currently showing at Abingdon Museum as part of the exhibition Drawing Stories; Fairy Tales & Wildlife.
David Melling Exhibition
The exhibition includes a display case loaded with David’s books.
David Melling Exhibition
There are also some drawing called Lockdown Wood. They are intricate bulbous and spiny tree-like structures with bird houses. David created them during the empty days of lockdown.
David Melling Exhibition
The largest part of the exhibition shows small coloured pencil bird drawings and larger charcoal and pencil bird and animal drawings. David Mellings lives in Abingdon and is often to be seen drawing and signing books in Abingdon’s book shops.

The exhibition can be seen at Abingdon Museum: Tuesday – Sunday , 10 am – 4 pm , until 26th September 2021.

Last drone shot of Kingsgate development. First unit sold.

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Kings Gate
This drone shot was taken from Daniel’s last video of the Kingsgate development, filmed two weeks ago. Since then the drone has been lost in the Oxford Canal.
Kings Gate
I did ask Daniel how much a new drone cost and he said ‘too much’.
Kings Gate
I cycled by the Kingsgate development this evening and was surprised how quickly and how green the grass has grown mid summer.
Kings Gate
Traffic lights are still in place while the slip lane to the new entrance is laid.
Kings Gate
The interactive sales map of the development shows that unit 5 is the first one to be sold. Units 1,2,4,6,7, and 192 are ‘For Sale’. The rest are for the future.

Wellbeing Walks, Plant Sale, Electric Vehicle Roadshow, and Ethelwold’s Feast.

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Whats On
Viv Boorman says there is a lot of publicity about the benefits of walking and she wants people to know about the Wellbeing Walks that happen on Mondays in Abingdon. New people would be very welcome.
Whats On
Steve , will not be opening his garden for the second year running. It was a difficult decision but anybody who has been there will know that there are lots of plants but not much open space for people to easily mingle whilst socially distancing. There will however be a plant sale in the front.
Whats On
The County Council’s Park and Charge project are bringing a roadshow of events to Abingdon on 14th August, helping people find out more about electric vehicles (EV) and giving them a chance to test drive one themselves. Attendees will be able to ask questions to EV experts, chat to local EV drivers and check out a range of models. More information at this link.
Whats On
Also I heard that there was an open garden event at St Ethelwold’s House. August 3rd is the feast day of St Ethelwold, and so here is a picture of the house, after the event, on the feast day.

Monday Morning Milkshake

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Willowshake
In October 2017 Willow Shake opened in Stert Street and today they moved to larger premises in Bury Street. They have been decorating over the last few weeks.
Willowshake
Inside there is a check floor like an American diner, a sofa, and some wood tables and chairs. The one table outside will be added to in time.
Willowshake
They serve milkshakes in a huge number of flavours, as well as smoothies and hot drinks. Lots of people stopped to take a look at the new place, and quite a few came inside to say how good the new place looked.