Film – Pantomime – Film ( It’s All in Abingdon )

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Film Pantomime Film
The Unicorn Cinema has taken a break after its first successful run. In the meantime the ABCD Film Society have a film every Thursday evening at the Health and Wellbeing Centre, Audlett Drive.

Upcoming films can be seen at http://abfilms.org.uk/.

Doctor Strangelove was last week. This week is Force Majeure, a Swedish film that examines some of the angst of family life. On January 18 is Truffaut’s Les Quatre Cent Coups (The 400 Blows), possibly the best known French film of the post-war era. It will be introduced by Ann Miller, and is pictured above. Then on 25th January Taxi Tehran (made by Jafar Panahi) films people talking about life in Iran from the back of a Taxi.
Film Pantomime Film
Meanwhile, The Unicorn Theatre will be used for Aladdin, by the Abingdon Drama Club starting this Friday.
Film Pantomime Film
Then the Unicorn Cinema will be back with more films at the Unicorn from 22nd January.
Film Pantomime Film
I enjoyed how the staff dressed for the occasion. This was Paddington II, which I really enjoyed. It was even better than Paddington I.

Christmas Tree Recycling

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Christmas trees
I watched people bring their Christmas trees to the town council staff on the Market Place today. One staff member would snip off any awkward branches, and the other would plunge the tree into a hopper.
Christmas trees
From out of the shredder, debris was blasted into a pile of wood chip and needles in the back of the council truck. It had been reduced back to basics which could be recycled as mulch.
Christmas trees
There were others like me who stopped to watch, for a minute or two, what has become an annual ritual in Abingdon on Thames.

This year Christmas Tree recycling coincided with Twelfth Night – which is either the 5th or 6th of January, depending where you start counting from.