For the last few weeks there has been scaffolding up in the front of Abingdon Baptist Church.
The blue and white front, of this Grade II listed building, has been repainted with a classical stone colour. A glass main door will be added.
The church (as in the members and not the building) are still fund raising for further improvements to the building.
The Swan Uppers arrived at Abingdon Bridge on Friday July 24th after a five day swan census beginning at Sunbury on Monday.
Friday was predicted as having “a month’s worth of rain in one day”.
There were half a dozen people waiting on Abingdon Bridge when the skiffs arrived at around 4:40pm. I don’t know if they caught the Abingdon swans. There was not the usual toast to the Queen under Abingdon Bridge. They hurried to get indoors for a drink at the Nags Head.
The new world record is on The Guinness World Records.
It can also be read about it on The BBC , Abingdon Herald, BT.com …
Skye Hall took part in the children’s craze of weaving small colourful bands into bracelets, but took it to another level while undergoing treatment for cancer. He had the dream to make a loom band long enough to stretch to the moon. His courage and dream has seen his family and friends this week taking the world record.
Today there was a fun day at the Abingdon Business Park, and the presentation of the certificate by The Mayor, Helen Pighills, who has made Blue Skye Thinking one of her charities.
They are continuing to fund raise so other young lives can be saved.
The new Polish Food shop at the top of West St Helen Street has started to stock the shelves. I am not sure how many Polish people live in Abingdon, but as always we locals are up for giving it a go.
Using Google Translate I see:
Polish Food Shop = Polski Sklep Food
You’re Welcome = Serdecznie Zapraszamy
Opening Soon !!! = Wkrótce Otwarcie !!!
Some other useful vocabulary:
Yes: Tak (as in tick-‘tack’)
No: Nie (as in ‘nyeh’-nyeh-na-na-na)
OK: Dobrze (‘dough’ plus a ‘b’ then ‘she’)
Good day: Dzien dobry (‘jean’ and ‘dough’ plus ‘bree’ like the cheese)
Hi: Czesc (use this one on friends only: ‘che sh ch’ but run it all together as one sound)
Bye: Czesc (works like ‘aloha’ or ‘ciao’ or ‘salut’, making informal comings and goings easy)
Good bye: Do widzenia (‘dough’ and ‘wid zen ya’ comes close enough)