This baby fox was seen along Ock Street near the Bellingers Vauxhall dealer.
Fox on Ock Street
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Football, Drumming, and Football
Everybody is eagerly awaiting the Oxford United game tomorrow at Wembley. They play York in the play-off final to see if they can get back in the football league. So many people are going to Wembley from Abingdon it could be like a ghost town, and there were commemorative scarves and hats on sale in town today.
There was also a drumming workshop on the Market Place at around lunchtime. The enthusiasm of the lead drummer got a huge circle of people involved. Great fun!
And down at Southern Town Park a big football tournament was taking place. Hosted by Abingdon Youth Football Club, it had teams as young as six who swarmed round the ball, and then competitions for every year group up to age 14.
There are about one hundred teams involved over the two days of the weekend. This is down a bit on what it could have been. The Oxford game tomorrow is keeping some away.
Bargain Booze Closed
Bargain Booze has been closed for two or three days. I do not know if they have a temporary cash flow problem, have gone on holiday, or called it a day. Shelves are still stocked.
Are politicians getting younger?
Wednesday night was the Mayor Making in Abingdon. Duncan Brown, the new Mayor is both a Morris Dancer and part-time Fireman, and both were there to help. The morris dancers performed beforehand, and the Firemen helped get signatures for Duncan’s first charity fund raising event which involved throwing himself out of an aeroplane.
This is Duncan with his escourt, Sreeja, after the ceremony, saying goodbye to the ‘Honoured Guests’.
And here he is again with the new deputy mayor whose name escapes me for the moment. By the way Duncan is thirty three years old which seems quite young to me, but not so young as our new MP who is only thirty.
Are our politicians getting younger?