Against Breast Cancer, an Abingdon based charity, are funding research into a cure for breast cancer and created a great spectacle of pink in town today.
There were activities on the Market Place.
And a lot of shops had taken part by dressing their window in pink.
Some even dressed in pink as well.
Some of the streets in Abingdon got their first waste collection under the new regime on Thursday. Thanks to Our Man in Lettings for this picture of his street afterwards.Here in East / West St Helen Street we got our first this Friday morning .
There are three bins: small green for food, large green for recyclable, and black for non-recyclable. The food waste was straight forward. The rest needed thinking about. The only thing we had definitely non-recyclable was polystyrene and crisp packets. Containers and cardboard and paper were definitely recyclable. But that left a grey area between.
Quite a few of our neighbours have exchanged the wheelie bins they were first given for sacks . The delivery company did not get it right in quite a few cases. Pink sacks are non-recyclable. But I notice quite a few put out green sacks instead (recyclable) and they have not been collected.
Not everybody has even realised there has been a regime change. On Lombard Street, some people put out their black bags on Tuesday and their old green boxes on Thursday. These have now got a yellow label with the heading “Verdant – South Oxfordshire District Council – We do not collect household waste from black bags.…”
Suprisingly, being so near, we hear very little noise from the fair. We heard far more when we lived on Tithe Farm – which is some distance away.
During the days of the fair, West St Helen Street becomes an oasis of calm – with no through traffic. But this morning, with the fair cleared, it was back to normal traffic patterns.
(Heyfordian have taken over running the Abingdon Town bus service from Whites Coaches and their orange and white coach is a frequent sight.)
The fair was blessed with two rain free evenings this year.
Crowds were good on Monday. I wasn’t around on Tuesday. But on Monday most of the rides were doing well …
Twister near China Diner.
The dodgems near Bellingers
and Froggit in front of the new shop
New to me this year was ‘It’s The Roller’ at a prime location in front of The White Horse pub at the far end of Ock Street.