Up to 20 Scouts and Guides and leaders and parents helped in the first sort of the Abingdon Scouts Christmas Post on Monday at Christchurch Hall. You have until 12 noon on Thursday 16th December to post your cards in the special boxes. The second and final sort follows that evening.
I would never have got to the Well Being Centre’s Christmas Fayre if it had not been for Dr Les Clyne handing out leaflets in town to remind people it was on.
There are a number of community groups use the Well Being Centre on Audlett Drive, although its main purpose is as a day centre and help centre for elderly people.
When you walk in through the main entrance – round the back where the white social service vans are parked – there is some 2010 artwork by the ceramics group who have a workshop at the centre.
These geese are heading north. Birds normally migrate south at the start of winter. So this group must be heading back to their overnight roost.
In the second picture there are two sources of water vapor.
To the west, some newer smaller cooling towers – hardly towers at all really as they are no higher than houses – cool the water from the gas-burning Didcot B power station.
The larger cooling towers are part of the older coal-burning Didcot A power station. It only generates electricity between October and March – a peak demand period when it can run at a profit.
Didcot A will be decommissioned by 2015.
The Community Shop is being used by the Church in Abingdon next Saturday and this. It is a chance to dress up and become a part of the Nativity Scene and even feature on your own Christmas Cards in a starring role. There are many parts to be played.