Monthly Archives: July 2011

Ripples from a new camera

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My wife has not had a camera for quite some time, but bought one a couple of weeks ago. Since then she has been taking pictures – mostly of ripples. This is how they look on her facebook album ‘watery stuff’.
Ripples
We met somebody on the Market Place today who said to my wife “You must be his other half”
Ripples
That was a bit rude really. Still to a lot of people I am her other half.
Ripples
Thanks to her for the ripples. Last one is light from ripples playing on the underside of Abingdon Bridge.

Third Free Yeah Baby Music Festival

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Free Charity Concert
Today saw the third free Yeah Baby charity music festival – Abingdon’s Glastonbury.
Free Charity Concert
All through the day there was entertainment, bands, stalls, facepainting, playbus, raffles …
Free Charity Concert
It made the town a fun place to be. There were people going round with buckets collecting for the Yeah Baby charities. The music and fun carries on this evening at the Brewery Tap.

Graffiti Cleaning OX92 OX93 and OX14

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The district council has a new, clearer website – just launched this week.  The web page about Graffiti Cleaning got my attention with its practical advice …

If graffiti is on private property, the web site says,  “The owner of the property is responsible for its removal … the quicker graffiti is cleaned off, the easier it is to remove … prompt removal tends to discourage more graffiti”.
Graffiti Cleaning
There was a spate of grafitti in South Abingdon about three months ago. Most has been cleaned. Just a few examples remain. Some is on a large green box with the ID: OX092 (Preston Road near junction to Gainsborough Green) and even more on OX093 (Preston Road near junction to Cotman Close).

The district web site has a section on “Graffiti on privately owned street furniture (e.g. post boxes, telecommunications cabinets)“. They suggest contacting the owner.

Both Virgin Media and BT appear to not recognise these boxes so it would be helpful to identify the owner.  Nothing on the green box helps very much.
Graffiti Cleaning
Last section on the Vale website is “What is the district council responsible for cleaning?“.

“… its own property that may include council owned public toilets, rubbish bins and some leisure centres. To report graffiti on property owned by Vale of White Horse District Council, please contact our waste contractors Biffa by emailing admin.vale@biffa.co.uk…”

This information sign at the district council end of the Ock Valley Walk has had graffiti on it for over three months.  I have now sent an email.

Fair Trade Group

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After all the Fair Trade Comments on the post about the Abbey Fish Ponds here is a post about Fair Trade …
Fair Trade
The Chamber of Commerce’s Fair Trade group met at lunchtime to discuss re-establishing Abingdon as a Fair Trade town. There were representatives from shops, including Waitrose and The Co-op, the town council, churches, schools and general consumers.
Fair Trade
As well as planning a Fair Trade day on the Market Place on 20th August – where there are still pitches available for businesses who would like to take part (contact the Chamber), the group set up a steering committee.

On 20th August, I will be going bananas for FairTrade again. But this time I hope to be part of a bunch. Banana costumes cost from £8 and upwards on the internet.