Mary Cadogan is organising the Abingdon Poppy appeal again this year, and has started a blog called Abingdon Poppy Appeal. I see on it that the school boxes have poppy wrist bands as an option.
Also the Importance of Being Earnest is on at the Unicorn Theatre from Wednesday – produced by Breakaleg Productions.
The waiting was over. Today, the big day had arrived for the Guildhall Wedding Fair.
Outside there was a chauffeur with two stately Rolls Royce wedding cars.
Inside the recently refurbished state rooms were as much on display as the exhibitors.
The Roysse Room could be the icing on the cake.
Both these buses are the X2 service connecting Oxford and Didcot via Abingdon, but the company and livery have changed in the last two weeks.
The X2 used to be run by the Red Oxford Bus Company based in Oxford, but is now run by the Blue Thames Travel based in Wallingford.
Thames Travel were bought by the Go Ahead Group in May 2011, which brought it under the management of the Oxford Bus Company which the Go Ahead Group bought in 1994.
It means that both the X2 and the 32 Oxford-Abingdon-Didcot services are run by Thames Travel. The main difference between these services, if any visitor asks, is that the X2 stops in South Abingdon and goes that way round, and the 32 stops on Bridge Street and goes that way round.
There is an X32 but it goes direct from Oxford to Didcot missing Abingdon. Do not make that mistake!
It is a few years since there has been a Balloon Release seen on this blog.
Last week at the Dragon Boat racing there was a balloon release.
This was done as a fund raising event for St Nics Church and was organised by Lorraine, Tim, Pauline, and John. The church needs to find new ways of raising money to make ends meet and this was one idea. St Nics give such a service to the town centre being open for visitors so even if you didn’t buy a balloon they would still value donations.
Thanks to Mike for the pictures and wife Kathy (of Centre-Stage fame in Coxeter House) for the balloons.