At the end of another busy week for the Abingdon Town Bus with 72 trips through South Abingdon, 48 trips to Abingdon Community Hospital, and 24 to the Peachcroft shops in North Abingdon, the town bus conked out and had to be towed away – just before the final part of the last circuit.
Round the corner there was already a replacement in position, run by Heyfordian – a Scottish sounding bus company.
At St Helen’s Church this morning Mr Crusty the Donkey was there to help with a big Nativity Tableau with lots of young children dressed as angels and shepherds.
On the Market Place there were two other donkeys, Jack and Charlie, also from the Island Farm Donkey Sanctuary.
I see in the recently published book about Pollyanne, from the sanctuary, that Jack arrived very poorly and emaciated, and it was touch and go whether he would make it through the night. His pulling through was a turning point in setting up the sanctuary.
Polyanne was not in town today but has been on previous occasions. There are two pictures inside the book of Polyanne at the Reynolds Way shops. She walked from there to a church service at Preston Road Community Centre. It’s a busy time of year for donkeys.
Abingdon Lock chamber is being renovated.
John sent me a picture of some heavy bags of gravel being lowered into the chamber at the far end.
Barriers are there to stop more water getting in. Floods may have hampered progress but work is underway again.
The lock chamber floor is now covered with bags of gravel. (More pictures soon of the renovation.)
Spike sent me a picture of ‘Cold start on the 12/12/12 Masefield Playing Field‘
I got myself a free souvenir parking ticket with 12:12 12 Dec 12.
The Abingdon Herald of Wednesday, December 12, 2012 led with the story that there will be new traffic lights at the top of Spring Road.
Adfas (Abingdon and District Fine Art Society) had a talk on Beau Brummell at the Guildhall, and there is a production of Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters at Abingdon College for three days.
During the day I saw one of the Solar Powered Christmas Trees being attached to Goffs, thanks to Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council. I believe they had a budget for 17 energy saving trees.
12/12/12 ended as it began – cold and frosty. The final picture is taken from the walkway across Abingdon Weir.
Did anybody notice anything to make a remarkable day of what was a remarkable date?