Monthly Archives: July 2015

Polish Food Shop – opening soon

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Polish Food Shop
The new Polish Food shop at the top of West St Helen Street has started to stock the shelves. I am not sure how many Polish people live in Abingdon, but as always we locals are up for giving it a go.
Polish Food Shop
Using Google Translate I see:
Polish Food Shop = Polski Sklep Food
You’re Welcome = Serdecznie Zapraszamy
Opening Soon !!! = Wkrótce Otwarcie !!!

Some other useful vocabulary:
Yes: Tak (as in tick-‘tack’)
No: Nie (as in ‘nyeh’-nyeh-na-na-na)
OK: Dobrze (‘dough’ plus a ‘b’ then ‘she’)

Good day: Dzien dobry (‘jean’ and ‘dough’ plus ‘bree’ like the cheese)
Hi: Czesc (use this one on friends only: ‘che sh ch’ but run it all together as one sound)
Bye: Czesc (works like ‘aloha’ or ‘ciao’ or ‘salut’, making informal comings and goings easy)
Good bye: Do widzenia (‘dough’ and ‘wid zen ya’ comes close enough)

Summer Holiday Road Works pending

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School Holidays
The Drayton Road between Mill Road and the double mini roundabout will be resurfaced during the school holidays.
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From this shot near the Ladygrove Meadow (and summer fair) it does appear that the surface is cracking up. This section of road has been flooded, and had to carry more traffic than most.
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More is to come with the Morland Gardens development pending. The arguments of local people, ALL local Councillors and the local MP, Nicola Blackwood, who know the Drayton Road traffic problems, have had no effect, against this particular development.

Oxfordshire County Council need to look deeper than resurfacing to fix Drayton Road.

Holiday Reading Challenge 2015 – Record Breakers

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School Holidays
In the windows of Abingdon Library are some over sized medals, made from old vinyl records – put there as part of this summer’s reading challenge.
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The badly scratched records were donated by Oxfam in Abingdon, and the artwork added by students at Larkmead school, to encourage children to come into the library and take part in this summer’s reading challenge.

Read six books from the library during the summer holidays, and become a Record Breaker!

School Holidays are here …

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School Holidays
School Holidays are here and for those families who have not gone away already, in the first week, there was a glorious first Sunday on the Abingdon Riviera (Abbey Meadows). A new mobile coffee stall appeared and will be there through the holidays.
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The Abbey Meadows has an open air pool and a playground and a sprayground so it is the place to be on such a day. Coseners House had a party going and the music meant we were all part of the party.
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Summer can’t get much better than lounging beside the boat after a day winding up or down the River Thames.
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The Salter’s Steamer from Oxford to Abingdon now goes under the bridge at Abingdon …
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makes a turn by St Helen’s Wharf, then parks on their own quayside at the Abingdon Bridge Marine.