I spotted this spider in a new web in Abingdon town centre this evening. Older webs, like old rags, were tangled behind.
But where is this spider’s lair?
It looks well positioned for moths and insects attracted by night lights.
Before going away for our summer holidays the red white and blue flowers brightened the town centre.
Since coming back there have been a lot of sunny days, and the flower displays continue looking good, thanks to the hard work of the town council staff.
Team GB are doing amazingly well in the Olympics. It is all about peaking at the right time, every four years. Team GB have got that down to a fine art. That and a lot of targeted lottery funding.
The flowers along Thames Street peak every year – not just an Olympic year.
The bombing of Hiroshima on August, 6, 1945 was followed by the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9 1945.
At the Abingdon war memorial on August 6th 2016, members of the Abingdon Peace Group were joined in a vigil on Saturday by someone who grew up in Hiroshima.
Katsuaki Inoue is a research scientist living in Abingdon with his wife and young son. When he heard that there was a vigil to mark the 71st anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima he rushed down to the war memorial to join in.
Katsuaki said, “My father was living in Hiroshima in 1945, but was fortunately in a village a few miles away on August 6th when the bomb was dropped. I am so touched that people in Abingdon still remember what happened. Thank you!”
Thanks to Sven for this …
The Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center in Abingdon hosted a Donald Trump presidential campaign event.
Mr Trump was reported by the Herald Courier as saying that “Coal mining jobs have been taken away and we need to bring them back.”