Monthly Archives: June 2018

Get Together, Hear Solemn and Sing Joyful Music in Abingdon

In reverse order, latest to earliest …

There will be a second Great Get Together on 24th June. Sue says “we are hoping for a lovely day like last year, showing what a welcoming community Abingdon is.”

“This year we are also picking up on the work Jo Cox did on the problem of loneliness, and we are delighted that the Archway Foundation will be part of the day.”
Solemn
The Abingdon and District Music Society will be performing “Missa Solemnis” on 16th June at St Helen and St Katherine.
Joyful
There is also a ‘Joyful Singing Workshop’ on Tuesday 12th June thanks to Oxfordshire MIND.

Upcoming Super Nit Book Signing

Nitpicking
There will be a book signing of Super Nit Rescue Mission on Sunday June 10th 4pm at the Willow’s Shake on Stert Street. Thanks to Steve for sending the picture.

It is an illustrated book for children (4 – 7 years) written by two Abingdon mums, Julia E K Thomas and Julia King. Julia and Julia set up Juplicate Books in 2018 to showcase their creative writing.

Join Harry and Super Nit on a hair-raising adventure, you’ll be itching to find out more!.

The book is a fun way to make children aware of nits and head lice. You can find more about nits at http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/head-lice.html

Abingdon Traditional Morris Lego

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Fat Face Morris
In the window of Fat Face in Abingdon can be seen a Lego version of the Mayor of Ock Street Ceremony. It shows the newly elected Mayor of Ock Street being chaired shoulder high from Coopers Lane into Ock Street. In front of him is held a cow’s head, a trophy won in a fight between Ock Street and the rest of the town in 1700. The elected Mayor becomes the head man of the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers for the next year.
Fat Face Morris
In 2018 two other sides will be there in Abingdon to dance on June 16th along Ock Street, and in the town centre – before and after the election of the Mayor of Ock Street. They include Bampton Traditional Morris, founded approximately 600 years ago, and the Berkshire Bedlam Morris Dancers, founded in 1977.

The 4th side on the Supermorris box, called Stealing Sheep, could be the alter-ego of the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers who appeared in this video …

Stealing Sheep – Apparition from Dougal Wilson on Vimeo.

25 years of DAWN – Didcot, Abingdon & Wantage Talking Newspaper

DAWN at 25
On Saturday the Didcot, Abingdon & Wantage Talking newspaper celebrated their 25th Anniversary.

The charity provides weekly audio recordings of the Didcot Abingdon and Wantage newspapers, free of charge, for the blind and partially sighted.

Volunteers read (and record) the local newspapers on a Wednesday evening every week, and listeners receive a USB memory stick in the post a couple of days later. Programmes can also be heard on their website, where there is a history of the charity at http://www.dawntn.org.uk/AboutDawnHistory.htm
DAWN at 25
The celebration featured special guest Chris Davies, a finalist in The Big Painting Challenge on the BBC this year.

The Oxford Mail had an article about the Talking Newspapers 25th anniversary including pictures of a recording http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/16263764.Talking_newspaper_celebrates_25th_anniversary/.

Thanks to John for the pictures used here.