Cyclists were gathering on Abingdon Market Place.
Reflections on the River Thames were crystal clear.
At St Helen’s Church the 8.00 am Holy Communion was already underway – the first of 3 Sunday services.
Fishing had been going fairly well until the first narrow boat appeared, followed by a gaggle of geese who insisted that this was just the spot they wanted to be.
Conkers were falling. A couple of tents could be seen near the trees and bushes.
On the other side, on the dewy grass of Abingdon Vale Cricket Club, a caravan club had come to visit.
2016 has been a good season and in 2017 caravanners will be able to watch Abingdon Vale playing in Division 1. Abingdon Vale Cricket Club have been promoted.
Lovely peaceful scenes. However, on the other side of the world Russia has ordered the evacuation of 40 million civilians in an exercise to prepare for nuclear war. Also Russia is building massive nuclear bunkers that can shelter 12 million civilians. In the last cold war I was a member of the Civil Defense. We were told that there were bunkers but only for the upper echelons and people they considered necessary to service. Ordinary civilians would be left to perish
Are the Russians worried about the North Koreans? NK is the current rogue state – though Russia’s leadership is fairly robust…
Janet – I remember reading some of those early pamphlets provided by HMG through CD; as I recall it, the basic advice was put some sticky brown paper over the window and get under the table. I wondered at the time how a table would help given that smaller bombs had demolished Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
We are lucky to have survived the Cold War and now to be able to enjoy Backstreeters idyllic pictures.
Hence the need for Trident Janet !
I would have thought the Russians were far more concerned with the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president – God forbid!
Just spotted the ubiquitous foreign fisherman illegally taking home his dinner !
Happy, lovely pictures, Backstreeter. Thank you
Where does ‘just spotted’ end and ‘voyeur’ start…
Poor fisherman must think he has a stalker.
Equally the poor fish must think there’s no policing of those hoisting all their mates out of the river… oh hold on a minute there isn’t!
Fortunately for the ‘poor fish’, they are not having a [dull] online running commentary on their daily activities.
Got to go, preparing my fish and crayfish pie and I’m flat out of saffron….
Seems to me the fish are online… his ‘line’. Perhaps they are too busy ‘streaming’ to post here though.
Your Saffron reference reminded me of the song Mellow Yellow by Donovan, can’t get that out of my head now… thanks.
Black flag are you weird or something? Definition of voyeur is ” a person who gains sexual pleasure from watching others when they’re naked or engaged in sexual activity”
The only thing being stalked is the poor old fish that’s going end up in his pot! Just a thought it’s not you fishing is it ?