Today is blog action day and thousands of bloggers are writing about water. This evening’s picture shows lights and buildings reflected on the River Thames.
In the year 2000 over £50,000 was raised for the Abingdon Millennium project. It included donations from Abingdon UK and Abingdon Virginia. There is no millennium monument to show for it – no sculpture on the Market Place. Instead, the money went to help fund WaterAid projects in Ethiopia and India. I wonder how we are progressing towards the target of clean water for everybody in 2015. It sounded achievable in 2000 …
Isn’t there a millennium monument near the Abbey just before the river – the cone shaped sculpture with the silver top ?
Isn’t that monument one of the ones used by Vlad the Impaler (1431 – 1476), or does it have another function?
You’re both wrong. It is in fact one of Jean Paul Gaultier’s bra cups.
Lovely Photo!
The millenium needle did not happen until 2007 – some time after the millenium.