Belindas Jewellery Box in West St Helen Street has started the first of a number of craft workshops in the shop
First one is a henna craft course.
For more information see Belindas Jewellery Box on facebook
Belindas Jewellery Box in West St Helen Street has started the first of a number of craft workshops in the shop
First one is a henna craft course.
For more information see Belindas Jewellery Box on facebook
Hijack Warning!
Sorry Folks, but I’m suffering insomnia re. the appalling ‘Art Fart’ despoiling the riverbank in front of Torremolinos-on-Thames (formerly known as The Old Goal).
During daylight hours it looks like something the builders didn’t bother to clear away and after sunset it lights-up to advertise Abingdon as the Turkish Berber/Barber Capital of Southern England.
Approached from Culham a stranger might think that the neon monstrosity was the council’s invitation to the Blackpool of the Southern Counties.
Art … Art … well … it doesn’t take much to outwit our current Planning Departments that something/anything whatsoever would be acceptable to the electorate. The ‘planning-gurus’ live on Planet Flock-Wallpaper.
That Fart-Work pollutes Abingdon within its eye-line.
My challenge to backstreeter … a gentlehombre of considerable photographic skills …. is to publish a photograph, on this blog, of the offending carbuncle in such a way that makes it look as though it has any aesthetic merit whatsoever.
This, I think, may beyond even his considerable skills.
Pick up the glove, backstreeter …
A soft-focus sepia effect perhaps?
I really like the piece! Adds a good bit of colour to the dreary looking town centre!
I think that Abingdon will become the Torremolinos-on-Thames. The Vale have been making plans to build 1200 houses on the Dalton Barracks Site. With the 1000 odd extra houses in North Abingdon It will be virtually impossible to park anywhere in Town. As there will never be a diamond interchange built in North Abingdon we will h ave to plan a safari to Tesco as all the traffic will be entering Abingdon via the March interchange and the Tesco Roundabout. Will it become like the infamous Exeter bypass where entrepreneurial traders will sell ice creams, papers and coffee to the people trapped in their cars at the Tesco Roundabout?
the Old Goal Serviced Apartments are certainnly an attraction at a price…the number of Turkish Barbers with their garish lights is appalling …how on earth was thi approved?
Seriously, an independent local business tries something a bit different to presumably increase their own trade but that will also potentially bring more people in to town and the response they get is a ridiculous moan about a piece of public art, the same old vaguely xenophobic comments about Turkish barbers and the usual traffic and new housing gripes.
I’d just like to say well done Belindas, good luck with the new venture.
That was a proper thread-hijack. I do hope people support the local businesses that they say they want in Abingdon.