The ‘Share a Poem’ poetry group usually meets at St Ethelwolds on the first Wednesday of the month and they did intend to have the theme of ‘Fools and Folly‘. The April 1st meeting was cancelled – as was April’s Fools Day by common consent. Then some of the group met virtually using Zoom. I could not make it as I was at work but would have liked to have been there.
The Quakers, first Thursday evening of the month meeting at St Ethelwolds, has also decided to use Zoom to bring people together.
I gather that Zoom and Skype and Whatsapp and Facetime are all being used for video calls and meetings. At work I am supporting people with learning disabilities, and they are currently not allowed visits, or their usual range of activities such as: shopping, gym, day centre, craft workshops, church, bingo, pub etc. There are Easy Read guides to help explain what and why this is all happening. Those with iPads can use facetime and there are laptops with Zoom and Skype for others.
Youtube is being used for live streaming and recordings. Nicky Thornton will be launching her latest book The Cut-Throat Cafe on Thursday, April 2nd using a youtube live stream . It should have happened at Mostly Books.
As one would expect, the meetings of the Abingdon Camera Club have been suspended, but we are still active. We’ve had an internet meeting on the use of Adobe Lightroom editing software using a programme called ‘Gotomeeting’.
Again using the internet with email, we are going to have a Virtual Competition and Members will vote on the uploaded images.
http://www.abingdoncameraclub.org
http://www.peterdelehar.photos
I’ve found some wonderful “walk through” videos on Youtube for museums and galleries – well worth a look.
Not sure if this applies to us, but apart from non collection now of small electrical items, I understand that brown bin collections might be suspended?
Direcly from VOWH web site:
Updated Friday 3 April
Most waste collections are running normally. There is some disruption to our garden waste collections this week. Residents are asked to leave them out for 3 days and we will aim to get back and empty them. if this si not possible after three days please bring them back in and we will empty them next time it is scheduled.
Many thanks BykerRode – I was originally looking at the Oxford CC site rather than VOWH…my bad!
If people want a quick starting-point for info re local services of all kinds – from mental health to take-aways (maybe quite closely linked on reflection!) try https://abingdon.help/
And if you find anything on there that is wrong, please point it out to the email address on the Home page.