The town seemed nice and busy this morning with lots of people out shopping.

At the Market Place end the friends of Stowford House were selling jumble to raise money to give learning disabled children outings and the like. From what I gather they have failed in their attempts to save most of Stowford House, a mile away from Abingdon in Shippon. It is a hostel for learning disabled, and now has only five clients.

Next to them some people were promoting the Alpha Course with the help of this car. The Alpha course is a chance to find out about Christianity through guided discussion. David Frost did a documentary about it some years ago.

And at the other end of the Market Place, Phil from the Abbey Baptists was letting rip with some open air preaching. I was given a tract saying ‘Time to think about the Big Questions?‘