I’ve just moved work and now sit next to some people who talk in phrases like “Joined up” and “Blue Sky” thinking.

To my mind this blue door looks all the more striking because of the red leaves above it. This door is at the intersection of Bath Street and Broad Street.

There is a letting agency in Abingdon called Blue Door letting, run by Greg. His office backs onto the Old Gaol on Bridge Street, and you can see his style of “Blue sky” thinking with property descriptions like “This is the sort of apartment 007 would live in!”

Greg also sits in the same building as the Music Centre, and the separate Language Centre. According to Greg, it looks like the lady running the Language Centre hasn’t returned from her holiday. And so it looks like “Au Revoir” “Auf Wiedrsehen” and “Goodbye” to the Language Centre.

A few weeks ago John Reid , the Home Secretary, was running out of prison places. Among the many suggestions I have heard for the Old Gaol is to return it to its original function. Perhaps a bit too “Blue Sky” and not “Joined up”.

I also heard, and this is only tittle-tattle and heresay, so don’t quote me, that an executive member at the County Council said a bomb should be put under Abingdon’s Old Gaol. Very “Blue Sky” I must admit.

I wonder in what “Blue-Sky” ways Greg could describe the Old Gaol as a property.

(As the final picture shows, some of the Christmas lights are now up and we do have a blue sky over the Old Gaol this morning.)

We are expecting news of the Old Gaol fairly soon.