Here are pictures taken near the Wootton Road shops in Abingdon earlier in the day …

Topsport has one window with footballs and St George flags, and one window with things that fly, and cricket, and tennis. Wimbledon is also on.

A knitted crochet post box cover.

The old Fitzharrys community rooms- probably a private residence now.

In the town centre, the St George Flag is above the County Hall.

I was on the late shift and the people I help support had made St George flags and stuck them on straws. One suggested I make a flag with 3 lions and the word ‘England’. My flag looked more like three ducks but I waved it as they waved their George crosses during the match. In the end England won 4-0 and are through to their first semi final since this blog was started, in 2006 – a year of high hopes when England lost 1-3 in the World Cup quarter finals to Portugal.

A young man shouted from an open car window at me, as I cycled home, ‘It’s coming home’. The same phrase ‘It’s coming home’, from the Three Lions song, was being chanted and sung by people going come, via the Back Street, after I got home.