All Hallows is a religious festival where the dead are remembered on the night before All Saints Day. Before then, it could have been a pre-Christian festival. Halloween has become a time for dressing up, spooky parties and trick-and-treating.
It is also a chance for people in Abingdon to get creative with wool, wood, and pumpkins.
The postbox on the Market place has been decorated with a spooky topper.
The Blue Boar has been made to resemble a House of Horrors with wood from Oxford Wood Recycling.
Pumpkins of different sizes and colours are there on display for people to get creative at Fabulous flowers.
……and there are only 2 bats left on the railings on St. Helen’s wharf.
Maybe Batman has been Rob(b)in(g) them!
It’d be nice if someone could catch the culprit and cable tie them to the railings upside down.
…or is that a bit too extreme?
Not extreme..I would willing help you!!
@thelady Oh yeah? Probably “the youths” again was it?! Better hunt them all down and kick them out of town.
If you didn’t find it attractive, hanging things from the railing would be considered littering of fly tipping
I wonder whether someone has taken a bat to give to a child. I don’t know. What I do know is that I can be quick to judge before I know the whole story….
Oh I’m sure that is indeed the story behind their disappearance. The thing that annoyed me was the fact that every time I walked past there were people photographing them and that by taking them away someone was removing at least part of that opportunity from a wider audience.
Part of their downfall was perhaps their cute attractiveness, I think if whoever made them were to start taking orders they’d have a long list of customers.