After the last one disappeared, the secret crocheter quickly created a new post-box topper for the Market Place.
The Market Place was a popular destination today, with people drawn to the Market Place by the mostly sunny weather and the variety of stalls selling local goods at the Local Excellence Market.
It included: beer, biscuits, bread, burgers, cakes, cheese, chillies, fruit and vegetables, gin, gluten-free foods, honey, Indian food, pies, artificial flowers, glassware and ceramics, jewellery, knitted toys, photographs, soap, upcycled bags, and wooden toys.
One local trader told me that Saturday afternoons are as busy as the morning now. Is that partly because of the popularity of coffee shops? They have transformed the centre from a mostly retail space to a place for people to meet up with friends and family.
I have just returned from Germany. I was struck by how immaculately clean Germany was. On the motorways and in the towns there was not a piece of litter or rubbish. In 1942 a law was passed to keep Germany clean. Now the culture of Kehrwoche (sweep week) is still an important part of life today for the Germans. However, returning to the UK I was aware of how dirty it is. Even in Abingdon there is litter lying everwhere. The UK is the dirty old man of Europe. The people with me on the German tour wondered how foreign tourists find dirty Britain.
Thank you Backstreeter for more great photos from the River Ock walk.
It’s really sad about the litter here. There are plenty of bins, but some people seem to think they are too ‘cool’ to use them.
IMHO its simple. Laws need to be made and the penalty’s for breaking those laws need to be harsh and rigorously enforced. Have you ever been to Singapore? No litter, no graffiti whatsoever, none of those black chewing gum cv infected health hazards on the paths. In the UK we are too worried about someone going 27mph in what is now a 25mph restricted zone (but was probably a 55 mph zone 25 years ago). Speeding is also not acceptable. My point is that speeding is massively enforced. Littering is not.