The Abingdon Sea Cadets were selling poppies in town today, as they were last Saturday. This year Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday overlap on 11th November so I expect there will be just the one big ceremony round the War Memorial.
Also in town were lots of scouts from the 2nd Abingdon Scout Group.
Some were collecting money in buckets. One young scout told me that their building had a big crack and might fall down.
They also had a cake stall, and were selling tickets for their annual firework display next Saturday. For once the Saturday Abingdon firework displays do not overlap. Tonight at Culham Park gates open at 4:30 and fireworks begin at 7. Next Saturday 10th November (for the scouts) gates open at 6:30 at Long Furlong Community Centre (free parking is at Tilsley Park) and fireworks begin about an hour later but I’m never sure so usually get there early.
wonder if the abingdon scouts let atheist children join? – kind of hoping the bigotry a local branch showed on the news recently was isolated.
Yes they do – my children go and are heavily athiest! Although there is a hope that the scouts and cubs will attend church services they are not required to.