At the Fire Station today there was a second book sale – following on from the one last summer. Funds raised go to the Fire Fighters Charity. It will probably be the last such book sale – for a while at least, because all the remaining books are to be donated to other fund raising causes.

Traffic was congested in Ock Street this morning, but if there had been a fire then the engine was already to go. Over the last couple of weeks the more serious fires attended by the Abingdon firemen have been in places like Wallingford, Didcot, and Oxford – so the message must be getting through Fit smoke alarms …