Abingdon Music Centre – Music for Everybody

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Abingdon Music Centre
At the Amey Theatre this evening, groups from the Abingdon Music Centre came together to perform for each other and for friends and family. The evening began with the Community Orchestra – an orchestra for adult players of orchestral instruments at any level.
Abingdon Music Centre
There followed child and then adult guitar groups, child and then adult recorder groups, an adult Ukelele Group. Then various singing groups and choirs: Singing for Pleasure, The Afternoon Ladies’ Choir, The Morning Ladies’ Choir (shown above), and The huge Abingdon Community Choir.
Abingdon Music Centre
The evening ended with many of the performers getting on stage together to perform and sing “Can You Feel The Love Tonight.”

The Abingdon Music Centre is a charity. They run Baby and Pre School groups. They have groups with mainly retired people. They have groups for school children and adults. It is Music for Everybody.

Disappointment at Didcot Demolition Timing

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Didcot Demolition Disappointment
David Buckle, Chief Executive of the Vale of White Horse District Council, has written to RWE npower expressing his disappointment that the blow down of the three southern towers of Didcot Power Station is planned for between 3-5am on Sunday 27th July.

Given that Sun Rise is 5:17, the three cooling towers could explode unseen.

Mr Buckle has asked whether the time could be adjusted to 6am to give local families the chance to watch this once in a lifetime event.

National Sweet Pea Festival comes to Abingdon

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National Sweet Pea Show
The National Sweet Pea Society held their National Show at Millets Farm, Abingdon, last weekend. The sweet pea was introduced to the UK thanks to a Sicilian monk, Franciscus Cupani, who studied the flora of his Island, and sent seeds to this and other countries. The rest is history and “A Sweet Pea Journey through Time.”
National Sweet Pea Show
The show was located in the large marquee near the play area and farm animals.
National Sweet Pea Show
There were many sweet peas to admire – both for their paper-like blooms, and their delicate fragrance.

Open Day at The Vet

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Open Day at The Vet
I tried to imagine what Open Day at The Vet would be like beforehand. The signs had been up for some time in front of the Boundary Veterinary Centre on the Oxford Road in Abingdon. And so when TODAY arrived I went to find out.
Open Day at The Vet
I imagined that it would be a chance to look round the treatment rooms and talk to the vets. There was a little bit of that.

But mostly it was about some of the animal charities the vets and their receptionists support.
Open Day at The Vet
The Cats Protection League were there with some of their cats and kittens.
Open Day at The Vet
They also had a stall.

There was an information board for another Charity called IAPWA (International Aid for the Protection of Animal).

Some people brought their dogs and were relaxing with Tea and Cakes, or having a go on the raffle or other stalls.
Open Day at The Vet
There were also two sheep, and a ferret.

So it was partly a chance to look round the clinic, and partly a fete raising money and awareness for animal charities.