Crossing the road safely at a Puffin crossing

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Puffin Crossing Training
The road works at the Wootton Road Roundabout were finished a couple of months ago. The intention was to make the roundabout safer for cyclists, after a number of accidents involving cyclists. There was also a campaign by parents and schools three or four years ago to make the Dunmore Road Crossing safer at this roundabout .
Puffin Crossing Training
But the orange bags remain.
Puffin Crossing Training
Training material about ‘Crossing the road safely at a Puffin crossing’ is still being displayed.

I did see a car slow down and wave a parent and child across even though the lights are not yet turned on.

Formal Wild Flowers Beds

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formal wild flowers beds
Back in December 2013 the turf was cut away. Then in April a wild flowers area was treated and created in the Abbey Meadows by the Carbon Cutters and friends.
formal wild flowers beds
There are now the first of the flowers with walkways between – mowed in quite a formal way.

Ten Year Leisure Contract

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It was announced earlier this month that GLL, a large company that runs leisure facilities in many places in London, and round the country, including South Oxfordshire, has won the ten year contract to run leisure facilities on behalf of the Vale of White Horse District Council and South Oxfordshire from September 1st 2014.

GLL began life as Greenwich Leisure Limited in 1992, and merged with Nexus Community Leisure in 2011, and will now run over 120 facilities. So they are big.
Lesiure Contract
That means that the 2 facilities in Abingdon: The Vale of White Horse Leisure Centre, currently run by Active Nation,
Lesiure Contract
and the Outdoor Pool, currently run by SOLL, will come under the control of GLL.

(Management of Tilsley Park, Abingdon’s other facility, was previously taken over by Abingdon School.)

District Councils are increasingly in the business of managing contracts with specialist companies on behalf of council tax payers, rather than running services themselves. The new contract could be good news to Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council who currently subsidise the open air pool to the tune of over £40K a year.
Lesiure Contract
Anyway, good to see that the outdoor pool was a good temperature yesterday.

World Cup cup cakes and Two Town Criers

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World Cup Cupcakes
The World Cup Cupcake stall opened outside Cancer Research UK at 10 am this morning and were almost sold out when I visited an hour later.
World Cup Cupcakes
Just a few cakes left to show.
World Cup Cupcakes
Due to an administrative error there were two Town Criers about in town today.

As far as I know they were never both in the same place at the same time, and did not come to blows. Their duties included announcing:

  • The Queen’s birthday
  • Market Place Craft Fair
  • Carswell School Fete
  • Lace Making demo in the museum attic.