What’s on This Week – Posters seen at Mostly Books, Abingdon Library …

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On Wednesday afternoon: ADFAS have a talk on ‘Old Father Thames – The River in Art’, at the Guildhall.

On Wednesday evening : ‘How can we make Transition real?’ at St Ethelwolds.

On Thursday: ‘The clothes of an ordinary woman in the seventeenth century’ at the Northcourt Centre Hall.

On Saturday: a Christmas Bazaar at Christchurch – all proceeds to N.S.P.C.C.

And on Saturday: a rival Christmas Bazaar at Long Furlong Community Centre in aid of Long Furlong Buggy Club.

On Saturday evening: a once in approximately five year opportunity to hear a live concert of Mozart’s Requiem in Abingdon at St Helen and St Katharine School.

Children in Need, and Philippines Disaster Appeal – This Weekend

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The annual Children in Need charity event took place yesterday – where the BBC devotes the evening’s broadcasting, and many celebrities devote their time, to raising money for Children in Need. There were probably lots of fun events in schools and work places in Abingdon to raise money for Children in Need. I did see The Kings Head and Bell had a Chilli eating contest.

Today (the morning after) shoppers going to Waitrose in Abingdon were met by Rotary Club members with buckets for the Philippines Typhoon Haiyan appeal. There were also buckets in a number of other shops.

Scouts Cake Stall and Children’s Roundabout on the Market Place

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On the Market Place this morning there was a cake stall and tombola run by the scouts.

37 scouts and explorers from Oxfordshire are going to the 23rd World Scout Jamboree 2015 in Japan to join with 30,000 scouts from all around the world. The cake stall is just one of many events to help raise money to pay for the trip which will be a once in a lifetime experience.

There was also a children’s roundabout on the Market Place. There used to be a regular Saturday roundabout until about a year ago but this one looks different.

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British Legion Abingdon – Weekly Meat Draw

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Last Saturday we went to the Royal British Legion in Abingdon for a concert. The concert was interrupted at 10pm by the weekly meat draw – a raffle where bottles of wine, and joints of meat are the prizes. I think I heard that the meat came from Dews Meadow Farmshop in East Hanney, who were there today on the Market Place as part of the Farmers Market.

We won some  pork  – the best we had tasted in a long time, and went back for more today.

(The British Legion are happy to welcome new members. I think its just over £20 a year for membership. They have very reasonably priced drinks and a weekly meat draw. )