We Plough the Fields and Scatter


At Trinity yesterday we had the annual Harvest Festival. Most of the food donations were loaded into a car and taken to ‘Asylum Welcome’ – who need all the food they can get. Refugee numbers are up because of the war in Syria.

Rev’d Richard said there had been a good harvest this year with a wet spring followed by a dry summer.

Round the church were far more flowers than usual as part of a Harvest Flower Festival. Each display had a text … “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”

Walking in fields yesterday, after the service, we saw Maize in abundance.

But for the UK inshore fleet – fishing boats mostly under 10 metres in length which operate in coastal waters – fish stocks are at historically low levels.

Abingdon Business Promotion on the Market Place


A number of Abingdon businesses could be seen outside their normal premises on the Market Place on Saturday. It is a chance to meet potential new customers. There was Dream Doors who can transform you kitchen, and Galaxy TechnO who sell electronic devices and accessories in East St Helen Street – and will buy your old for cash.

Can Do Martial arts academy also swapped their Dojo on Audlett Drive for a gazebo.

And among others The Complementary Health Care Practice had a day out from 94 Ock Street with their demo skeleton. Their practice includes a dazzling array of therapies: Massage , Osteopathy, Reiki, Bowen Therapy, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Reflexology and Aromatherapy.

Abingdon Camera Club Photo Competition 2013


The Abingdon Camera Club photo competition normally takes place during the Abingdon Arts Festival – which did not happen this year. 

So the camera club have run it later in the year. The best entries have been displayed for the last week in the Abingdon Community Shop Window.
 
Prizes were awarded by Heather from Choose Abingdon to some of the junior and seniors entries. Well done to Billy who was 3rd last time and this time came 2nd.

A Welcome Home to Abingdon (circa 1918 style)

Last week in the Community Shop there was an exhibition of old pictures. This late exhibit did not make it but you can watch all 9 minutes of it now.

The video shows troops recently returned from WWI (?) with old street scenes of Abingdon. It begins with the officers standing in a line and playing a trick on the camera. There is a parade led with a band that starts at the park and ends at the Market Place. We see the civic party and Mayor. Then people lay flowers at an early war memorial. It end with luncheon at the Corn Exchange and some fuzzy lines like we used to have on early TV.

(I’ll remove it after a week as I have no rights to this movie as it belongs to ‘IWM’ but hope you enjoy and can add more information.)