Scrap Yard at Rye Farm Commercial Car Park

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Scrap Yard at Rye Farm
A scrap yard has appeared over Easter at the Rye Farm Commercial Car Park – that is the one over Abingdon Bridge and behind Rye Farm Car Park.

This evening the car park was full of caravans and other vehicles. In the middle were three open top lorries full of scrap metal, and a small crane that was breaking up an old car and some white kitchen appliances. It looked as if anything that was not metal got discarded in a ditch.

Children were playing on rope swings suspended from the chestnut trees by the causeway, and one small boy was getting a ride on a quad bike. I also saw dogs, and some hens pecking round in the dirt.

Coffee Shop at Peachcroft in North Abingdon. Another at Northcourt soon.

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Coffee Shops
On Tuesdays and Saturdays, at the Peachcroft Christian Centre, Cafe Eden serves coffee, tea and cakes. The building work to allow this expanded community and church space was completed in 2007.
Coffee Shops
Meanwhile on the other side of the Oxford Road, also in North Abingdon, more community and church space has been created at Christ Church where some old barns, once part of the old dairy, have been bought, restored, and fitted out, some as a meeting space, and some as a new coffee shop. When I looked in staff training for the coffee shop was happening.

Window on the World

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A World Above Abingdon
At about 9 AM on Easter Sunday morning a hot air balloon floated over South Abingdon. Harry barked at the balloon as we walked up Healey Close.
A World Above Abingdon
Andrew photographed the same hot air balloon from Abingdon Bridge.
A World Above Abingdon
Meanwhile in the Masefield Play Park, Spike got much closer to the same hot air balloon.

Up in the balloon there was a photographer taking pictures for their company ‘Window on the World’ – a photographic company.

A Talking Pedestrian Crossing

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Talking Pedestrian Crossing
A pedestrian crossing in the centre of Abingdon has been modified because the warning sound it makes, to say it is safe to cross, is identical to the sound made when the nearby pub’s security alarm is activated.

And so it has become Abingdon’s first talking crossing. Not only does it say “It is safe to cross” in most European and Asian languages, I have also heard it say, “Take extra care! You have had too much to drink!” and “”Did you know your shoe lace is undone?“.