Friday Night and Saturday Morning – now Strattons has closed

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No Strattons
I cannot see too much out of place this Saturday morning, apart from the odd traffic cone.
No Strattons
Strattons (recently renamed Funky Monkey) had a final night last weekend.

There is a nightclub called The Club @ Abingdon Town FC that stays open to 2 am. More people are heading that way now Strattons has closed.
No Strattons
But at 12:40 AM the pavement outside the Grapes was still heaving with people. It was like a London pub – with more people outside than in. Four policemen stood on the pavement opposite to maintain control – there not being not much else happening at that hour. The Grapes is open to 3 AM so could be the favoured destination (picture taken the morning after).

Other places still serving drinks at that time were the Blue Boar, Black Swan, and possibly the Stocks.

Most mistakes in one newspaper caption – ever

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From page 2 of the Oxfordshire Grundian (sic) of Thursday, April 12 – Wednesday, April 18. 2012
proof reader required
* (Left to right) Abingdon Major Duncan Grant and Deputy Major Alasdair Fear launch buns at last year’s royal wedding.

should say

* (Right to Left) Abingdon Mayor Duncan Brown and Councillor Martin Smith launch buns at last year’s royal wedding.

It takes genius to get it so wrong.

Job Centre Plus – Opportunities

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Job Centre Plus Quiz
In the window of the Abingdon Job Centre Plus – that is where people in Abingdon go to sign on every two weeks if they have not got a job in order to get what is called Job Seekers Allowance or Unemployment Benefit – there are pictures mixed with the job opportunities.

I think I got 3 of the 5 opportunities.

1. Office Clerk
2. ?
3. Road Maintenance
4. Surveying
5. ?
Job Centre Plus
Can anybody help me with the last two – possibly painter and decorator and plumber.

Grebe catches a whopper at Radley lakes

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Catching a Whopper
Near the fancy birdhide at Thrupp Lake there is a board for people to write down wildlife they have seen. I did not see the ducklings somebody had spotted on 6th April.

I saw most of the usual birds: swans, geese, ducks,

and a solitary grebe. Grebe disappear underwater and reappear – often some way from where they went under. This particular grebe went under and seemed to be gone for ages.

When the grebe reappeared he had a whopper and did not let it go.