Church in Abingdon Quiz

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Church in Abingdon Quiz
Christ Church won the Church in Abingdon quiz last year, and like the Eurovision Song Contest they had to host it this.

There were 11 teams of 8 representing 11 different churches. Apart from a prayer at the start the format was similar to a pub quiz. The closest we got to a religious question was in the round where we had to guess famous people from their childhood names ….Marion Morrison = John Wayne …. Lhamo Dondrub = Dalai Lama.

My own general knowledge is not so good anymore. But other people from the Trinity team did well and at the end of the evening we came third. ACC came second. That is Abingdon Community Church who meet at Thameside School.

And Christ Church on Long Furlong won. There are two Christ Churches in Abingdon … The original in Northcourt, and the offspring, set up about 20 years ago, who meet at Long Furlong School.

Looking back to Alice and forward to the Arts Festival Ball

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Alice
Alice in Wonderland, performed produced and written by members of the Abingdon Drama Club, has just finished a successful run at the Unicorn Theatre.

Soon to come in Abingdon is the Festival Ball at the Guildhall on 18th February (an early fund raiser event for the Abingdon Arts Festival). Tickets £18/£16 available from The Bookstore or Information Centre. Music by Swingtime Big Band. Price includes finger buffet by Abbey Foods. There is also a raffle with prizes donated by many local businesses.
Alice
Anyway for those who went to Alice I took a few pictures of the display in Abingdon Library before it got taken down … Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
Alice
Nursey and Queeny had more than a passing resemblance to Nursey and Queeny from Black Adder. Excellent.
Alice
There was also a wonderfully Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. The March Hare was brilliant.

People came from far and wide to see this production. I was told by one of them that it was a better show than what you could see at many much larger theatres in these regions.

A Thankyou from Sri at Best One

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Tesco Opens
The former Ox Public House opened as a Tesco Express yesterday. Tesco staff held a small opening ceremony.

I have a comment from Sri from Best One next door. I hope he does not mind me repeating it here …

“I hope all of you have a very good start in 2012. As you know, I am the owner of the Best One shop that just opened last year in January. And have built a very successful business and customer relationship. Today is 20/01/2012. The Tesco express opening day. I can’t describe my feelings and stress. So you can imagine it’s not a good start of the year 2012. However my lovely local customers have encouraged me with support. Today I have seen in my shop, most of the customers who are very close. All said to me ‘Stay steady and we will support you’. I think it is extra ordinary… Thankyou … Sri”