At St Nicolas C.E Primary School there was the May Fair this morning.
The Fair was opened by the Mr Furniss, the Headteacher.
There was traditional Maypole Dancing.
These young ladies have just been to the face painting stall… Butterfly and Japanese Princess.
To encourage new members the Ramblers are organising walks throughout the country called Get Walking Days. The Abingdon Get Walking Day is on Sunday 15th May. They will be meeting at 10.30 am in the Market Place, near La Baguette, for a leisurely 4.5 mile walk which takes in Andersey Island, the Thames Path, to Thrupp House and back through the Abbey Meadow. For those interested, there will be a pub stop afterwards and a chance to see some Dragon Boat racing.
All walks are published and the walks programme for Oxfordshire can be found at: www.ramblers-oxon.org.uk
(Thanks to Stuart for sending me the invite.)
On election day at least a third of people coming to the polling station had not received a polling card. The Didcot Herald reported a similar situation in South Oxfordshire under the headline “Inquiry into election ‘shambles’ ” . A lot of people are now getting polling cards belatedly as batches come through from the Swindon depot. Hope not too many people missed out as a result.
Oxfordshire Art Weeks runs for 3 weeks, and the first week has some Abingdon venues. One is St Helens Church.
My wife liked this one of the sky and red kite.
She also liked the one in the centre here. I think it is done by somebody we used to know when our children were little who has recently taken up art. Both have red dots to say they are sold. Too late for those two but there is a lot more to look round.