After the cold spell in December the winter has been mild…
Winter Aconites have been out for quite some time. These ones are in the Abbey Garden.
A few feet away the snow drops are growing tall.
And catkins on the Ock Valley Walk will soon be at full stretch. Their pollen will be carried on the wind to the smaller red flowers at the top of the catkins on nearby trees.
Drayton Road at 8:55 am. The traffic arriving at the Caldecott Road roundabout is beginning to flow at a more reasonable rate now the school rush is about over.
At the other end of Caldecott Road the traffic going over the Iron Bridge is still slow.
Neither route out of South Abingdon has right of way. Nothing has been done to improve the situation in the last years. It has become clear that there is no easy solution. Many ideas have been put forward and considered. Proposals have either been considered too expensive, too dangerous, or likely to hold up cars on more major routes.
Last time I looked at the Community Shop it had an ecological theme. In the front window was a model of a turbine like we might get to generate power from the Abingdon rivers.
Today I saw the Abingdon Music Centre had taken up residence and an after school concert was about to begin.
Fairly soon the shop will become the Abingdon Arts Festival Community Shop.
George Haslam’s Big Band “Swingtime” are performing this Saturday with Alison Bentley at The Arts Festival Ball.
I am not sure which of the Abingdon art groups installed the current exhibition on the River Thames in Abingdon.
It has been a very successful exhibition and attracted many birds. The only problem that I can see is that some of the birds get too close and end up sitting on the picture.