We have had a lot of rain and large puddles have grown. On a rainy night, this is what the Market Car Park, in the town centre looked like . The car park is used by season ticket holders – mostly traders.
It also houses an area for waste / recycling. The cages are a recent innovation.
By morning the clouds have gone but standing water still remains. On Ferry Walk, just off Wilsham Road, such standing water is an obstacle for the elderly people who live there.
Between the Co-op funeral service and the Grapes pub the new pavement, laid about nine months ago, has been taken up by a contractor, doing some sort of repair, but not put back like it was before.
When we got there ten minutes before the show the stewards were putting out additional seats round the walls.
The mini opera, Amahl and the night visitors, lasted forty minutes. The event was free, thanks to sponsors, but there was still a lot of money piled on the retiring collection plates. It had been a full house at St Helen’s church. The show was very well performed.
At Abingdon library a new system for scanning books is to be introduced within a few weeks. Most of the books downstairs have a yellow sticker …
indicating they have already been chipped.
Borrowers will put their stack of books down on a reader and it will book them all out, or back in again.
The current system invoves librarians swiping a bar code, and stamping a date inside the book. With the new system fewer librarians will be required.
btw. Last year I always got an e-mail reminder a day or two before books were due back. Very clever I thought, but it did not happen this time.