Today I saw Specsavers where it usually is…
then a few door further up, where Halford once sold car parts and bicycles, there is another Specsavers opening soon.
Either Specsavers are moving, or I ‘Ought to have gone to Specsavers.’
The frost can be seen on the pavilion and bowling green at Albert Park. We have had a couple of early frosts now.
The spring and the autumn are the seasons of dramatic change. Most of the red leaves on the trees in front of the Long Alley almshouses have fallen already. The picture was taken a few days ago.
This afternoon there was an open invitation for tea and birthday cake at the Helen and Douglas House Charity Shop which was five years old today.
As you can see, in the Sessions Hall, some cases have already been emptied.
Most of Abingdon’s collection is already deposited away in the museum store at Standlake, but there are some items stored away at the top of the stairs, on the top floor of the County Hall… an old gramophone, the bones of an Ichthyosaur, drawers for holding a printer’s typeset…
Everything is carefully photographed and labelled, then wrapped for safe transit.
Chris Gale is in charge of decanting the museum and is packing it all away into boxes.