The mural in the underpass – showing people from the past – was repainted a couple of years ago and covered with an anti graffiti covering.
That does not stop graffiti but it does make grafitti a little easier to remove.
A google search shows that this particular graffiti statement “Question Everything” predates most of the rest of the mural.
Euripides (Greek playwright, c. 480-406 BC) said “Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
On Saturday was the Mayor’s Junior fishing contest. Bank Holiday Monday saw the senior event with over 30 contestents. It began at 10 am and ended at 3 pm.
The boating season does restrict the number of good pitches. Abingdon does have free moorings.
Upstream from the bridge there are no fixed moorings and boat owners hammer in their own spikes and get very close together. In places they double park.
The best catches during the day were down near the marina where some of the fishermen caught over 18 lbs. This chap near the bridge got about 13 lbs – the best in his stretch of the river.
This is what the courtyard of the Kings Head and Bell looked like a year ago (picture by Carl) …
The landlord of the Kings Head and Bell is seen here one year later with the Chairman of the Vale at the opening of the first Annual Beer Festival.
Lots of different local beers were on offer. Steve Green on his blog (Abingdon Beer) will have far more detail. He was working his way through the twenty or so beers on offer last time I saw – showing great dedication to his blog.
This afternoon the morris men were performing at the festival. Weather has been good, apart from a sudden downpour at 2:30pm – the time they were meant to start. So they started late and carried on most of the afternoon.
It gave their bagman the chance to get aquainted with quite a few young ladies. He picks them out of the crowd to be danced round.
(They will be dancing next on Saturday 11th September on Abingdon Market Place for Heritage Day. The Kings Head and Bell will also open up the King Charles room on Heritage Day.)
You can see him here breaming from ear to ear!!! The winner Rhys Griffin, aged 7, caught the Bream.
