Her Majesty has not been amused by the display of her countrymen on the football fields of South Africa. She expects that her loyal countrymen will show their true spirit today against Slovenia – which she understands is an administrative district of the Duchy of Carinthia, and a small part of the Habsburg Kingdom.
If they fail in the third group match then they will have to come home early and face her Majesty’s displeasure.
The annual Foundation Art Course exhibition at Abingdon College is called ‘Wish You Were Here’ and is on until the end of the week: 10-7 Tuesday to Thursday, 10-4 on Friday. It is well worth going to see …
Paul Kilsby, the course tutor, sits in on one of the student’s exhibits. This piece shows pictures and artifacts gathered over four days in Paris tracing the route taken by a character called Nadja in a book of the same name by Andre Breton.
This exhibit shows dangling hats made from string and the unused string is shown on the floor still unravelling.
Wigs on the dark profiles make a striking image.
Do you find Humanity in this mermaid like artifact?
Just one still from an animation of some nasty false teeth that ate somebodies nose.
Memories growing dimmer and unclear as time goes by. There are a few exhibits about memory and the mind.
Thankyou to David for these pictures.
National Armed Forces Day is on Saturday 26 June 2010, but a lot of towns, including Abingdon, chose today to raise the Armed Forces Flag on Monday 21st.
Before the Flag raising, the Mayor of Abingdon presented medals to soldiers recently returned from Afghanistan.
The armed forces flag was then raised above the roof of the county hall.
At a reception afterwards, the Royal Logistics Corps presented the Vale of White Horse, and Town of Abingdon with a framed set of pictures showing troops in action at the recent Freedom parade.
The Friends of Abingdon Museum have Launched an appeal to raise funds towards the museum improvements.
Kay has been designing I Love Abingdon, and various other badges and fridge magnets to sell.
The friends of the museum have designed a £1 Treasure Trail, and have an open gardens event in a couple of weeks time on July 10th. You buy a passport and it allows entry to six different gardens in Abingdon….
On Saturday the museum was open from top to bottom to help raise money, and a few days earlier the appeal was launched. That is Sir Hugo Brunner on the left who has been giving advise and useful contacts.
The chap on the left is one of the main fund raisers. Ruth Weinburg on the right is the expert on the pump in the museum basement. You may recognise the others. If not they are Nigel Warner (Town Clerk), Lesley Legge (Town Council leader), Duncan Brown (Mayor), and Julie Mayhew-Archer(wife of the co-author of the Vicar of Dibley).