There is a new exhibition showing paintings of Abingdon, and art by Abingdon Artists – ancient and modern. It was featured in the Oxford Times and there was a good crowd on the first day – Saturday – as a result.

This photo portrait of our own town Rector, the Vicar of St Helen’s Church, Dr Charles Miller, was first shown in an exhibition of portraits of people living on or near the Thames. I am not sure where those large hands above him have come from. They were not in the original; but one thing about the museum at present is that there are many reflections on a bright day like today.

Many of the older pictures need to be covered with liftable dark screens to protect them from the light. The ones shown here are not so old.

pavements in the town centre – that got treated – still have all the grit and salt and sand…

torrents of snow melt look to be going down the River Ock which has been on flood watch since yesterday…

and as the sun goes down, the water on the Cricket Fields just has nowhere to run away. The River Thames alongside is also on flood watch from today.

Option 1 shows…

The consultation made the BBC Oxford News. They want people’s opinions. Its on again today and Monday in one of the empty shops.

The second half of the new Drayton Road development, on the site of the Crossroads Garage and Esso Filling Station, looks like it is nearing completion.

This is how it appears in the window of Thomas Merrifield the estate agents.