This Abingdon shoe seller was last featured on this blog with a quote from Shakespeare’s MacBeth “twere well it were done quickly“…

Here is another…

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted shops
until their closing down…”

The Mayor’s Fishing Competition took place during Bank Holiday Monday Morning. This follows a junior competition on Saturday. During my walk past I saw mostly small fish landed.

I was told there were plenty of Roach about.
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On the subject of fish I was sent a picture by Michal taken at the weir a couple of weeks ago.

He asked me what it was and what it had died of. So I am throwing that one to the experts out there.

Cosener’s House and the view back across the Mill Stream.

The stable block created or re-created only back in 2005.

And the view through the rafters.

Finally Cosener’s Houses itself. A place for conferences, weddings, meals and hospitality. It took it’s name from the Cosener, that is the Cuisinier or Kitchener (the official responsible for providing food for the Abbey). It is owned by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), formed in 2007, following the merger of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council and some other august scientific Council.

I’m not sure where Carl found all these good old knockers in Abingdon but there are plenty more pictures like these in his album…