The Grapes re-opened last Tuesday.

Not so long ago I was reporting the Grapes had re-opened. But it closed a few months later because the tapas bar for properly dressed over 21s apparently did not work.

The new owners will be welcoming ALL – including 18s and over. As they said to me, this is their livelihood.

In other words there will be more ‘Funky House’ music in Abingdon.

A few weeks back I went on a Bat and Glowworm watch with the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust (as featured in the Not Abingdon Blog) … Today they were on the Market Place in Abingdon.

They even brought along some of the wildlife. As you can see we are having a very British summer.

At the old Harcourt Way Tree Nursery there are plans to build 14 flats for emergency housing with associated parking. (Chris Comments it is actually www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk )

The Social Housing will offset there being none on the Old Gaol site – unlike other large developments where social housing is on the same site.

If the plans go through it will mean that this view along the Stert Stream from near Boxhill Walk will have housing rather than trees. If the plans don’t go through then that would mean the need for a re-think on the Old Gaol.

On Sunday I missed all the MGs on the Market Place but Carl was there…

Back in October 2007 I got this comment from Carl on MG Run to Buckingham Railway Centre: I would have loved to be there with either my 1948 MG TC or 1938 MG VA saloon, but neither of them have learned to swim well enough to make it across the Atlantic. I’ll have to settle for being there in spirit.

Regards, Carl Fritz, Gainesville, Florida

This time he made it across!