Faulkner Photography have been kitting out the new studio on Lombard Street. This was once the Crystals shop, and for a short while the Acupunture Centre.

The footfall down this way will improve once the Co-op opposite opens.

That orange cone has been there since the time of the West Saint Helen Street Hole. Further down, near the ambulance car, there is a white square painted to say “we are aware” round another rickety pavement.

There was a lot of work patching the road in the aftermath of the Hole. But not yet the pavements.

Abingdon School has opened a new £9m sports hall today. This is the view of the development from Bath Street taken a couple of months ago.

The school website has the inside pictures. Martin Keown the ex Arsenal footballer was there to help open it.

Here we see Lois Humphreys (Mayor of Abingdon, Virginia) watching as Pat Lonergan ( Mayor of Abingdon, England) logs onto the newly launched free internet with his PDA. Can I thank the Bristol Herald Courier for the pictures. Pat is quoted as telling that newspaper “We too have a Bristol.”

46 visitors from Abingdon, England have gone across to celebrate the 230th Anniversary of Abingdon, Virginia. Here they can be seen arriving. Three town councillors, including Pat, are among them. There is also a Freeman.

Last Sunday morning there was a mist at 9:30 am at Caldecott Rec and the man painting the lines could not be sure that it would lift for the kick off at 10:30.

Elsewhere fruit and vegetables, tins, jars of marmalade and chutney, and packets of pasta were brought forward to lay round the platform at the front of Trinity Church.

Revd Dr Peter Doll from St Michaels, and Revd Richard Bittleston from Trinity held a joint Harvest Celebration. Like Thanksgiving in America, Harvest is a time to give thanks.