A lot of water under the bridge and a lot of traffic across it…

Here are the Bridge Street traffic lights before unveiling in December 2006.

Here is the same place after the lights were dismantled in May 2008.

That sign has now passed into history. I hope it will find a fitting place at Standlake (Oxfordshire’s museum storage depot) and be kept for an appropriate moment to be dusted off and displayed within the museum.

Here is the Abingdon Town Crier being interviewed for a Channel 5 program about living in Abingdon. I heard him say ‘I enjoy living in Abingdon because…‘

Look in at Radio Abingdon for more details.

Paul Viney Photography

and Frugal Food are two of the thirty independent shops taking part in Spring into Abingdon during these two weeks.

I am plugging them because they are near neighbours, and people may have forgotten they are still there beyond the ongoing Co-op works

Welcome Home.

Is the misery finally over for people returning to their homes after last summer’s floods?

Not, if every time it rains they have to worry whether it is going to happen again.

Perhaps last year was a freak. Perhaps not. We don’t know.