The distant echo
Of faraway voices from faraway times
No way home from their painted kingdom
to the place they knew

I was down the subway at midnight. da da da da…

Swimming round
Reflections of people from faraway times
One of the drains not working well.
I could go further but don’t want to get wet.

Down the subway at midnight. da da da da…

(Lyrics loosely based on Down the Tube Station at Midnight)

This may look like an ‘A’ board, but in fact it is a rather battered basket ball board at Southern Town Park so forget that and move on…

An ‘A’ board is an easy to move, fold up, and store board where the message or poster can easily be changed. ‘A’ board pavement signs help attract the public to an event, a store or even a local library. The Abingdon library ‘A’ board has a PVC cover to hold ‘The Big Wild Read’ design.

‘A’ boards seen here along Stert Street are Jennifer Gerard Gallery, and Mostly Books.
A bit of clever positioning here at Frugal food means that you don’t get the message once but twice.

‘A ‘boards can add character and colour to a market town like Abingdon. But there are more and more of them about and I’ve only shown some of the better ones.

At the bottom end of West St Helen Street you can have a long wait. There is no easy way for North bound traffic to get into the flow coming from Culham on High Street (shown on Friday’s post). This is during the rush hour during term time.

This van trying to get out of Lombard Street into West St Helen Street has the name ‘Air Action’. Its a courier though, not a champion for better air quality.

(Possibly a sad Note: As you can see things have moved full circle for Crystals. It started with white blinds on the windows in March 2006. So does it end with white blinds on the windows in Sept 2007? What next? )

There is an exhibition at St Ethelwold’s house down East St Helen Street called ‘ Discover the Quaker Way.’

The exhibiton is a simple introduction to the quakers (or Friends as they are also known). Quaker meetings for worship are based on silence, but may include spoken contributions from anyone present. The Abingdon quakers meet every Sunday at the Abbey Centre at 10:15.

One of their guiding principles is:‘Live adventurously!’