Morris Men danced near the Abbey Gateway.

The Friends of Abingdon held court in the Abbey Buildings.

Abingdon Area Archaeological and Historical Society also had a stall at the Abbey Gateway.

There is no abbey anymore, but the churches in Abingdon are working together publicising an Alpha Course, to tell novices about the faith.

Some workmen were at Thrupp Lake yesterday.

They were there to bang blue sticks in. I guess

they mark out where the drainage channel is to be put under the cycle track. Work was suspended by nPower, earlier in the year, because of the breeding season. But now all the birds have grown up a little, work is likely to begin on preparing to drain the lake (nPower call it dewatering). On Monday they will start work to divert the cycle path to allow a drainage channel to be built.

When I got to Tilsley park, I thought they must be expecting trouble as there were about twenty police officers near the entrance.

This man was worked up about something, and the police officers were about to caution him.

Such trouble is a regular thing at Tilsley Park, as trainee Policemen and women are confronted with actors in role play training.

The Living Waterways exhibition at the museum will be dismantled in a few days.

At the exhibition, children have been given the chance to dress up like barge people, and pretend to cook in the full size replica of a barge cabin.

Outside, the living waterways trail will not be closing. It will be open so long as there is life (plants, fishes, insects, birds etc) on the River Thames.