The plane trees along St Helen’s Wharf have their branches pruned back to almost nothing every few years, but they don’t seem to mind and slowly grow back. From time to time, their roots crack and lift the asphalt pavement until the council notices and marks the offending roots
and gets them pruned and covered with fresh tarmac. But they will be back.
I live in the Abbey Ward and so far have had a visit from one candidate, Cheryl Briggs, the Green Candidate. Looking at the list of candidates for the Abbey Ward, no Conservatives are contesting the two seats. Normally Lib-Dems and Conservatives would contest every seat.
Even stranger is that in Northcourt Ward, the two Lib-Dem candidates will get in without a vote. Nobody else has stood.
For the 19 town council seats, there are:
18 Lib-Dems
7 Conservatives
6 Labour
2 Greens
1 Independent
The one independent is Charlie Birks, who resigned as a Lib-Dem, about six months ago. The current Mayor, Cllr Andy Foulsham is not standing again for the town council. Neither is the leader of the council, Cllr Sam Bowring.
If you look at candidates for the district council, with 10 Abingdon seats, there are:
10 Lib-Dems
10 Conservatives
7 Labour
3 Greens
The County Hall Museum is usually closed on Monday but was open today because it was a Bank Holiday, giving visitors a place to look around out of the wind. As well as the permanent exhibition, there was the Abingdon Alphabet exhibition.
Nineteen quilters from the three local quilting groups (Abbey, Fitzharrys and Barn Cafe) have produced an A-Z of Abingdon Quilt.
Q X Y Z are the more difficult letters in any A-Z. Q is for Quilt.
X for the Market Place X of paths
Y for Yoke. The museum has a permanent yolk.
Z for Zebra Crossing featuring characters from the Abingdon underpass mural
There were also individual quilts in the exhibition.
What would you have done for your X Y Z of Abingdon?
Today was Easter Sunday, a day when Christian churches celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. At Trinity Church in Abingdon, there was a model of the empty tomb – created for Experience Easter, an event staged by Trinity Learning and visited by lots of schools before Easter.
Easter is a movable feast, celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the Spring Equinox.
For Trinity, the Easter Sunday service was celebrated at Trinity Church, but the congregation has moved about during the last few days of Holy Week.
Maundy Thursday – 7:00 pm – Abingdon Baptist Church
Good Friday – 10:00am at Trinity Church
12 noon – Church in Abingdon United Service in the Market Place
Holy Saturday – 8:00 pm – St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Abingdon
It doesn’t stop there. On Sunday, 23rd April, the Trinity congregation are joining All Saints Methodist Church in Abingdon.