Rain, sunshine, and intermittent showers

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Bright Sun
This Sunday morning started off wet and windy.
Bright Sun
Then the sun came through. Lots of people were enjoying the sunshine, seen here as a dazzling white from Margaret Brown Gardens
Bright Sun
and blue sky and water looking back from Wilsham Road.
Bright Sun
There was a notice on a capsized boat that said the owner was aware. They did not need telling again. So not everybody was enjoying today.
Bright Sun
A line of pigeons on the Wilsham Road railings came down as a flock. They kept jostling and trying to find the best position. Some flew off again in search of something better.

Later on, the sky clouded over, and there were intermittent showers.

Follow the Pied Piper

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Pied Piper
This picture shows the corner of Broad Street and Queen Street on this wet and windy Sunday morning. It shows the tall side of Peacocks – previously the Somerfield / Co-op supermarket.
Pied Piper
The Pied Piper restaurant was on this site – run by Mr and Mrs Gough. They served coffee and cakes and cream teas in the early 1960s. It is a matter of regret that such a fine building was demolished.
Pied Piper
This post card (printed for S & S Stationery Co Ltd., Oxford) shows the beamed interior. The previous picture came from Abingdon and surrounding areas facts and history on Facebook. I don’t know where they got it.

Peacocks are to close. Time will tell, what will follow.

A Mountain of Coffee Cups

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Costa Cups
Last year we bought reusable cups so that we could stop the growth of the the single-use coffee-cup mountain. This year the mountain of coffee cups is growing higher again.

During lockdown the coffee shops are only allowed to serve takeaways and that has increased the quantity of single-use cups.

Reusable cups are bulky and easily forgotten and we don’t always have them with us at the moment we visit: Coffee Aroma, Costa I, Costa II, Java, R&R, or Throwing Buns in Abingdon.