St Ethelwolds Art and Garden

St Ethelwolds Art
There is to be another Art in the Garden Gallery event at St Ethelwold’s House – with local artists, from 18 -21 September.

The garden itself is looking good as we head towards autumn. There is an orange border along by the wall.

In the central area are more blues and pinks.
St Ethelwolds Art
I thought it was amazing as I took photos but getting back to the computer was disappointed that the pictures failed to capture the glory of the gardens in real life.

They have a number of gardening helpers and I think Simon is the main man. I was told he does not have a TV or mod cons and knows everything about plants.

Two Restaurants and a Pop Up One Stop Wedding Shop

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Walking round the town centre this afternoon I noticed two new restaurants and a pop up wedding shop.
Two Restaurants and a Pop up Wedding Shop
In High Street, Que Pasa will be openings as a Spanish Tapas bar and Mediterranean Restaurant and wine bar .

Al Mulino will be a takeaway pizzeria in Bath Street.

In Bury Street is The One Stop Wedding Shop – a pop up shop. Some weddings have been put on hold because of the restriction on numbers, but not all.
Two Restaurants and a Pop up Wedding Shop
P.S. 1 Stert Street, The ex TSB bank, is getting painted.

Ride and Stride 2020

Yesterday was the annual Ride and Stride. This is where people do a sponsored cycle, walk or ride round the many Oxfordshire Churches listed by the Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust for the event. The sponsorship money is split between the Trust and the person’s church.

The Covid-19 restrictions meant the event looked a little different this year. Not as many churches had people at the door welcoming.

In Abingdon, three churches still had welcomers (St Helen’s, Abingdon Baptist, and St Michael’s).

The other churches left a form to be signed to show who had visited. In Abingdon, this included: Trinity, Peachcroft Christian Centre, All Saints, and St Nicolas

Here are two Ride and Striders signing in at St Nicholas on the Market Place.

I took part and cycled around all the Abingdon churches and churches in some nearby villages: Shippon, Sunningwell, Bayworth, Boars Hill, Kennington, Radley, Culham, Sutton, Milton, Steventon, Drayton.

Both the Drayton Churches were open, and allowed you to look round.
Ride and Stride
St Peter’s Church looked very smart from outside

and from inside. They had the usual sanitiser and sign in sheet.

Drayton Baptist Church also had a sign in sheet.

I cycle by this chapel going to work and have wondered what it looks like inside. So thank you to them for opening the door and letting me inside. It is a lovely building.

Exciting Abbey Buildings project on hold due to COVID-19. Support from Abingdon people needed

The Friends of Abingdon Abbey Buildings Trust has exciting plans for the enhancement of the Abbey Buildings which have unfortunately had to be put on hold due to the COVID-19 crisis.

Meanwhile they have to maintain the buildings and during the crisis they have not the usual income from lettings.

They would love to be able to do something a bit extra such as installing underfloor heating in the Checker or putting a dumb waiter up to the Long Gallery to make things easier and more comfortable for users then the Buildings are able to open again.
Abbey Buildings
They get quite a few coins from the box on the gate, which is good, but ideally they need some larger donations via the donation page on their web site. (The rest of the web site will soon follow.)

The Friends of Abingdon recently divided into two charities:
* The Friends of Abingdon Abbey Buildings Trust concentrate on the Abbey Buildings
* The Friends of Abingdon Civic Society look at other town matters and are currently working hard to find a viable way for Old Abbey House to be kept for Abingdon people.