Abingdon Green Gym were out last weekend at the Ock Valley Walk renewing the wood chip path, clearing round trees, and litter picking.
The small saplings they planted several years ago are flourishing now and in leaf.
They will be back again on the Ock Valley Walk on 5th May according to their programme. The Green Gym programme aims to give people a way to keep fit while improving the local environment.
If you want to see the crowning of the May King and Queen in Abingdon and see Maypole Dancing then there is the May Fair at St Nicolas School on Saturday 12th May 2018.
Some of the national newspapers seem to have been making a thing about the revival of traditions such as Morris Dancing and Maypole Dancing. Sales of collapsible maypoles are doing very well, and young people are getting into Morris Dancing.
In 2006 there was a Spring Fair on Abingdon Market Place with Maypole Dancing by Dunmore School. That could have been the last time that happened in the town centre.
In 2006 there was an exhibition of children’s art in the Abbey Buildings. One work featured Maypole Dancing with children from Caldecott School.
There was bright sunshine this May Day morning when I left the house.
It would have been better if I had got up earlier and gone into Oxford for the May Morning gathering. I could have got a picture of the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers for the blog. Instead I took a couple of pictures by the River Thames.
There was a film of frost on the car windscreen. Once scraped off, I drove off.
Here are the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers in a video from 2014, dancing the Princess Royal in Abingdon.
There was a further attempt today to mend the water leak that has been causing a problem in Ock Street since Mid March. The hole was bigger this time, and now that it has been filled I can see no sign of gushing water.
There is another hole between Stratton Way and Bath Street where there is usually a raised bed of flowers. This is part of new gas mains being laid.