Today there was Rainbow Cake on sale at the Whippet Kichen at Abingdon Lock.
Abingdon Town Council had voted by 6-5 to not fly a Rainbow flag as part of Oxford Pride next year. Since then a petition has been raised, and the story has gone national. So now Abingdon is fast becoming a rainbow town.
The proposal to fly the Rainbow flag had been put forward by the Lib-Dems on the Council and opposed by Conservatives. There was a Lib-Dem tombola on the Market Place this morning.
On Bridge Street the barber has a new sign and the new name of ‘Istanbul Barber’. While one customer is having a white shave, another customer is having a hot towel. Both appear to be in different parts of Aladdin’s cave and between them is the Bosphorus Bridge at night. Looks a good Movie!
Over the road the Broad Face pub has been closed for a couple of months, and somebody has started to use the blackboard as a poetry forum. The first poem is about a man buying a pig at Abingdon Market and has an amusing ending. I look forward to reading more.
I hear that people come from far and wide to the Miele Outlet in Abingdon. One work colleage, who lives in Chippenham, knows Abingdon just because they keep an eye on the Miele website for what is on offer at the Outlet, and then come to Abingdon for that purpose. The outlet has a large range of unboxed and re-conditioned products, and is part of the larger Miele presence in Abingdon – one of our most important employers.
There will be two exhibitions to give the people of Abingdon an opportunity to view the initial proposals for development of 900 homes on farmland to the north of Abingdon:
Saturday 16th July, 11 – 4pm, Trinity Church Conduit Centre, Conduit Road.
Tuesday 19th July, 5 – 8pm, Tilsey Park, Dunmore Road.
The developers, CEG, want to get outline planning permission through the Vale of White Horse District Council and so are presenting ideas for initial public feedback as part of the process. Top among the worries of local people are likely to be increased traffic problems, and the erosion of the green belt separating Abingdon from Oxford.