Strong winds on October 31st have blown down leaves. Today, November 1st, all was calm and sunny.
The water of the River Thames looks blue from this angle.
The works at St Helen’s Wharf have all been completed and the benches are back. The ‘Happy to Chat’ bench has moved down a tree. The ‘Happy to Chat’ bench is not just an Abingdon thing. Such benches are used in many places and are intended to combat loneliness and isolation.
There were strong winds and rain yesterday morning and it blew trees over. There are a group of large trees, still with their foliage, on the walk from Abingdon Bridge to Abingdon Lock.
Two of them are snapped on the main trunk, and a couple of others have been torn apart higher up.
This is how they look from the other bank of the River Thames. They are not the only ones. Other trees are broken and torn, but this group are the most dramatic.
A lot of leaves were blown into the MIll Stream. It looks a great big mess.
For November the City Daily Photo theme is Great Big Mess. Have a look at other examples of this theme at the Great Big Mess Gallery.
Halloween is over for another year. Apart from the shop window displays, it passed us by as we don’t have young children.
In the town centre we are not visited by Trick and Treaters and no longer buy a supply of Haribo Tangfastics. I would end up eating them in any case when nobody came to the door and would regret it.
This year we haven’t even bothered with a pumpkin and candles.
Shop widows will change from Halloween to Christmas on November 1st. Some shops, like Finishing Touch, are already there.
There are a hundred poppies outside the Royal British Legion because it is the Centenary of Royal British Legion. (Clare, the poppy collection organiser for Abingdon, helped organise this.)
The War Memorial in Abingdon is also one hundred years old. The opening ceremony was in September 1921. The remembrance day service this year will be on November 14th.
On the Markey Place in Abingdon there was a poppy stall, and army cadets were selling poppies round town.
The poppy stall was one of about twenty stalls taking part in the Local Excellence Market on the Market Place.
In St Nicolas Church the Kennington Memory Club had a large charity sale.