Some of the entries for the best Tea Cosy competition can be seen in the window of Rosie’s Rea Room.
A knitted tea cosy featuring the front view of Rosie’s Tea Room is one of the winners.
Needles and Natter Every Thursday 9-11
A new shop is Coming Soon to Stert Street – well in time for Christmas. It is underneath the Utopia Beauty Salon and will sell some of the beauty products used upstairs as well as new lines.
Stert Street was once the ugly duckling on the Abingdon retail scene – it was the street of empty shop fronts. It was the street where a child in a buggy had to breathe in traffic fumes. But times have changed, and Stert Street has been transformed.
Stert Street got good wide pavements out of Abits (Abingdon Integrated Transport Strategy) and better air quality. Other streets did less well. The High Street pavements are still waiting to be rectified two years after they were laid.
Thorntons may have closed and the shop is looking a ghost of its former self….
but there is still an independent sweet and chocolate shop in Abingdon, on Stert Street, who do have chocolates to fill some of the space in the market left by Thorntons.
Sweet Chocolate are best known for their retro / traditional sweets and more recently American candy bars. Find out more of their recent innovations on their facebook page.
I hope they have a successful run up to Christmas … once they have managed to get over the Halloweenies. We don’t want any more ghost shops.
It was an excellent day for the Local Excellence Market. The town crier was out and about letting people know what else was going on: one more day of the craft fair, and Scout fireworks on November 5th behind Long Furlong Community Centre ( Gates Open 6:30pm. Park at Tilsley Park.)
The Carbon Cutters had a clever device to see how hot things are. As you can see Helen, who sent me the picture of the fallow deer recently, is cool where she is insulated but hot where she is not.
Here they are discussing my thermal image. There is also a picture of Harry’s Thermal image on the Harry dog blog.
Lots of good stalls as always. There were cakes from Jane’s Kitchen…
Jill Carver had two suppliers showing their wares. Jill is seen here holding a picture of the Moroccan Argan Tree. The Olive Oil and Argan Oil, in the picture, come from Morocco. The Argan oil is very good but takes a lot of extracting from unyielding nuts and so is not cheap.
There were also a couple of vegetable stalls, an apple stall, meat stall, craft stalls, and local beers, which if the town council have their way we will be able to drink on the Market Place on special occasions (front page story in the Abingdon Herald last week).