Archives – October, 2017
150 years ago, Queen Victoria would have celebrated Halloween at Balmoral. The Halloween Ball, in all its splendor, would have been reported down south in the Abingdon Herald. Now thanks to the influence of TV, and the Simpsons, Halloween is celebrated here in the south as well.
A lot of our shops and shop windows have been bedecked with spiders webs, pumpkins and other spooky paraphernalia. Here are just four shops in Abingdon . Do you know who they are?

Shop A

Shop B

Shop C

Shop D
October 31, 2017

On Saturday, Brian Eastoe, the tutor of the local woodcarvers associations, was doing a good job of guiding people into the Community Free Space to see the carvings. He joked that we would be allowed to leave once we had voted for our favourite three wood carvings, and signed the visitors book.

Wood carving was happening on the premises, and Brian, was looking to get as many opinions as possible on the recent works.

Some works took a huge amount of work and looked very cleverly executed. Others were simple with a few simple curves.
All was going well. We filled in our 1,2,3 on the slip provided, and wrote something in the visitors book, and were about to leave, but then out of the blue Brian said that Van Gogh was not a skilled painter, or something similar. My wife looked astonished and said she could not believe he had said that. A very robust discussion followed.
October 30, 2017

Abingdon’s most recent takeaway is at the corner of Bridge Street and Turnagain Lane. It opened on 29th September.
This evening felt cooler but the stars looked brighter.
On Nags Head Island there were lights both sides of the bridge. As well as the panoply of lights and flares along the Nag’s Head side, Annie’s at the Boat House was still lit up on the other side.

Annie has been putting on free films for children during half term and up until 31st October, and has many other Halloween themed activities.
October 27, 2017
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