Paddington Bear was at Throwing Buns yesterday morning, and as a special there were marmalade sandwiches on the menu.
Paddington was there to give moral support to Kate from Throwing Buns who will be running the London Marathon next month (all 26 miles!!). There are sponsor forms in Throwing Buns. Money raised goes to ‘Action medical research.’
Mike Moon was on the Market Place organising another FairTrade event in the middle of FairTrade fortnight.
Oxfam joined in, and as well as FairTrade produce were selling Red Noses. (Red Nose day is March 15th – the chance to do something funny for money.)
Our town centre PCSOs came along to keep an eye on proceedings.
Trinity Church brought out their FairTrade stall – something that is normally only seen in church once a month.
Anishine Trading was there showing there in more to FairTrade than tea, coffee, chocolate, and bananas.
And there was a new game called Un-FairTrade Dice, which involved pushing 4 giant pictured dice off a table.
Top scores were Park Run with 123p, Cheeky Monkeys with 122p, and Fair Traders on 76p.
3 families each turned up a very impressive 3 out of 4 FairTrade Farmers with their go. They were: Umizoomi, Letcombs, and Cobner Vales.
Many thanks to Alex for sending me this picture of the official opening of the County Hall Museum. The Royal personage who unveiled the plaque was Prince Richard, The Duke of Gloucester. The last time The Duke of Gloucester visited Abingdon was for the opening of the Resource and Wellbeing Centre in October 2010. I didn’t get a picture of him on that occasion either.
I was looking back through the archives for a picture of the weir/lock keeper and found this one of him working hard at the weir in July 2007 in the aftermath of a huge deluge.
He is to retire this month. The name tag was still there last weekend but will soon be gone.
The refurbishment of Abingdon Lock is nearly complete for whoever takes over next, if there is to be a live in lock keeper.