New Notice Board at Reynolds Way shops

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New Notice Board
A new noticeboard has appeared at Reynolds Way shops, near the murals – a place where it hs always been difficult to display information about community events. The cost of the notice board was probably more than doubled by planning application costs. It is not that the district council are making money out of such community projects, but each planning application has to be fairly considered to find whether there are any objections that are against local planning regulations …

  • Letters asking for comments were sent out,
  • Documents needed compiling and loading to the internet,

New Notice Board

  • Site visits and an officer report had to be written and presented at the Abingdon area development control committee.

The planning application went through and so the noticeboard is now there, thanks to Sovereign Vale Housing and SARP.

To get your community information on that space, try dropping it in at …

Reynolds Way Notice Board, 52 Mill Road, Abingdon, OX14 5NZ.

Bags or Bins

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Most houses in Abingdon are served by wheelie bins as part of the recently introduced waste processing system.
New Bags
Other houses, like this one on Ock Street, have bags instead. They had a delivery  today – possibly only the second time this has happened.  They are mostly houses without rear access.

I would guess the projected cost of the bags will become more than the cost of the bins after a certain time. Therefore in the long run the bins become the cheaper, more environmentally friendly, option.
New Bags
A few door away, in the Brewery Development, wheelie bins have become a permanent feature  at the front. Here rear access is difficult but not impossible.

Spot the Difference – It’s back to normal

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Yesterday at KingsCraft
Yesterday at Abingdon Boat Centre .

High pressure brought warm air from the south creating an unseasonal week with a crowded Abbey Meadow over the weekend. Children were enjoying the water sprinklers and many parties were enjoying a picnic in the park. Even yesterday there was still a warm dazzlingly sunny day, but unfortunately it was back to school or work for most – so there were fewer people about to enjoy the boats.
Yesterday at KingsCraft
Today at Abingdon Boat Centre

But cooler weather from the Atlantic has now pushed out the remaining warm air and today was a grey day with light showers near the end, and it was getting dark much too early.

Tomorrow will bring wet and windy weather, and turn much cooler …

But we do have the Abingdon Marathon and Micahelmas Fair to look forward to – so long as it doesn’t rain too much.

Michaelmas festivities – late this year

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Street Fair
This blog often receives comments about the traditional Abingdon Street Fair.

Some commenters argues that it causes disruption and should be put somewhere less disruptive – like in a field outside the town centre. Other people comment, ironically, that it is the only time when the Abingdon traffic system works.

But this year I got a different complaint – NOT that the fair is in the wrong place, BUT that the fair is on the wrong date.

An Abingdonian – born and bred – argued that the Abingdon Street Fair is also the traditional Abingdon Michaelmas Fair. Michaelmas – the Feast of Saints Michael the Archangel – falls on 29th September. So the Fair should be on the Monday and Tuesday after Michaelmas – not a week later.

So are we in Abingdon taking the Michaelmas festivities too far from their traditional meaning?