A new advert had just appeared on the Market Place advertising Armed Forces Open Day, a week today.
It dwarves the Abingdon’s Got Talent behind, but is not as big as the ‘All shops still open’ sign behind.
Three tiered advertising
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My first clear image of a water vole (or rat)
I have always admired some of the other Abingdon Blogs.
Take Views of the Ock. When that blog started, the blogger was elated after weeks of searching to get an indistinct blurred image of a water vole (I think they are also called water rats). Images got better and better until now the blogger seems able to find them at will, and has gone on to find other creatures like otters.
Today I saw my first water vole in the Margaret Brown Gardens, then almost immediately I saw five others. They scurried away, one down the riverside, the other five under the lavender.You can just see one cautiously peeping out to see if it is safe yet.
He / she then came out a bit further…
Then finally came into full view. My first clear image of a water vole (or is it a rat?). Just to add “Many people, including pest controllers, builders and developers, mistake the endangered water vole for the brown rat and accidentally poison them”
A Field of Daisies
Ox Eye Daisies seem to be doing particularly well this year – whether you go out along the river towards Swift Ditch…
or out near the new canal cut (at Jubilee Junction).
Old Gaol trench
It was not easy for this lorry to reverse through the gate at Twickenham House. It came within inches of the houses opposite in East St Helen Street, then within inches of cars parked either side, and just fitted through the gates. But the driver managed it without injury as far as I am concerned.
That was last week, and since then a trench has been dug and services laid through to the new Old Gaol development. I can imagine the lights flickering and going dim all the way along East St Helen Street when the new Old Gaol restaurants are first opened.