The Volunteering Information Fair was on at the The Roysse Room in the Guildhall…

Ryder-Cheshire Volunteers are looking for people able to give a little bit of time to share their enthusiasm or interest – photography, cooking, astonomy, art or whatever – with somebody else. They build up a list of able and disabled people and match them up

Vinvolved are there to promote volunteering for 16-25 year olds. I know my son is doing a bit of volunteer work because sometimes it is the way to get experience before you can get into a job.

Among others there were Guide Dogs for the Blind.

I tried out some special glasses – intended to help the rest of us understand better what it is like to have various optical conditions. This one is to simulate macular degenaration .

At about eight or nine O’Clock this evening, I heard loud noises upstairs. Then somebody, sounding like my daughter, shouted down “Daddy, Can you drive us to a party in North Abingdon.”

“Ok” I said.

But when they came downstairs, it did not look like them.

Nethertheless I drove them, but went like the wind.

Frugal Food closed down for the final time today.

Local Roots had a display of large local pumpkins.

Fabulous Flowers had lots of small pumpkins.

The Book Store had two authors: Mark Robson who writes about dragons and David Melling who draws dragons.

At Mostly Books they had been making ghosts (from lollipops).

I saw this poster in the window of the Coventry Building Society in Abingdon. 50 is behind me already, 60 is some way ahead but I do not realistically expect to be retiring until at least age 65 – maybe even 70.