The Abbey Brass were in the Market Place this morning and there was a good number of them too. I could hear their music from the bottom of West St Helen Street (aka The BackStreet).

Annabel has reported Alan Titchmarsh on her blog but I’m afraid I missed what was another big TV Star – in Abingdon.

All I do have is a picture of The Mostly Books shop window advertising the event. Hope that will do. Mark may send me a picture or two but I’ll use them if they come.

Next to Alan Titchmarsh I am trying to make out who is The Last Englishman.

The new toy shop has been open since last Saturday. Sylvanian families in the front window.

And Playmobil in the side.

Mostly Books have an evening with Alan Titchmarsh at St Helen & St Katharine School, tonight, 7.30pm… He will discuss his memoir “Knave of Spades”. I’m sorry I cannot make it, so if somebody can send me a picture I would be grateful…

Caption Competition from last week… My two favorites are
1) i’m MONKeying around on the pc
9) I’m willing tibetan this monk not keeping a vow of silence.

Let me know what you think.

On the Ock Valley Walk I met not one but two well known Abingdon people in the space of a minute. Jo Cartmell, of Save Radley Lakes fame, was out looking for wildlife. She explained to me how to recognise a Water Vole by the plopping sound as it went into the water, and other things.

After that we saw Alan Bryden preparing for a guided ramble in a day or two. Alan was County Councillor for North Abingdon until he retired at the last election back in May 2009 but now is getting dragged into leading rambles and things like that – this far south.