The video ends with four pictures just outside the wood, including one rainbow picture at St Nicolas School.
If people can help identify bird sounds at specific timings in the video I will try to add some birdsong identification tags so we can all learn more bird songs.
Some trend setters in Abingdon have started to wear masks in public – a practice long established in Asia. I read somewhere that it was begun in Japan in 1918 during the influenza pandemic.
At the Abingdon Market the fruit and veg stall was extended into one long stall. This is to help social distancing.
Finishing Touch in Stert Street have been making some colourful rainbows to add to their shop window while the shop is closed.
Prices Stationers will take orders by email. They supply the raw materials for making all kinds of Art, including rainbows for the window, and VE Day bunting.
VE Day 75 is still planned for Friday 8th May. Many events will have been cancelled because of the lockdown but Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council have details of their plans for virtual events.
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It is Saturday night. No pubs or restaurants are open, apart from takeaways. I noticed Sami’s Kebab Van on Abingdon Market Place for the first time in the lockdown.
Our short health walk today took us near the Abingdon Wellbeing Centre where I saw this Bee Happy rainbow.
Wallingford School have hundreds of face shields which their DT department have made and they would like to distribute to Key workers. They have worked in Wallingford and are wondering if any care homes etc in Abingdon would like some.
If you are interested follow this link …. https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/news/thumbs-up-thousands-of-face-masks-for-nhs-and-care-homes/?fbclid=IwAR1D4t2RYw95AEtkC38K6xZ-bXZ_AbQ_RW_bZwate1wskxUZ7GV5yEwb9Qc