{"id":25329,"date":"2006-11-18T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/11\/18\/old-gaol-blue-sky\/"},"modified":"2006-11-18T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T21:15:00","slug":"old-gaol-blue-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25329","title":{"rendered":"Old Gaol &#8211; Blue Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just moved work and now sit next to some people who talk in phrases like &#8220;Joined up&#8221; and  &#8220;Blue Sky&#8221; thinking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/bluedoorbd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/bluedoorbd.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>To my mind this blue door looks all the more striking because of the red leaves above it. This door is at the intersection of Bath Street and Broad Street.<\/p>\n<p>There is a letting agency in Abingdon called Blue Door letting, run by Greg. His office backs onto the Old Gaol on Bridge Street, and you can see his style of &#8220;Blue sky&#8221; thinking with <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120620153849\/http:\/\/www.bdea.co.uk:80\/properties.pl\">property descriptions<\/a>  like <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;This is the sort of apartment 007 would live in!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/336135\/musiclangbd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/861298\/musiclangbd.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Greg also sits in the same building as the Music Centre, and the separate Language Centre. According to Greg, it looks like the lady running the Language Centre hasn&#8217;t returned from her holiday. And so it looks like &#8220;Au Revoir&#8221; &#8220;Auf Wiedrsehen&#8221; and &#8220;Goodbye&#8221; to the Language Centre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/721141\/oldgaolbk2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/68366\/oldgaolbk2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A few weeks ago John Reid , the Home Secretary, was running out of prison places.  Among the many suggestions I have heard for the Old Gaol is to return it to its original function. Perhaps a bit too &#8220;Blue Sky&#8221; and not &#8220;Joined up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I also heard, and this is only tittle-tattle and heresay, so don&#8217;t quote me, that an executive member at the County Council said a bomb should be put under Abingdon&#8217;s Old Gaol. Very &#8220;Blue Sky&#8221; I must admit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/401715\/oldgaolbk1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/109421\/oldgaolbk1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I wonder in what &#8220;Blue-Sky&#8221; ways Greg could describe the Old Gaol as a property.<\/p>\n<p>(As the final picture shows, some of the Christmas lights are now up and we do have a blue sky over the Old Gaol this morning.)<\/p>\n<p>We are expecting news of the Old Gaol fairly soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just moved work and now sit next to some people who talk in phrases like &#8220;Joined up&#8221; and &#8220;Blue Sky&#8221; thinking. To my mind this blue door looks all the more striking because of the red leaves above it. This door is at the intersection of Bath Street and Broad Street. 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