Thursday 5th and Friday 6th August 2021 in Abingdon.
Sunrise on Thursday morning.
Mid-morning, our dear friends Annie and Paddy arrived, having driven all the way from Lydney in the Forest of Dean. We had not seen them for two years, so there was lots to catch up on.They arrived bearing a posy of sweet peas and various veg, all home grown!
They both looked very well and we made plans for when we can get together again.
Friday was mostly wet, so we stayed put all day, other than a sortie to Waitrose for provisions, going past the very impressive Town Hall
We were most impressed with the Abingdon Waitrose on two counts. The first was a new way of displaying and dispensing bulk dry ingredients, which will minimise packaging. The only place we have seen this kind of display was in "Wholefoods" in the USA. Great to see it here now!
We also liked the store café, which is named after Messers Wallace Waite & Arthur Rose.
On the walls are pictures showing the history of the store including a photograph of an early shop. The sign in the window reads "Its a long, long way to Tipperary, but the Short Cut to get the Best Value is Here!"
Back at MM, the rain and the sunshine combined to provide us with a spectacular rainbow from horizon to horizon.
MM took the day off.
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