Taxi to Anywhere

14/12/2025

Come and hear The Good News, at St Clement’s Church, Marston Road OX4 1FN
by Candlelight at 6.30 pm.
Home bakes and mulled wine afterwards.

10/11/2021

NEW in my column today in Wantage & Grove Herald:
http://www.theabingdontaxi.com/blog/20211110

“Those men and women of the town who gave so much are not forgotten this year - nor any year - in my taxi

Online / in actual newsprint (usually free to read at The Penguin Fish Bar and the Library in Wantage)

29/09/2021

NEW in my column in Wantage & Grove Herald this morning:
http://www.theabingdontaxi.com/blog/20210929
"Of course, I have not come across a single soul who has admitted to buying up fuel they don't need: everyone believed that their own journey is essential."

A widely-trusted and reliable taxi service operating in the heart of the community in Abingdon and Oxford for eleven years

22/09/2021

NEW in my column in Wantage & Grove Herald, this morning:
http://www.theabingdontaxi.com/blog
My longest ever journey was to Pontefract, the furthest south, to Bournemouth, furthest west Exeter and the furthest east to Tilbury.

online / in actual newsprint (usually free to read at the Penguin Fish Bar in Wantage and Wantage Library.

A widely-trusted and reliable taxi service operating in the heart of the community in Abingdon and Oxford for eleven years

15/09/2021

in my column in the Herald Series this week:
http://www.theabingdontaxi.com/blog
Ragged gospel hope: a journey between two of the claimants to the title of Britain's oldest town
online / in actual newsprint
(for sale at the Community Shop in East, usually free to read at Wantage Library, or the Penguin Fish Bar in Wantage)

08/09/2021

NEW: my column in the Herald Series, this week: in search of a hipster style coffee shop, on a fare to Manchester...
https://www.theabingdontaxi.com/blog/20210908

Online / in actual newsprint (usually free to read at Wantage Library and the Penguin Fish Bar)

we were welcomed to the city centre by the sight of shoes strung over power lines, drug taking detritus in the stairwell and a loud mural proclaiming “This is Manchester - we do things differently here”

28/07/2021

NEW in my column in Wantage & Grove Herald today:
http://www.theabingdontaxi.com/blog/20210728
for the second year, part of the Market Place has been closed and the space given over to three hospitality businesses..

online / in actual newsprint (usually, free to read at Wantage Library and the Penguin Fish Bar)

23/06/2021

NEW in Colin's column in the Herald Series, this morning:

http://www.theabingdontaxi.com/blog/20210623
in an age such as this, the low key resumption of Morris dancing brings joy. And hope.

online // in actual newsprint (available from the Community Shop in East, usually free to read at Wantage Library and the Penguin Fish Bar in Wantage)

19/05/2021

NEW in my column in Wantage & Grove Herald, this week:
http:/www.theabingdontaxi.com/blog/20210519
"Selfish parking is completely out of control throughout Wantage town centre. It is a free for all."

21/04/2021

NEW in my column in Wantage & Grove Herald this week
http://www.theabingdontaxi.com/blog/20210421
"Those were the days, 25 years ago, when I almost went to live in another land far, far away on the other side of the world."

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31/03/2021

NEW in my column in Wantage & Grove Herald this morning:
http://www.theabingdontaxi.com/blog/20210331
Receiving the sacraments in both kinds has not happened for more than a year now, but I have at least this week received the Oxford coronavirus vaccine