{"id":14254,"date":"2015-06-07T00:51:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T23:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14254"},"modified":"2015-06-07T00:51:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T23:51:12","slug":"rubys-fair-fun-in-the-park-and-music-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14254","title":{"rendered":"Ruby&#8217;s Fair, Fun in the Park, and Music in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060601.jpg\" alt=\"Rubys Fair\" \/><br \/>\nRuby&#8217;s Vintage Fair was in the Guildhall today. One stall had artwork based on the Bunty Comics. My wife said <em>&#8220;their stories were so exciting at the time.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060606.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nFun in The Park was happening in the Abbey Parks, and there were lots of exciting play activities for the children<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060604.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Rotary Club were there with one of their Shelter Boxes. ShelterBox provides emergency shelter and vital supplies to support communities around the world overwhelmed by disaster &#8211; such as Nepal.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060611.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nA group of eminent Abingdon historians were photographed with the MP, Nicola Blackwood, Mayor, Helen Pighills, and Deputy Mayor, to thank them for their work on the town portal&#8217;s history section. The Deputy Mayor, Alice Badcock, had done a lot of the organisation of the Park events, together with Town Council staff.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060607.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThere were also some exciting activities in the Car Park for all ages.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060609.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Friends of the Open Air Pool stall you could stick a flag in a square on an Old Map of Abingdon, and have the chance of winning a prize.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060614.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nMusic in the Park followed later in the day. A sell out crowd watched bands such as Hippy Haze, the Undercovers (pictured above) &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060613.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nPrisoners Of Katrina &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060612.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nand Green Onions.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060615.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe evening ended with Abingdon Town Band playing The Proms<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060621.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nfollowed by fireworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby&#8217;s Vintage Fair was in the Guildhall today. One stall had artwork based on the Bunty Comics. My wife said &#8220;their stories were so exciting at the time.&#8221; Fun in The Park was happening in the Abbey Parks, and there were lots of exciting play activities for the children Abingdon Rotary Club were there with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}