{"id":18547,"date":"2017-05-06T23:21:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T22:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18547"},"modified":"2017-05-06T23:21:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T22:21:50","slug":"evening-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18547","title":{"rendered":"Evening Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We walked down the Ock Valley Walk this evening. Birds were singing as it was getting dark.  Every so often we walked through a cloud of midges. Last night I saw a big fish leap out of the water, but not this evening.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17050603.jpg\" alt=\"Hatwells\" \/><br \/>\nIn Ladygrove Meadow, just off the Ock Bridge, Hatwells Fun Fair are there for the weekend. They have been coming to Abingdon for a couple of decades to my knowledge. It is good sized funfair with good rides but did not seem that busy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17050607.jpg\" alt=\"Hatwells\" \/><br \/>\nWe walked through the Albert Park and along Park Road and then came to the lights of Bath Street which always look good at night. The Bella Napoli was full.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17050608.jpg\" alt=\"Hatwells\" \/><br \/>\nWe looked in at shop windows. <\/p>\n<p>A rock band struck up at the Black Swan. Taxis were queued back round the Square including that yellow London-style cab. The Narrows pub and Grapes opposite looked particularly busy. <\/p>\n<p>Then home. Oxfordshire Artweeks is happening so we checked out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artweeks.org\/\">their website<\/a> to see what is on tomorrow. I&#8217;m looking forward to the church service at <a href=\"http:\/\/trinityabingdon.org.uk\/\">Trinity tomorrow<\/a>. The Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Reformed Church, Revd. Kevin Watson, is visiting. Then we will go to somewhere completely different for some art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We walked down the Ock Valley Walk this evening. Birds were singing as it was getting dark. Every so often we walked through a cloud of midges. Last night I saw a big fish leap out of the water, but not this evening. In Ladygrove Meadow, just off the Ock Bridge, Hatwells Fun Fair are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547","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=18547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}