{"id":24325,"date":"2020-03-28T16:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24325"},"modified":"2020-03-28T16:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T15:31:58","slug":"coronavirus-lockdown-day-5-empty-highways-and-temporary-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24325","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 5 &#8211; Empty Highways and Workers Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032801.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 5\" \/><br \/>\nMartin Buckland took this picture of the A34 at 15.30 on Friday 27th March 2020 when in normal times both lanes would be full going north, either with slow-moving or stationary traffic. It was taken from the Sunningwell bridleway bridge and Martin had to wait till there was traffic to photograph. Most of it was lorries.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032802.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 5\" \/><br \/>\nOn our exercise walk today we first crossed the Market Place to post a letter in the outside box rather than going into the Co-op. That was about midday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032803.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 5\" \/><br \/>\nWe headed down Bridge Street for a walk along the Thames Path and back by the Causeway.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032804.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 5\" \/><br \/>\nA rope cordon had been put round one boat with the notice &#8216;<em>Due to Corona &#8211; Please Respect Boaters Space.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>All except one deckchair had been collapsed as it was much colder than the previous few days and nobody was sitting outside.<\/p>\n<p>The path towards Culham was a little busier than usual with people out for a walk. Most people maintained a safe distance on passing..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032806.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 5\" \/><br \/>\nFrom the causeway we could see a tractor going back and forth across a wide field, preparing the ground for next summer&#8217;s crop. We are reminded how important food production is after the experience of wide scale empty supermarket shelves. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032807.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 5\" \/><br \/>\nI was also sent a list of national job opportunities showing there is a lot of work available in the NHS, supermarkets, warehouses, delivery services, and care homes. Some jobs are temporary during the current pandemic, and some permanent. I expect the farmers will soon also need a hand to help pick crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Buckland took this picture of the A34 at 15.30 on Friday 27th March 2020 when in normal times both lanes would be full going north, either with slow-moving or stationary traffic. It was taken from the Sunningwell bridleway bridge and Martin had to wait till there was traffic to photograph. Most of it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24325","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=24325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}