{"id":24465,"date":"2020-04-18T23:27:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T22:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24465"},"modified":"2020-04-18T23:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T22:27:51","slug":"pebbles-laundry-bags-cycleway-sun-and-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24465","title":{"rendered":"Pebbles, Laundry Bags, Cycleway, Sun and Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20041807.jpg\" alt=\"Pebbles, Laundry Bags, Cycleway, Sun and Rain\" \/><br \/>\nDiana spotted these pebbles in St John\u2019s Road on a walk this week.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20041808.jpg\" alt=\"Pebbles, Laundry Bags, Cycleway, Sun and Rain\" \/><br \/>\nClare sent me an email to say the Quilters of Abingdon (Abbey Quilters, Fitzharrys Quilters and I\u2019m sure some of their friends) have been making bags so that the midwives at the JR can, when they finish a shift, change, put their uniforms in these bags and put them straight in the washing machine when they get home without spreading germs. The member of Abbey Quilters who is organising this says that nearly 90 bags have been delivered so far and she has another 50 to be taken up this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The bags are about the size of a pillowcase, with a drawstring at the top and must be washable at 60 degrees. They must be washed, pressed and delivered in twos in a ziplock plastic bag.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20041708.jpg\" alt=\"Pebbles, Laundry Bags, Cycleway, Sun and Rain\" \/><br \/>\nI took this picture of the work on the cycleway between Abingdon and Milton Park and Didcot that is being upgraded. They have been making good progress in the last week or so. It is not open yet but nevertheless we were allowed to pass thanks to the workmen.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AQbbOYdjd1g\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nI recorded a video of the same view of Abingdon on 15th April when it was sunny and then 17th April when the rain set it. We have had a lot of sunshine. The last two days have been overcast and with rain. The video shows the contrast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana spotted these pebbles in St John\u2019s Road on a walk this week. Clare sent me an email to say the Quilters of Abingdon (Abbey Quilters, Fitzharrys Quilters and I\u2019m sure some of their friends) have been making bags so that the midwives at the JR can, when they finish a shift, change, put their [&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-24465","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\/24465","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=24465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}