{"id":24639,"date":"2020-05-15T22:46:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T21:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24639"},"modified":"2020-05-15T22:46:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T21:46:27","slug":"evening-walk-abingdon-bridge-and-prize-sudoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24639","title":{"rendered":"Evening Walk &#8211; Abingdon Bridge and Prize Sudoku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051500.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon nightlife is still closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and there were a lot of people out walking this evening on the banks of the River Thames in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051503.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nWe crossed Abingdon Bridge.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051505.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nThen walked along, seeing St Helen&#8217;s Church silhouetted with the sun setting behind.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051506.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nSomebody has hung up masks from a tree, and they caught the last sun of the day.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051510.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nWe then walked back towards Abingdon Lock. There were lots of geese and insects about in Rye Farm Meadow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051520.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nThe Environment Agency said on May 7th &#8216;<i>Government restrictions due to Coronavirus 2020: these restrictions aim to stop all non-essential travel and minimise contact to slow the spread of the virus. A transit van is blocking navigation in the Iffley reach. Osney Lock has a mechanical failure. Sandford and Abingdon Locks have been damaged through misuse. Marsh Lock currently has a tree blocking vessel passage. Sunbury Lock has a sunken boat in the main channel above the lock cut.&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The water in Abingdon Lock is looking stagnant through not being used.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051514.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nThere is a long narrow pathway over the weir and people walk both ways, and so advice is given on observing social distancing rules. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051518.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nBack in Abingdon there is a shop in Lombard Street that is between lessees, and the windows have been covered with newspapers from April 1st and before.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051519.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nIt includes Prize Sudoku and people panic buying toilet paper. <\/p>\n<p>These days the supermarket shelves are full of toilet paper. When I went shopping last week, for a house I support, the things on the list that I could not find were self raising flour, and soda crystals. It varies. The previous time it was eggs and frozen fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon nightlife is still closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and there were a lot of people out walking this evening on the banks of the River Thames in Abingdon. We crossed Abingdon Bridge. Then walked along, seeing St Helen&#8217;s Church silhouetted with the sun setting behind. Somebody has hung up masks from a tree, [&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-24639","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\/24639","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=24639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}