{"id":25342,"date":"2006-12-09T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/12\/09\/bright-broken-bike-bbowt-bridge\/"},"modified":"2006-12-09T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T22:18:00","slug":"bright-broken-bike-bbowt-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25342","title":{"rendered":"Bright, Broken Bike, BBOWT, Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXq5jSCedGI\/AAAAAAAAAIc\/IbNO3DkhUTo\/s1600-h\/061209bbrigh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXq5jSCedGI\/AAAAAAAAAIc\/IbNO3DkhUTo\/s320\/061209bbrigh.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006517951564510306\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>There was a very <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">bright<\/span> Bath Street as we strolled into town early this morning.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXq5ZyCedDI\/AAAAAAAAAIE\/7hGY9DQsB8A\/s1600-h\/061209bbike.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXq5ZyCedDI\/AAAAAAAAAIE\/7hGY9DQsB8A\/s320\/061209bbike.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006517788355753010\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In the Stratton Way underpass, a knight of the order of the Holy Cross, and St Edmund of Abingdon were praying over a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">broken bike<\/span> which somebody had left in their care.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXq5aCCedFI\/AAAAAAAAAIU\/X3f4ZoStwdg\/s1600-h\/061209bbowt2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXq5aCCedFI\/AAAAAAAAAIU\/X3f4ZoStwdg\/s320\/061209bbowt2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006517792650720338\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A man-size badger was at the Market Place, waving at little children, and posing for the camera.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXq5aCCedEI\/AAAAAAAAAIM\/FYiT9oNDV5Q\/s1600-h\/061209bbowt1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXq5aCCedEI\/AAAAAAAAAIM\/FYiT9oNDV5Q\/s320\/061209bbowt1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006517792650720322\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The badger was part of the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BBOWT<\/span> craft market on the Market Place and in the Guildhall. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbowt.org.uk\/\">BBOWT<\/a> stands for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire  Wildlife Trust. Older readers may remember they were BBONT (N for Nature).<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXq5vyCedII\/AAAAAAAAAIs\/741EZtIi7tc\/s1600-h\/061209bridge2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXq5vyCedII\/AAAAAAAAAIs\/741EZtIi7tc\/s320\/061209bridge2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006518166312875138\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Also on the Market Place were representatives of The Abingdon <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bridge<\/span> with a stall letting people know what they do (they are an information, support, and training service for young people). They have a 2007 calendar costing \u00a34.99.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXq5riCedHI\/AAAAAAAAAIk\/Vldj2a60LDs\/s1600-h\/061209bridge1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXq5riCedHI\/AAAAAAAAAIk\/Vldj2a60LDs\/s320\/061209bridge1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006518093298431090\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The December calendar girl could be a future nurse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a very bright Bath Street as we strolled into town early this morning.In the Stratton Way underpass, a knight of the order of the Holy Cross, and St Edmund of Abingdon were praying over a broken bike which somebody had left in their care.A man-size badger was at the Market Place, waving at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25342","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=25342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}