{"id":25379,"date":"2006-12-11T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/12\/11\/two-weeks-to-go\/"},"modified":"2006-12-11T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T22:23:00","slug":"two-weeks-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25379","title":{"rendered":"Two weeks to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RX3c4iCedVI\/AAAAAAAAALc\/yHFWYQ-VJYI\/s1600-h\/061212brella.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RX3c4iCedVI\/AAAAAAAAALc\/yHFWYQ-VJYI\/s320\/061212brella.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007401224473834834\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This morning it rained and it rained. I&#8217;m sure Winnie the Pooh would have thought up a clever little song about the rain. The camera does get very disorientated by rain and didn&#8217;t manage to focus very well. Maybe:<br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">I&#8217;m a giddy little camera.<br \/>I can&#8217;t work in the rain.<br \/>My works will all get spoiled &#8211;<br \/>And that would be a shame! <\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RX3enCCedWI\/AAAAAAAAALk\/zX04v3tuK0I\/s1600-h\/061211light1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RX3enCCedWI\/AAAAAAAAALk\/zX04v3tuK0I\/s320\/061211light1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007403122849379682\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I brought a Christmas tree home yesterday. The lady in the garden centre, who netted it for me ,suggested sawing off the end of the trunk, which gets hardened over , and putting it to soak for 24 hours in a bucket of water. That done, we put it up and decorated it tonight.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RX3f9iCedXI\/AAAAAAAAALs\/r4hHIZJ-Pvg\/s1600-h\/061211lightbs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RX3f9iCedXI\/AAAAAAAAALs\/r4hHIZJ-Pvg\/s320\/061211lightbs.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007404608908064114\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Now a few night-shots in town to show that Abingdon is getting geared up for the big event. First is The Book Store with their moving polar bears. Above the snow-scene they have a new book about Abingdon &#8211; The Changing Face of Abingdon.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RX3iQiCedaI\/AAAAAAAAAMQ\/kDnEwwMni8U\/s1600-h\/061211lightsi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RX3iQiCedaI\/AAAAAAAAAMQ\/kDnEwwMni8U\/s320\/061211lightsi.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007407134348834210\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This window is from the Stroll-in shop. The see-saw was going up and down&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RX3iziCedbI\/AAAAAAAAAMY\/iJQ9CM2YzAw\/s1600-h\/061211lightww.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RX3iziCedbI\/AAAAAAAAAMY\/iJQ9CM2YzAw\/s320\/061211lightww.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007407735644255666\" \/><\/a><br \/>After this years revamp, the Woolworths front window is up there with the best&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RZ1-rwytSVI\/AAAAAAAAApE\/nkLAbBUKA0g\/s1600-h\/finishmk3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RZ1-rwytSVI\/AAAAAAAAApE\/nkLAbBUKA0g\/s320\/finishmk3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016304850257660242\" \/><\/a><br \/>and the Finishing Touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning it rained and it rained. I&#8217;m sure Winnie the Pooh would have thought up a clever little song about the rain. The camera does get very disorientated by rain and didn&#8217;t manage to focus very well. Maybe:I&#8217;m a giddy little camera.I can&#8217;t work in the rain.My works will all get spoiled &#8211;And that [&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-25379","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\/25379","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=25379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}