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\nBefore lockdown, these meetings took place in the Hearth Room at St Ethelwold’s House, and we each paid \u00a35 towards the hire of the room. Now the meeting are free and St Ethelwold’s House is not getting the income.<\/p>\n
Yesterday the Abingdon Share a Poem group met via zoom and read poems on the theme of Autumn.
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\nBefore lockdown, these meetings took place in the Hearth Room at St Ethelwold’s House, and we each paid \u00a35 towards the hire of the room. Now the meeting are free and St Ethelwold’s House is not getting the income.<\/p>\n
Most poems were by established poets, but some people read their own poems, and they were very enjoyable. Yesterday the Abingdon Share a Poem group met via zoom and read poems on the theme of Autumn. Before lockdown, these meetings took place in the Hearth Room at St Ethelwold’s House, and we each paid \u00a35 towards the hire of the room. Now the meeting are free and St Ethelwold’s House is not getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26082","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=26082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n![\"Remembrance\"](\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020100806.jpg\")
\nPauline, who leads the group, read a poem she had written about Venus – the planet, seen early one morning. Justin read a poem about swallows preparing to leave. David read one on roasting chestnuts.
\n![\"Remembrance\"](\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020100810.jpg\")
\nThe garden at St Ethelwold’s is looking autumnal, but a lot of flowers still remain,
\n![\"Remembrance\"](\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020100808.jpg\")
\nand there are vegetables ready to be dug.
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\nAfter two poems on blackberry picking (Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney<\/a> and Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath<\/a>), we got talking about the farm, on Milton Heights, where Pauline’s daughter had picked a lot of cherries this year. That reminded me I took two pictures through the hedge at that farm: one of blossoms in the spring, and one a few days ago, at the same location. It doesn’t look like the plums will be picked this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"