{"id":26102,"date":"2020-10-14T20:43:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26102"},"modified":"2020-10-14T20:43:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:43:35","slug":"changes-by-the-thames-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26102","title":{"rendered":"Changes by the Thames in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101407.jpg\" alt=\"Old Abbey House\" \/><br \/>\nA heated beer tent has appeared on Nags Head Island. The Nags Head pub say <em>&#8216;Oktoberfest in Munich might have been cancelled but Oktoberfest on The Thames hasn\u2019t!&#8217;<\/em> It is from Friday 16th October to Sunday 18th October.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101408.jpg\" alt=\"Old Abbey House\" \/><br \/>\nScaffolding has appeared round the stone grotto in the garden of Coseners House. The work will make the grotto safe to use. The grotto has two chambers, and an external staircase and lookout. I do not know who or why it was built but my guess is that it was a 19th century folly.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101409.jpg\" alt=\"Old Abbey House\" \/><br \/>\nWork is progressing on the new Kingfisher Canoe Club storage and changing hut.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101411.jpg\" alt=\"Old Abbey House\" \/><br \/>\nA new information board has appeared at the Wildflower Maze in the Abbey Grounds. The maze has been cut back for the winter. The little stacks give a place for some wildlife to spend the winter.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101413.jpg\" alt=\"Old Abbey House\" \/><br \/>\nWork continues on the Route 5 cycle path through the Abbey Grounds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101412.jpg\" alt=\"Old Abbey House\" \/><br \/>\nThe narrow, bumpy, muddy track is being widened and evened out and made less muddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heated beer tent has appeared on Nags Head Island. The Nags Head pub say &#8216;Oktoberfest in Munich might have been cancelled but Oktoberfest on The Thames hasn\u2019t!&#8217; It is from Friday 16th October to Sunday 18th October. Scaffolding has appeared round the stone grotto in the garden of Coseners House. The work will make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26102","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=26102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}