{"id":26466,"date":"2020-12-23T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26466"},"modified":"2020-12-23T14:17:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:17:17","slug":"reports-from-the-white-horse-district-council-but-no-christmas-quackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26466","title":{"rendered":"Reports from the White Horse District Council but no Christmas Quackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone whose green wheelie bin day should have been emptied on Friday 25th will have to wait until Tuesday 29th because Friday 25th is Christmas Day. I found that out on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk\/vale-of-white-horse-district-council\/recycling-rubbish-and-waste\/when-is-your-collection-day\/\">White Horse DC<\/a> website.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122207.jpg\" alt=\"Weather for Ducks\" \/><br \/>\nThe web site also has a news release from 22nd December, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk\/vale-of-white-horse-district-council\/cabinet-decision-on-old-abbey-house-accepted-by-watchdog\/\">Cabinet decision on Old Abbey House accepted by watchdog<\/a>. The decision on the future of Old Abbey House was made on 4th December and will not be announced until the new year. The Council\u2019s Scrutiny Committee found on 15th December\u00a0the <em>process to be fair, and no information was unduly kept from the public<\/em> and they asked for <em>complete transparency in communicating the decision where possible<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The council also have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk\/uncategorised\/new-covid-19-grants-available-now-for-pubs\/\">New Covid-19 grants available now for pubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are asked to Protect friends and family this Christmas and help stop the spread of Covid-19 and so there will be no great Christmas getaway this year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122204.jpg\" alt=\"Weather for Ducks\" \/><br \/>\nA lot of people have already finished work for Christmas, but key workers in the health service and care homes work throughout.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122205a.jpg\" alt=\"Weather for Ducks\" \/><br \/>\nThe mid winter so far has been bleak because of the national news but not frosty. There were snowdrops outside Old Abbey House today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122206.jpg\" alt=\"Weather for Ducks\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a lot of rain today, and somebody said to me that it was lovely weather for ducks. Curious as to whether it really was so lovely I went to ask a couple. I did not get a reply &#8211; not a single quack. I have no Christmas quackers to report this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone whose green wheelie bin day should have been emptied on Friday 25th will have to wait until Tuesday 29th because Friday 25th is Christmas Day. I found that out on the White Horse DC website. The web site also has a news release from 22nd December, titled Cabinet decision on Old Abbey House accepted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,47,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-council","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26466","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}