{"id":26471,"date":"2020-12-24T21:19:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T21:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26471"},"modified":"2020-12-24T21:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T21:19:59","slug":"south-abingdon-illuminations-happy-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26471","title":{"rendered":"South Abingdon Illuminations &#8211; Happy Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122402.jpg\" alt=\"South Abingdon Illuminations\" \/><br \/>\nThis Christmas Eve we had more time than usual, and went for a walk round the South Abingdon illuminations. The River Thames had grown as water poured down from the River Ock and other tributaries.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122416.jpg\" alt=\"Weather for Ducks\" \/><br \/>\nWe headed first up Saxton Road which is well lit at Christmas.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122404.jpg\" alt=\"South Abingdon Illuminations\" \/><br \/>\nIf anything there were more lights than usual.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122406.jpg\" alt=\"South Abingdon Illuminations\" \/><br \/>\nThen we headed over to the Tithe Farm Estate where there were far more lights than usual.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122407.jpg\" alt=\"South Abingdon Illuminations\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a mixture of advent windows and outside lights.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122413.jpg\" alt=\"South Abingdon Illuminations\" \/><br \/>\nNext we headed across to Medlicott Drive on the Ladygrove Estate. That short road has more lights per property than any road in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20122410.jpg\" alt=\"South Abingdon Illuminations\" \/><br \/>\nPlants and bare winter trees are festooned with multi-coloured lights.<\/p>\n<p>Walking home, it felt cold. The moon and stars shone clearly above.<\/p>\n<p>We did miss some of the usual Christmas Eve traditions, but did catch a recording of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon-st-helens.org.uk\/Parish\/P_resourcesChristmas2020.html\">St Helen&#8217;s Christingle Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Day will be quieter with less people. I wish you all a Happy and Peaceful Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas Eve we had more time than usual, and went for a walk round the South Abingdon illuminations. The River Thames had grown as water poured down from the River Ock and other tributaries. We headed first up Saxton Road which is well lit at Christmas. If anything there were more lights than usual. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26471","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=26471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}