{"id":28419,"date":"2022-01-01T21:54:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T20:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28419"},"modified":"2022-01-01T21:54:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T20:54:49","slug":"happy-new-year-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28419","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022010109.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>&#8216;Oyey Oyez Oyez! &#8230; God Bless the Queen and God Bless Abingdon.&#8217;<\/em> The start and the end of the Town Crier&#8217;s cry is always the same. It is just what goes in-between that changes. Today he said <em>&#8216;Happy New Year and welcome to the walk of the ancient Abingdon bounds.&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022010100.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Boundary Walk began on the Market Place at 11 am, just as the rain began. Minutes before, there had been sunshine from over the river and a grey sky everywhere else. The Town Crier accompanying the walk rang his bell and cried at a half dozen stops on the walk. At the Ock Valley, however, he said <em>&#8216;I won&#8217;t ring the bell here. I&#8217;m just spending a moment listening to the birds as we can hear them over the sound of the traffic.&#8217;<\/em> He has a west country accent. More Bristol than the <em>pure Berkshire<\/em> once spoken by Abingdonians.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022010110.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nInformation on the walk was provided by Councillor Helen Pighills who described the original boundaries and told us how a town official once swam over the River Thames from near St Helen&#8217;s Wharf because the boundary runs along the far bank. In another place we took the scenic route rather than sticking strictly to the route &#8211; in order to avoid a narrow pavement and the busy Drayton Road.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022010103.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was no group Christian Aid walk today. Instead walkers can make their own way round. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Oyey Oyez Oyez! &#8230; God Bless the Queen and God Bless Abingdon.&#8217; The start and the end of the Town Crier&#8217;s cry is always the same. It is just what goes in-between that changes. Today he said &#8216;Happy New Year and welcome to the walk of the ancient Abingdon bounds.&#8217; The Abingdon Boundary Walk began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28419","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=28419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}