{"id":32847,"date":"2024-10-24T22:34:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T21:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32847"},"modified":"2024-10-24T22:34:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T21:34:24","slug":"clubs-and-societies-looking-for-a-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32847","title":{"rendered":"Clubs and Societies &#8211; Looking for a Speaker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024102401.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTrinity Evergreens hosted a talk on Monday by Ann and John Ford, a couple whose lives have been taken over by their Morris Minors. The talk, called &#8220;Morris Minors in the Media&#8221;, began when they took a Morris Minor to a car show and discovered a business card on their windscreen asking if it could be hired for a film. <\/p>\n<p>From that beginning, their interest in Morris Minors developed into a business, and they built up a collection of Morris Minors. They helped supply a fleet of 32 cars for the film &#8220;The Borrowers.&#8221; Their vehicles have been featured in commercials, fashion shoots, weddings, and TV series. Mr. Ford became friendly with Anthony Hopkins, and used to get him a newspaper and read him the news and drive the Morris Minor during filming of &#8220;Shadowlands.&#8221; They appeared with Fiona Bruce in Antiques Road Show.<\/p>\n<p>Trinity Evergreens (at Trinity Church) have other interesting speakers booked for the upcoming year. There is a waiting list to join the club. Ann and John Ford are available for public speaking engagements. Try aandj.ford2019 at gmail.com or 07831 519 478. (The picture is from <em>Clubs and Societies Day<\/em> in Abingdon in 2023.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity Evergreens hosted a talk on Monday by Ann and John Ford, a couple whose lives have been taken over by their Morris Minors. The talk, called &#8220;Morris Minors in the Media&#8221;, began when they took a Morris Minor to a car show and discovered a business card on their windscreen asking if it could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32847","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=32847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}