{"id":34195,"date":"2025-09-01T23:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34195"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:01:03","slug":"this-week-in-abingdon-healthfest-horticulture-swim-for-dogs-and-folk-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34195","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Abingdon: HealthFest, Horticulture, Swim for Dogs, and Folk Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025090102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Abingdon HealthFest<\/em> returns to the Market Place on Saturday 6th September, from 10am to 2pm. This annual event brings together sports clubs, care providers, community groups, and charities \u2014 with demonstrations and advice, some of which could even prove life-saving. The Mayor will be on hand to tour the stalls and chat with participants. See full details here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthyabingdon.org.uk\/healthfest2025.htm\">Healthy Abingdon<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025090101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Horticultural Society Autumn Show (Sat 6th September, Northcourt Centre) offers a colourful range of competition classes \u2014 flowers, fruit and veg, floral arrangements, homecraft, preserves, baking, beverages, photography, and children\u2019s entries \u2014 with cups and medals up for grabs. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025090104.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abbey Meadow Outdoor Pool has just one more week left of the season. It closes on Monday 8th September after the popular <em>Swim for Dogs<\/em> event in the afternoon and evening. Expect plenty of owners trying to coax their dogs into the pool and some more enthusiastic doggy paddlers. Places are booking fast.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025090105.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn Thursday 4th September, there\u2019s live Americana-style folk music with Roswell Road at the Unicorn Theatre, part of the Music at the Unicorn series, with support from Sarah Yeo. More details: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicattheunicorn.org.uk\/\">musicattheunicorn.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And looking ahead \u2014 more events are on the way, including Heritage Day. I\u2019ll highlight those separately in a few days time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon HealthFest returns to the Market Place on Saturday 6th September, from 10am to 2pm. This annual event brings together sports clubs, care providers, community groups, and charities \u2014 with demonstrations and advice, some of which could even prove life-saving. The Mayor will be on hand to tour the stalls and chat with participants. See [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34195","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=34195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}