{"id":34755,"date":"2025-12-22T22:41:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34755"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:41:49","slug":"advent-windows-creativity-and-community-west-of-oxford-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34755","title":{"rendered":"Advent Windows: Creativity and Community west of Oxford Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025122201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThroughout Advent, a number of\u00a0 roads \/ estates in Abingdon have been revealing Advent windows, one day at a time. This evening I looked in on some of the estates just to the west of Oxford Road, where there is a strong sense of community and creativity on display. On the Workhouse Estate (Abbott Road and Thesiger Road and a bit of Oxford Road) there are a wide variety of Advent windows. These examples were for Day 18<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025122202.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nand Day 19. Residents are inviting donations in support of Helen &amp; Douglas House.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025122227.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFurther north, South Avenue and Holland Road have gone even further, often revealing three windows for each day. Shown here are the windows for Day 3<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025122224.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nand Day 4, with donations being collected for the Abingdon Bridge charity.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025122263d.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNearby on Picklers Hill, many trees have been decorated with lights, creating a festive trail along the road. Among them is what could be the biggest decorated tree in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025122262.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPicklers Hill also features decorated shop windows as part of an Advent calendar. They are collecting for Oxford Wood Recycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout Advent, a number of\u00a0 roads \/ estates in Abingdon have been revealing Advent windows, one day at a time. This evening I looked in on some of the estates just to the west of Oxford Road, where there is a strong sense of community and creativity on display. On the Workhouse Estate (Abbott Road [&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-34755","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\/34755","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=34755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}