{"id":34819,"date":"2026-01-05T21:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34819"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:21:12","slug":"a-cold-day-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34819","title":{"rendered":"A cold day in town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026010504.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFrom early this morning the recycling lorry has made its rounds through central and Abingdon, catching up and collecting far more than usual: the cardboard boxes, bottles, and wrapping paper of Christmas. Before Christmas there had been a press release warning that household waste would only be collected if bin lids were fully closed, as &#8216;there is a real risk that an overfilled bin won\u2019t attach properly to the lifting equipment&#8217; and could cause damage. Even so, the crews seemed to manage this large post-Christmas clear-up without rejecting many bins.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026010502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOnly a small amount of snow fell three days ago, but with clear skies and temperatures staying at or below freezing, it lingers, melting only where the winter sun reaches it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026010503.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe cold was felt in the Market Place. Quite a few stallholders were there, among them Martin, selling off some of his photographic cards at \u00a31 each.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026010507.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere were also plenty of spring bulbs for sale, a reminder that warmer days are not far away.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026010508.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAs the Market was cleared away in the afternoon, the Christmas lights could still be seen.<\/p>\n<p>As darkness fell and temperatures dropped further, the gritting lorries came out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From early this morning the recycling lorry has made its rounds through central and Abingdon, catching up and collecting far more than usual: the cardboard boxes, bottles, and wrapping paper of Christmas. Before Christmas there had been a press release warning that household waste would only be collected if bin lids were fully closed, as [&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-34819","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\/34819","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=34819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}