{"id":34903,"date":"2026-01-24T23:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34903"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:21:13","slug":"after-the-snow-queen-whats-happening-around-abingdon-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34903","title":{"rendered":"After the Snow Queen, What\u2019s Happening Around Abingdon this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026012401.jpg\" alt=\"Whats on\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Drama Club\u2019s Snow Queen finished its run this evening. A fantastic production: by turns haunting and genuinely funny. If you missed it, you missed something special.<br \/>\n(Image credit: garethclark photography, with his Snow Queen picture superimposed and blurred over the theatre steps by me.)<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s plenty more happening in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026011509.jpg\" alt=\"Whats on\" \/><br \/>\nThe Giant Jumble Sale at Fitzharrys School takes place on Sunday 25 January. It\u2019s a two-hour sale, with items priced to sell.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026011502.jpg\" alt=\"Whats on\" \/><br \/>\nThe next Agnostics Anonymous meeting, on Tuesday 27 January, will explore the interplay between drama, poetry, fiction and spiritual experience.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026011506.jpg\" alt=\"Whats on\" \/><br \/>\nThere\u2019s been much recent talk of otter sightings around Abingdon. On Wednesday 28 January there will be a talk, <em>The Otter in England<\/em>, looking at our long history with otters, how we nearly lost them, how they returned, and what the future may hold.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026011510.jpg\" alt=\"Whats on\" \/><br \/>\nSimon Mason in conversation with Eve Smith, this Thursday 29 January at Abingdon Library, is fully booked.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026011511.jpg\" alt=\"Whats on\" \/><br \/>\nThere are, however, a few places left for Nicki Thornton (formerly of Mostly Books), who after a successful run of younger reader novels now has a book for adults. She\u2019ll be at Abingdon Library on Saturday 31 January.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026012402.jpg\" alt=\"Whats on\" \/><br \/>\nAlso at Abingdon Library, the sky in the Abingdon jigsaw &#8211; featured last week &#8211; is still outwitting some of the town\u2019s best jigsaw solvers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Drama Club\u2019s Snow Queen finished its run this evening. A fantastic production: by turns haunting and genuinely funny. If you missed it, you missed something special. (Image credit: garethclark photography, with his Snow Queen picture superimposed and blurred over the theatre steps by me.) But there\u2019s plenty more happening in Abingdon. The Giant [&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-34903","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\/34903","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=34903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}