{"id":35477,"date":"2026-05-30T21:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35477"},"modified":"2026-05-30T21:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:48:04","slug":"local-excellence-market-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35477","title":{"rendered":"Local Excellence Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Local Excellence Market - 30th May 2026\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fyXR05UMASw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Local Excellence Market enjoyed a sunny day on Abingdon Market Place. I made a short video from the County Hall roof, looking down on visitors browsing the stalls, meeting local makers and stopping for refreshments.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026053004.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was ice cream on offer from Tipple and Snow, made from Oxfordshire organic milk.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026053003.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nVisitors could also relax at tables outside the usual Market Place caf\u00e9s.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026053006a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe plant stall was popular as people tried to add some colour to their gardens.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026053005.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAmong those exhibiting was local artist Clare Cross, who had her new Abingdon Bag, decorated with local landmarks in silhouette.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026053007.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nClare also had her &#8216;A\u2013Z of Abingdon&#8217; design. She has also produced an A\u2013Z of Wallingford and is now working on the A\u2013Z of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing Clare&#8217;s A\u2013Z reminded me that I once put together my own A\u2013Z of Abingdon on Instagram, using a different letter each day. Unfortunately Instagram insists on displaying the posts in reverse chronological order, so A\u2013Z appears as a Z\u2013A. You can still find it on my Instagram page if you don&#8217;t mind reading backwards through the alphabet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/abingdonblog\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/abingdonblog\/<\/a> and peculiarities of Instagram like being forced to sign in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Local Excellence Market enjoyed a sunny day on Abingdon Market Place. I made a short video from the County Hall roof, looking down on visitors browsing the stalls, meeting local makers and stopping for refreshments. There was ice cream on offer from Tipple and Snow, made from Oxfordshire organic milk. Visitors could also relax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477","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=35477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}