{"id":35983,"date":"2026-10-03T21:38:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35983"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:38:37","slug":"what-was-happening-in-abingdon-town-centre-this-saturday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35983","title":{"rendered":"What was happening in Abingdon town centre this Saturday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026100303.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Salvation Army were holding a jumble sale this morning. Tables were full of low\u2011priced items, starting from 10p, with donated clothes, books, games, and a bric\u2011a\u2011brac stall. The A\u2011board outside let me know it was happening. I\u2019d missed it on the blog\u2019s \u2018What\u2019s On\u2019 yesterday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026100304.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe window display at the Helen &amp; Douglas House charity shop has a wedding theme, with brides dressed in white.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026100301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn the Market Place there was a visit from Guide Dogs, with two Labradors and a couple of gazebos offering merchandise and information. Collectors with tins were taking donations and handing out stickers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026100302.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTraffic moved in a slow queue through town from Bridge Street and West St Helen Street, and at St Helen\u2019s Church Revd Dr AKMA and a man in a kilt with bagpipes were waiting for the bride to arrive. Her car eventually made it through the queue of vehicles, and the piper piped a welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Salvation Army were holding a jumble sale this morning. Tables were full of low\u2011priced items, starting from 10p, with donated clothes, books, games, and a bric\u2011a\u2011brac stall. The A\u2011board outside let me know it was happening. I\u2019d missed it on the blog\u2019s \u2018What\u2019s On\u2019 yesterday. The window display at the Helen &amp; Douglas House [&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-35983","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\/35983","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=35983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}