{"id":5805,"date":"2012-02-11T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2012-02-11T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T12:48:00","slug":"snow-and-ice-and-a-little-creative-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5805","title":{"rendered":"Snow and Ice and a little creative thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021103.jpg\" alt=\"Snow and Ice\" \/><br \/>\nI wondered whether I would be able to get to work when the snow was falling. The on line forecast predicted snow before midnight on Thursday, lessening overnight, then getting very cold by Friday night&#8230; So far the forecast has been spot on.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021110.jpg\" alt=\"Snow and Ice\" \/><br \/>\nBy Friday morning the snow had stopped and public transport seemed to be running to time &#8211; possibly not the wrong sort of snow, or possibly we are getting better at it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12020705.jpg\" alt=\"Snow and Ice\" \/><br \/>\nFriday night did turn very cold and icicles had formed above the weir this morning (Saturday).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021108.jpg\" alt=\"Snow and Ice\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;d love to see a few inches of water left in the outdoor pool for times like these so it could open as an ice rink. The idea is probably not feasible but it would be good to see the area being used out of the swimming season in other ways.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021113.jpg\" alt=\"Snow and Ice\" \/><br \/>\nAnother recent idea that somebody suggested for the Diamond Jubilee, which got into the Herald, was to move Queen Victoria back to the Market Place. A well placed piece of art there would be good. Maybe something called the Bun Throwers or Bun Catchers would do.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021112.jpg\" alt=\"Snow and Ice\" \/><br \/>\nWork has now started in earnest on the land behind the Abbey Gardens to build the care home. A large drill has been operating there.<\/p>\n<p>Another recent idea to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee, that made the Herald front page, was a bandstand. This has long been suggested by the leader of one of Abingdon&#8217;s two brass bands, and the people in the care home would get free entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered whether I would be able to get to work when the snow was falling. The on line forecast predicted snow before midnight on Thursday, lessening overnight, then getting very cold by Friday night&#8230; So far the forecast has been spot on. By Friday morning the snow had stopped and public transport seemed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","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=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}