{"id":5818,"date":"2012-02-12T15:37:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2012-02-12T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T15:37:17","slug":"twitter-snow-ball-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5818","title":{"rendered":"Twitter snow ball roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I follow 180 different feeds on Twitter. Many of them are Abingdon based.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021205.jpg\" alt=\"Snow ball roundup\" \/><br \/>\nSome people who used to do blogs have moved over to twitter. Last week I read from, one such, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/@nbthegreenman\">@nbthegreenman<\/a>, &#8221; of the frozen canal, and then a little later &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It&#8217;s minus 8 outside already. Has someone stolen the Gulf Stream?<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021207.jpg\" alt=\"Snow ball roundup\" \/><br \/>\nThings were touch and go over coverage of a Rugby Football match at The Kings Head and Bell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/@KingsAbingdon\">@KingsAbingdon<\/a> , last night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Everyone lost the rugby? Or just us?&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then a few minutes later<em> &#8220;SIX NATIONS France v Ireland postponed moments before scheduled 2000 GMT kick-off because of a frozen pitch&#8221; now it all makes sense.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021202.jpg\" alt=\"Snow ball roundup\" \/><br \/>\nEvery evening I get a tweet from Oxfordshire County Council &#8220;<em>Salting update: gritters will be out across the county from 7pm this evening<\/em>.&#8221; At first it seemed a OTT, but not for the last week. Even the new grit bins have been opened, and are being used.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021211.jpg\" alt=\"Snow ball roundup\" \/><br \/>\nFrom\u00a0Abingdon Camera Club <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/@AbingdonCamera\">@AbingdonCamera<\/a> &#8230; &#8220;<em>Next meeting 16th February, Felicity will talk about Photos by the Riverside, followed by Chris on DSLR exposure. Come and bring a friend.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Camera Club run the annual Abingdon Arts Festival photo competition, where there is also an under age 16 section. Closing date 3rd March. Entry forms and rules are available  at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110227150853\/http:\/\/www.abingdoncameraclub.org.uk:80\/wp\/abingdon-arts-festival\">Abingdon Camera Club<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Soon at the\u00a0Broad Face <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/@TheBroadFace \">@TheBroadFace <\/a>there will be &#8220;<em>live entertainment with Roy Alvin&#8217;s Reeds United.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lots more where these come from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I follow 180 different feeds on Twitter. Many of them are Abingdon based. Some people who used to do blogs have moved over to twitter. Last week I read from, one such, @nbthegreenman, &#8221; of the frozen canal, and then a little later &#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s minus 8 outside already. Has someone stolen the Gulf Stream?&#8221; [&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-5818","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\/5818","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=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}