{"id":1125,"date":"2017-06-02T20:01:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2017-06-05T20:07:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:07:31","slug":"winner-winner-chicken-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another lovely morning, and we enjoyed the sunshine on the river. There seemed to be more boats out today, and we had to wait at every lock, and they were all full with narrowboats and cruisers. \u00a0The lock keepers seem to be in a bit of \u00a0rush on this stretch, and don&#8217;t check that you&#8217;re ready before opening the sluices, so no cake offered I&#8217;m afraid<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1123\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/postbox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1123 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/postbox-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/postbox-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/postbox-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/postbox.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A postbox in the middle of the river bank!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A right hand turn off the Thames, and we were on the Kennet and Avon. Would you believe, there are traffic lights through Reading shopping centre. \u00a0I had great fun using the hook to press the button, I felt like a jouster, and even said &#8216;charge&#8217; as I approached, I did get some funny looks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1124\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trafficLights.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1124 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trafficLights-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trafficLights-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trafficLights.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic lights on the river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1122\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oracle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1122 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oracle-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oracle-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oracle-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oracle.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travelling through the Oracle Shopping Centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first four locks or so are horrible, with really heavy gates, and fierce water streams even with only one paddle half open. \u00a0We really did seem to make slow progress through these locks. \u00a0We also got our first major scratch on Oliver, the stern of the boat got caught by a lock pontoon and left its mark!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/bigLock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1121 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/bigLock-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/bigLock-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/bigLock.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big locks on the K&amp;A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And why the title I hear you ask? \u00a0Winners all round with both Toby and I winning \u00a325 on the premium bonds, and a chicken dinner for supper!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another lovely morning, and we enjoyed the sunshine on the river. There seemed to be more boats out today, and we had to wait at every lock, and they were all full with narrowboats and cruisers. \u00a0The lock keepers seem to be in a bit of \u00a0rush on this stretch, and don&#8217;t check that you&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol-2017"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-i9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}