{"id":1133,"date":"2017-06-03T19:28:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T18:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2017-06-03T19:28:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T18:28:47","slug":"slow-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1133","title":{"rendered":"Slow Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progress was a little slow today &#8211; we certainly notice the difference going upstream on the Kennet compared to downstream on the Thames. The locks along here are enormous, and the gates big and heavy along with it. Sarah found the &#8220;stirrup&#8221; steps for getting up \/ down from the lock beams a bit tricky too, missing a couple of times on the way down!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1131\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/stirrup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1131\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/stirrup-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/stirrup-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/stirrup-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/stirrup-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Awkward stirrup steps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The boat got knocked around a fair bit in the locks; we found the centre rope just wasn&#8217;t enough so ended up using both bow and stern lines to keep Oliver steady.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, the scenery is very pretty, with most of the river \/ canal surrounded by countryside up until Thatcham.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1130\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/heron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1130\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/heron-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/heron-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/heron-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/heron-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another Heron! This one expertly snapped by Sarah.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1132\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/treelined.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1132\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/treelined-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/treelined-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/treelined-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/treelined-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some sections are heavily wooded and quite bendy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We moored up around 4pm, which gave time for Sarah to nip to the co-op to buy even more food supplies, and Toby to give the boat roof a bit of a much-needed wash.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1135\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/washing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1135 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/washing-e1496514180329-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/washing-e1496514180329-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/washing-e1496514180329-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Should have bought a 40 footer instead!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No chicken dinner tonight &#8211; but a lovely lamb tagine instead &#8211; and then some more America&#8217;s cup sailing to watch in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress was a little slow today &#8211; we certainly notice the difference going upstream on the Kennet compared to downstream on the Thames. The locks along here are enormous, and the gates big and heavy along with it. Sarah found the &#8220;stirrup&#8221; steps for getting up \/ down from the lock beams a bit tricky &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slow Saturday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-1133","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-ih","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}