{"id":1482,"date":"2017-07-07T17:35:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T16:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2017-07-07T17:41:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T16:41:49","slug":"1482","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1482","title":{"rendered":"A Rural Delight"},"content":{"rendered":"

We cast off at 7:45 today.\u00a0 It was another lovely morning with a sky that looked as if it was stuffed with cotton wool balls.<\/p>\n

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Cotton wool sky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In fact the whole day was most enjoyable.\u00a0 It remained hot and quite sunny up until around 3pm but there were always a few clouds around and quite a number of shady areas under the trees so there was some respite from the sun.<\/p>\n

Shipton Weir Lock, which could perhaps be Shipton Weird Lock, is hexagonal, or octagonal if you count the gates, and has warning lights which are doubtless very helpful when the Cherwell is in spate.\u00a0 As we passed it was very sedate.<\/p>\n

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Shipton Weird Lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Northbrook Lock was really hard work and an earlier user had put a notice on the gates saying how they were unable to fill it until a wave came from the lock above.\u00a0 Being a honed athlete Peter managed to crack the gate open enough to let some additional water in!<\/p>\n

Just to prove that Peter is superhuman and does everything, Romy took some pictures on her latest beloved gadget.<\/p>\n

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Jack of all trades? No rude comments!\u00a0Dashwoods Lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We saw a few more boats today but not many hire boats.<\/p>\n

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Oxfordshire Narrowboats. Shouldn’t you be out?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In fact every lock had been in our favour until Allen’s Lock.<\/p>\n

We had planned on stopping somewhere around Heyford Common Lock but Straight \u2019n\u2019 Narrow, who we caught up with at Allen\u2019s Lock,\u00a0 and a couple of other boats had said that the gates at Somerton Deep Lock were extremely hard to move.\u00a0 So we decided to push on past this while there were several boats around rather than face that obstacle early the next morning.\u00a0 Straight \u2019n’ Narrow\u2019s owners have a grandson named Oliver and had been trying to get a photo of Oliver since they first saw us several days ago.<\/p>\n

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Entering Somerton Deep Lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Looking back from Somerton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pearson says that the Oxford Canal is at its most charming and sublime between Thrupp and Heyford.\u00a0 We certainly found it a most attractive section all the way to the other side of Somerton Deep Lock where we moored just beyond the lifting bridge 193.\u00a0 This is a quiet rural place just far enough from the railway.<\/p>\n

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Qunitessential English countryside at Dashwoods Lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We cast off at 7:45 today.\u00a0 It was another lovely morning with a sky that looked as if it was stuffed with cotton wool balls. In fact the whole day was most enjoyable.\u00a0 It remained hot and quite sunny up until around 3pm but there were always a few clouds around and quite a number … Continue reading A Rural Delight<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol-2017"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8PLyH-1482","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}