{"id":1596,"date":"2017-09-16T18:26:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T17:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2017-09-16T18:26:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T17:26:17","slug":"birthday-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had our earliest start this week, with a 9am cast off, it was a little rushed as a hire boat was just about to leave the lock, so we seized our chance! \u00a0There was a group of swans on the towpath, so I went armed with a few slices of bread as a distraction.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1595\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/narrowBoating.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1595 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/narrowBoating-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/narrowBoating-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/narrowBoating-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/narrowBoating.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toby expertly steering us through all the moored boats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once through the locks, we motored through Blisworth tunnel with only one boat coming the other way. \u00a0We wanted to get a photo of the air shafts , although it was a but tricky as you can&#8217;t see them ahead, and then all the water is dripping down them!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1594\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/airDuct.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1594 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/airDuct-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/airDuct-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/airDuct-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/airDuct.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air shaft in Blisworth Tunnel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was somewhat cooler today, so we had our jackets, hats and gloves on. \u00a0Toby was the pied piper collecting ducks with the leftover bread supplies<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1593\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ducks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1593 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ducks-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ducks-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ducks-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ducks.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feeding the ducks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1592\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wrappedUp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1592 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wrappedUp-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wrappedUp-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wrappedUp.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chilly on the canal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We arrived back at Heyford Fields marina about 12.15. \u00a0I was talked in to taking us in to the marina, and then reversing on to the pump out pontoon. \u00a0I did OK [Ed: more thank ok!] , although I did have Toby&#8217;s expert tuition and light winds! \u00a0We finally got Oliver back on his mooring at 12.45. \u00a0A cuppa and a cookie with Brian and Lorraine, and then we packed up the car.<\/p>\n<p>What a fab birthday, and a lovely end to our honeymoon. \u00a0I felt a little sad that it&#8217;s come to the end, Toby said it&#8217;s just the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our earliest start this week, with a 9am cast off, it was a little rushed as a hire boat was just about to leave the lock, so we seized our chance! \u00a0There was a group of swans on the towpath, so I went armed with a few slices of bread as a distraction. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birthday Girl<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honeymoon-2017"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-pK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","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=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}