{"id":2285,"date":"2019-05-19T19:31:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:31:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T10:31:35","slug":"day-8-nosey-parkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2285","title":{"rendered":"Day 8 &#8211; Nosey Parkers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We start off with a photo I took last night, we&#8217;d already published the blog and thought we&#8217;d save it for today &#8211; not bad hey!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01852-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01852-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01852-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01852-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Only two locks today, and there was a queue in the other direction with the chaps doing the locking, so we had an almost free passage. They say women can talk, just put a windlass in a man&#8217;s hand and they&#8217;ll talk for hours about bolinder engines and stuff that passes me by.  One of the guys was from Huddersfield and called me duck &#8211; link to next photo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01862-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01862-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01862-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01862-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It felt like we spent most of the day looking in to people&#8217;s back gardens as the non-towpath side was garden after garden.  We saw quite a few gnomes, and the odd beer shed. The red flower bush really stood out, the colours so vibrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01867-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2283\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2283\" class=\"wp-image-2283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01867-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01867-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01867-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01910-e1558289322799-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2280\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2280\" class=\"wp-image-2280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01910-e1558289322799-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01910-e1558289322799-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01910-e1558289322799.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We were making such good progress, we decided to moor up for lunch and enjoy our ploughmans platter from the stern. I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;d fancy being on the back of this boat, or the two lads sat on top of the bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01891-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01891-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01891-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01891-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual, we went further than planned mooring up at 4.35.  Toby did  some paddling stuff on the laptop while I cooked creamy garlic chicken from scratch &#8211; and very nice it was too.  It&#8217;s Game of Thrones final tonight, and I&#8217;ve dangled Toby a carrot and said if we have an early start (8am&#8230;early by Toby&#8217;s standards!), we can more up at Fradley junction and he can watch it on catch up before all the spoilers are released.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We start off with a photo I took last night, we&#8217;d already published the blog and thought we&#8217;d save it for today &#8211; not bad hey! Only two locks today, and there was a queue in the other direction with the chaps doing the locking, so we had an almost free passage. They say women &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 8 &#8211; Nosey Parkers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2281,"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":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-grand-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC01852.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-AR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","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=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}