{"id":3404,"date":"2019-07-15T19:42:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T18:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2019-07-15T19:42:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T18:42:45","slug":"day-65-gaining-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=3404","title":{"rendered":"Day 65 – Gaining Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A fabulous Monday morning with warmth in the air and blue skies. It wasn’t so fabulous for Toby with his continued migraine. If it had just been the two of us, we would have stayed put, we were on a mission of getting Anne-Marie and Simon back to Parbold and their car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Toby stayed down below all day, and between the three of us we did quite well. Simon steered for the majority of the day, with me by his side, and I took over for any tricky bits including four swing bridges with drop offs and pick ups. Anne-Marie was great at taking big leaps off the bow and on to the bank, opening and closing the swing bridges – there is nothing quite like stopping all the traffic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This sculpture of the half buried navvy marks the cutting of the ‘first sod’ of the Leeds and Liverpool canal on the 5th November 1770.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s rare a scene gets a second chance at the blog, but the five frogs have made it as I’m quite fond of them – I like Oliver’s reflection in the glass below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We moored at Parbold in a perfect spot with Simon and Anne-Marie’s car the other side of the bank. Simon and I walked in to the village and found this delightful little fruit and veg shop in a converted house, this room used to be the sitting room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s not often you see someone travelling the towpath on a mobility scooter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We waved off Simon and Anne-Marie wishing them a safe journey back home. Now I’ve got Toby bending my ear ‘see, you can do it when you need to’, my answer is exactly, so leave me be and let me open the locks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A fabulous Monday morning with warmth in the air and blue skies. It wasn’t so fabulous for Toby with his continued migraine. If it had just been the two of us, we would have stayed put, we were on a mission of getting Anne-Marie and Simon back to Parbold and their car. Toby stayed down … Continue reading Day 65 – Gaining Confidence<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3405,"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":[43],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-grand-tour","tag-leeds-liverpool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC05101.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-SU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","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=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/3406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}