{"id":3790,"date":"2019-08-03T19:15:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T18:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2019-08-05T18:26:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T17:26:06","slug":"day-83-patience-is-a-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=3790","title":{"rendered":"Day 84 – Patience Is A Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some folk have it in spades, unfortunately I don’t…more to follow. We cast off and motored a few hundred metres to Waitrose and picked up a paper and some strawberries for my smoothies. Toby baked the white sourdough loaf, having left out the wholemeal flour so it was quite a treat for lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It wasn’t long before we reached our first lock. We were going up today, and it was lock five before we saw another boater on the move. The centre line wasn’t long enough with these deep locks, we ended up tying the stern rope and the centre rope together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slow progress through some sections with miles and miles of moored boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We caught up rather quickly with a hire boater who was going very slowly, we were on tickover for quite some time (testing of patience #1). He must have thought he was cool using his backside to steer, I can tell you, I had other ideas where to stick that tiller!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We reached Iron lock, at first we thought there must be a line of moored boats, we then realised they were all queuing for the lock (testing of patience #2). It took 90 mins before it was our turn<\/p>\n\n\n\n