{"id":461,"date":"2015-07-02T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=461"},"modified":"2016-06-16T21:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T20:18:17","slug":"two-by-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Two by two"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sticky night on the boat and it’s fair to say I was not looking forward to today and another 21 locks. We had a good hour before we hit the first lock and found \u00a0‘Bones’, a single handed chap called Ray waiting for us.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The delights of Leamington Spa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"This<\/a>
This one is for Peter who likes his poppies! We passed many a poppy field on our travels, this is the best shot so far.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s fair to say that I wasn’t impressed as it’s more effort for no reward. \u00a0How wrong could I be.<\/p>\n

\"Ray<\/a>
Ray and narrowboat Bones (called in honour of his dog)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We only opened one gate. \u00a0Toby would go in first and I’d be on the other side with my trusty rope on a Karabina dangling down, Toby would then pass through the centre rope, and I pulled the boat across, Bones came in second. \u00a0I then opened one paddle and one gate and we carried on like this for the morning.<\/p>\n

We did intend to stop for lunch but as the locks were in our favour, so we decided to carry on through the flight at Stockton Locks. \u00a0Ray was very trusting of Toby and suggested we tie the two boats together and Toby steer both boats into the lock.<\/p>\n

\"Moving<\/a>
Moving the boats together tied together at the bow and stern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Toby<\/a>
Toby taking both boats in to the lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All 21 locks done and I hadn’t even broken a sweat! \u00a0We pushed our luck a bit too far in the late afternoon in\u00a0the hope of getting to Braunston; it started raining so we decided to moor up a bit early and watch some Wimbledon tennis!<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A steam powered narrowboat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A wonderful sight and sound, just like a steam train<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A sticky night on the boat and it’s fair to say I was not looking forward to today and another 21 locks. We had a good hour before we hit the first lock and found \u00a0‘Bones’, a single handed chap called Ray waiting for us. It’s fair to say that I wasn’t impressed as it’s … Continue reading Two by two<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-llangollen2015"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-7r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}