{"id":651,"date":"2016-06-04T21:37:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T20:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=651"},"modified":"2016-06-04T22:04:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T21:04:02","slug":"pottering-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"Pottering Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after leaving our mooring just past\u00a0Wood End Lock we entered the land of the potters. \u00a0Armitage Shanks and Spode perhaps bring to mind slightly different aspects of this trade. After a chilly start the day turned pleasantly warm and inspite of this being a somewhat industrial area there were many stretches with pleasant views across the countryside. \u00a0During the chilly bit Peter was allowed to take to the tiller\u00a0again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-655\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-Pat-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-655\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-Pat-1.jpg\" alt=\"Concentration\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-Pat-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-Pat-1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concentration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-654\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-654\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-1.jpg\" alt=\"An Original James Brindley Bridge\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Original James Brindley Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shopping\u00a0in Rugeley was convenient and\u00a0easy but\u00a0the Farm Shop at Haywood Junction was a lot more interesting. \u00a0The award winning Plum Porter and Guniess and Porter cheese went down very well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-652\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-2.jpg\" alt=\"Haywood Junction. On The Way To The Farm Shop.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haywood Junction. On The Way To The Farm Shop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We moored up close to Shugborough Hall and enjoyed an excellent supper of herby loin of pork accompanied by a bottle of Nettie Viognier. \u00a0This was followed by cherry pie with custard. \u00a0You can see how we are enjoying our evenings. \u00a0Please note the beautiful new tablecloth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-653\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-653\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-3.jpg\" alt=\"An Evening On Oliver\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-7-3-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Evening On Oliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>En route we acquired a handsome antique boat hook which had been wedged in the bed of the canal awaiting King Arthur (aka Pat) to pull it out with superhuman strength.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after leaving our mooring just past\u00a0Wood End Lock we entered the land of the potters. \u00a0Armitage Shanks and Spode perhaps bring to mind slightly different aspects of this trade. After a chilly start the day turned pleasantly warm and inspite of this being a somewhat industrial area there were many stretches with pleasant views &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pottering Along<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leeds-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-av","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}