{"id":945,"date":"2016-09-19T17:06:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=945"},"modified":"2016-09-27T18:55:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:55:06","slug":"role-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Role Reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"

No mist this morning, although it was a bit chilly. We’re so used to swing bridges and locks throughout the day, it was some relief to have the first few hours just cruising.<\/p>\n

Foulridge tunnel is one way and we hit the traffic lights on red.\u00a0 We made good use of the time cleaning one side of the boat.<\/p>\n

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Toby the scrubber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We then hit Barrowford locks which is a flight of seven, I offered to steer (in the hope it would get Toby off my case about steering – epic fail as he now wants me to do it all the time!).\u00a0 Walkie talkie batteries died which wasn’t great timing and the locks were leaky and short so I was nervous and the air turned blue a couple of times.\u00a0 Toby did OK with the locking, although room for improvement on the multitasking…he needs a bit more meat on his bum to push the gates too!<\/p>\n

\"Toby<\/a>
Toby opening a gate paddle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We continued through Burnley, and we’re moored in a little village called Hapton. Quite an early finish for us at 4pm, bag of maltesers already eaten and pie for tea, yummy<\/p>\n

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Picked up a plank off the bow, Toby to the rescue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No mist this morning, although it was a bit chilly. We’re so used to swing bridges and locks throughout the day, it was some relief to have the first few hours just cruising. Foulridge tunnel is one way and we hit the traffic lights on red.\u00a0 We made good use of the time cleaning one … Continue reading Role Reversal<\/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_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-945","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-ff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","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=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}