{"id":199,"date":"2009-10-13T15:47:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T15:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2009-10-13T15:47:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T15:47:59","slug":"grand-union-canal-yelvertoft-to-husbands-bosworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Grand Union Canal &#8211; Yelvertoft to Husband&#8217;s Bosworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">We have had a good travelling day today. With no locks to worry about we have come about 12 miles to just outside Husband&#8217;s Bosworth. We passed the Welford Arm of the canal and North Kilworth and went through the Husband&#8217;s Bosworth tunnel, a baby at only 1166yds long!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">We had the same mooring trouble after the tunnel as we usually do, ie there weren&#8217;t any suitable ones for the village. A Canaltime boat\u00a0was moored there, rather strangely, with a rope extending across the towpath to a tree! Not sure what all that was about and not good practice. I did manage to get on to the bank but we couldn&#8217;t get the boat in far enough to moor properly as the edge was silted up. Then a boat came past in the opposite direction and we\u00a0got grounded just off the bank with me still off the boat! I managed to get on in the end, this involved a rather energetic jump. Then I had to get\u00a0on the roof to get the pole to push us off the bank, I&#8217;m like a gazelle! Unfortunately\u00a0I managed to bring a considerable quantity of dog poo with me from the bank (dirty bastard dog owners!)\u00a0and then had to spend a happy (not) half an hour clearing up and washing my trainers!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">A little further on, however,\u00a0we foung a lovely mooring and decided to call it a day. The sun was shining and we sat on the bank for a couple of hours. Then we did some twigging.\u00a0A rather productive session it was too, with some quite large bits of wood, and all for free! Actually, yesterday I incurred a twigging injury. I managed to stab myself in the back of the hand with a big hawthorn thorn, ouch! It still hurts now. Today I wore gloves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Ken is now fishing (again) and all I can say is,\u00a0it&#8217;s a good job I&#8217;ve got a cottage pie in the oven! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Tomorrow we will definitely get to Foxton and down the flight. Maybe there will even be a mooring outside the pub! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Cheers B.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a good travelling day today. With no locks to worry about we have come about 12 miles to just outside Husband&#8217;s Bosworth. We passed the Welford Arm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=199'>Read the Post<span class='screen-reader-text'>Grand Union Canal &#8211; Yelvertoft to Husband&#8217;s Bosworth<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}