{"id":387,"date":"2010-04-28T18:29:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2010-04-28T18:29:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:29:39","slug":"stone-to-barlaston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Stone to Barlaston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Wednesday 28th April<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Yesterday (Tuesday) we<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u00a0spent another pleasant day in Stone, mostly shopping, oh and going to the pub of course. We\u00a0discovered a Morrison&#8217;s and as we are now going to make a detour up the Caldon Canal before we go through Stoke we needed to stock up. This entailed 2 trips, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Two rucksacks are no substitute for a car!\u00a0On the way back from the first trip we met Barry and Barbara, who had arrived that morning and\u00a0were moored about 3 boats in front of us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Between shopping trips we took George to The Star. We had intended to\u00a0try The Swan Inn, for a change,\u00a0which is on the other side of the road\u00a0to The Star but as George\u00a0had other ideas\u00a0and tried to drag me across the road full of traffic to The Star we decided we&#8217;d better go back\u00a0there before there was an accident! As it happened it was a good thing because Barry and Barbara turned up for a drink and we had a nice chat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">This morning we emptied the elsan, filled up with water, diesel and got some coal (yes my fire is still in!)\u00a0\u00a0then travelled the 4 miles and 8 locks to Barlaston. A fairly uneventful trip with everyone going the opposite way to us (do they know something we don&#8217;t?) which made the locks easy. We could moor up right outside the pub at Barlaston, The Plume of Feathers. It is a pretty uninspiring pub though, even George got back in the boat after about 10 minutes! The canalside tables are chained to the ground &#8211;\u00a0speaks volumes!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">We have moored just outside the village not far from\u00a0the Wedgwood factory, which we may visit tomorrow. This is a lovely spot but very busy with boaters, walkers, cyclists, joggers etc. Just now a cyclist went past,\u00a0closely followed\u00a0by &#8216;Cyril&#8217; the Jack Russell, barking all the way, who in turn was hotly persued by his owners\u00a0shouting at\u00a0him to come back, to no avail, hilarious! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 28th April Yesterday (Tuesday) we\u00a0spent another pleasant day in Stone, mostly shopping, oh and going to the pub of course. We\u00a0discovered a Morrison&#8217;s and as we are now going&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=387'>Read the Post<span class='screen-reader-text'>Stone to Barlaston<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","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\/387","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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}