{"id":408,"date":"2010-05-07T18:40:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2010-05-07T18:40:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:40:47","slug":"cheddleton-to-stockton-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Cheddleton to Stockton Brook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Friday 7th May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Stockton Brook, another place\u00a0I can get mobile \u00a0internet\u00a0 &#8211; well I never! We must have stopped at all the wrong places for it on the way down to Froghall. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Today&#8217;s journey was 5 miles and 8 locks. We didn&#8217;t see another moving boat until this afternoon and then there was only the one! It really is so quiet here. We are going to stay here for the weekend and venture into Stoke on Trent on Monday when it will be a big shopping day. We need the usual (beer of course!)\u00a0etc but I also need to address my camera\u00a0problem at Comet and George needs various\u00a0replenishments from Pets at Home. Fortunately we can moor right at the Festival Park retail park, where\u00a0we will easily be able to get sorted. And there is a handy pub there too, perfect!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Talking of pubs (which I so often am) George wouldn&#8217;t entertain a walk to the pub today. Ken and I did, of course, fall in there (The Sportsman) on\u00a0our way to the paper shop! Very nicely timed as the landlord was then putting out the ham cobs, yum! We\u00a0also got some entertainment as a couple of chaps were playing table skittles. I did\u00a0bring a certain lazy git\u00a0a bit of ham back as he had missed out, bless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">REAL TIME INCIDENT ALERT!!! &#8211; \u00a0All Hell has just broken loose here! Ken is fishing and just caught a lovely pike of about 4 lbs. Unfortunately, on his\u00a0way out of the cratch to the bank, from the water side, across the front of the\u00a0 boat, to unhook said pike he accidentally kicked his bite indicator, which was attatched to a brick for stability, off the side of the boat and into the canal!\u00a0 (Laugh me?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">He is now trying to recover the bite indicator with his landing net. He has brought up a rather nice rock so far!\u00a0 Oh wait, he has just found it and it is still attatched to the brick! Hurrah! Obviously this activity has scared all the fish away now!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">This boating lark is such fun!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 7th May. Stockton Brook, another place\u00a0I can get mobile \u00a0internet\u00a0 &#8211; well I never! We must have stopped at all the wrong places for it on the way down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=408'>Read the Post<span class='screen-reader-text'>Cheddleton to Stockton Brook<\/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-408","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\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}