{"id":438,"date":"2010-05-17T19:42:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T19:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2010-05-17T19:42:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T19:42:31","slug":"congleton-to-lyme-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Congleton to Lyme Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Monday 17th May <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">What a day, I&#8217;m knackered! To start with George got me up at some ungodly hour for a wee! Actually it was 6-30 am, which used to be the middle of the day to me but fortunately, is no longer! As it was such a nice day and we had Bosley Locks to do,\u00a012 locks in 1 mile raising us 118ft, we decided to get an early start. I drove and negotiated the many bridges on the way fairly well. When we arrived at Bosley Locks there were a few boats waiting to go up. We had a cup of tea and waited for them to get a start. I did the driving for the first lock and did ok.\u00a0 Then the\u00a0boat in front of us\u00a0got held up by a\u00a0single hander in front of them and a hire boat in front of him who kept running aground. The boat behind us caught up and for a while no one went anywhere. As we were all going the same way every lock had to be set before use. I decided that as I was more proficient at locks and Ken was more proficient at driving we should swap so as not to hold\u00a0things up any more than they were already. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Hence I have done 11 of the 12 locks and walked miles today! These locks\u00a0differ from others in that they each have a pair of mitred\u00a0top gates instead of the usual single top gate.\u00a0As these can not be walked\u00a0across like a single gate\u00a0t<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">his necessitated a lot of extra walking from one end of the lock to the other, to the bridge,\u00a0to get from one side to the other, for paddle operation and gate opening.\u00a0Very tiresome.\u00a0\u00a0It took us from 10-15am to 1-30pm to finish. It would have been longer but for the fact that the man in front of us very kindly\u00a0left one paddle up after he had finished so by the time we got to the next lock it was empty and we could go straight in. I did the same for the people behind us.\u00a0\u00a0In the middle of the flight we met 3 boats coming\u00a0down which also helped. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">After the excitement of the locks\u00a0came the equal excitement of the water\u00a0filling\u00a0and elsan emptying! Obviously there was a queue for both and Ken had to do some nifty manouvreing to wait for a space and then get near the tap.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Travelling for another couple of miles brought us to an electrically operated\u00a0swing bridge\u00a0and just over the road &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; a pub, hurrah! The beer was rather strange but not unpleasant, although Ken gave me half of his and went on to the Guinness! A further mile&#8217;s travel brought us to Lyme Green (my favourite colour &#8211; not!) where we moored with some difficulty due to the shallow edge, opposite a farm and right by the raliway line. We like being by the raliway line and do not find the trains as intrusive as the\u00a0cars are\u00a0if we moor by a road. However, we have just discovered here, that the tv signal goes haywire\u00a0every time a train goes by! Good job there&#8217;s bugger all on!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 17th May What a day, I&#8217;m knackered! To start with George got me up at some ungodly hour for a wee! Actually it was 6-30 am, which used to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=438'>Read the Post<span class='screen-reader-text'>Congleton to Lyme Green<\/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-438","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\/438","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=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}