{"id":177,"date":"2023-06-29T05:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T04:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbtallulah.co.uk\/?p=177"},"modified":"2023-06-29T05:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T04:44:41","slug":"the-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"The First Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a morning of rushing around, visiting the doctor, picking up the prescription and another last minute shop, I was ready. Apart from the arrival of a couple of packages from Amazon. These eventually arrived and after a few farewells to friends, I eagerly hurried to the boat and cast off.<\/p>\n

There was very little boat traffic on the way to Braunston but there were quite a few moored up, so it took a little longer than usual as I always observe the rule to slow down when passing moored boats. This is normally tick-over speed, which on my boat, is around 1 – 2 mph.<\/p>\n

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I turned left at Braunston and headed up the North Oxford Canal and quickly caught up to an extremely slow going Clifton Cruisers hire boat. I wasn’t in any hurry, so I hung back and went with the flow.<\/p>\n

The sky was steadily worsening and then the inevitable rain started, thankfully not torrential. I found a suitable mooring, just after it stopped raining; typical. Here I stopped for the night.\"\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a morning of rushing around, visiting the doctor, picking up the prescription and another last minute shop, I was ready. Apart from the arrival of a couple of packages from Amazon. These eventually arrived and after a few farewells to friends, I eagerly hurried to the boat and cast off. There was very little boat traffic on the way to Braunston but there were quite a few moored up, so it took a little longer than usual as I always observe the rule to slow down when passing moored boats. This is normally tick-over speed, which on my boat, is around 1 – 2 mph. I turned left at Braunston and headed up the North Oxford Canal and quickly caught up to an extremely slow going Clifton Cruisers hire boat. I wasn’t in any hurry, so I hung back and went with the flow. The sky was steadily worsening and then the inevitable rain started, thankfully not torrential. I found a suitable mooring, just after it stopped raining; typical. Here I stopped for the night..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,20,24,26],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-the-north","tag-clifton-cruisers","tag-hire-boat","tag-north-oxford","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}