{"id":8316,"date":"2021-03-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8316"},"modified":"2021-03-09T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T16:00:00","slug":"covid-drinking-dens-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/09\/covid-drinking-dens-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Drinking Dens – 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

09\/03\/2021<\/p>\n

A tale of two bridges, and a lot of water. It\u2019s pissing down on a Tuesday, and no-one wants to play. I\u2019m going for a walk with some cans of Captain Morgan and Coke. The daughters are doing Brownies by Zoom, and it\u2019s always loud, dull, and righteous.<\/p>\n

I drink a couple of cans on the long stomp down the promenade. A photo here, a photo there. I\u2019m wet; it\u2019s windy and cold, and I\u2019m going to need a wee before I get home.<\/p>\n

The first bridge I\u2019m walking over is big and goes uphill, so you barely notice it\u2019s there, so I\u2019m not counting it. I pass The Boxer\u2019s house, and access the canal, where I soon reach the first bridge. I have painted from on top of here a few times, though the last picture remains unfinished due to the weather. It has stopped raining now, but everything is so drenched, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to make a difference.<\/p>\n

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I drink another couple of cans of rum and coke, make an image, and move down the green lane towards the barn we drank at a few weeks ago. The gate area is a quagmire, soaking my boots as I walk past towards the West Coast Mainline. The empty trains speed past, mostly empty, as I walk parallel to them, reaching the second bridge.<\/p>\n

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The amount of water under this bridge makes me think I\u2019m back at the canal, only there\u2019s no tow path here. I wade into the deep centre, and crack open another can. Well isn\u2019t this fun? There\u2019s an inch-long tear along the feather edge of my right boot, and its mud that I can feel as well as water. Another can, another picture, and its home time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-drinking-dens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}