{"id":198,"date":"2023-02-19T19:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/?p=198"},"modified":"2025-03-28T20:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:18:07","slug":"duck-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/2023\/02\/duck-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck Island&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HMS Duck Island has been launched onto the pond.  Home built by Richard Stott the island has stayed afloat and is tethered in place by a 5m chain. The top is covered with a thin layer of soil and a flexible ramp up now awaits a moorhen or duck or whatever fancies making a new home out in the middle of the pond. Well done Richard for getting this launched!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a13a3a20a98c&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a13a3a20a98c\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_132525-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_132525-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_132525-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_132525-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_132525-676x901.jpg 676w, https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_132525.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">View of the floating duck island from the rear of the pond Feb23<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMS Duck Island has been launched onto the pond. Home built by Richard Stott the island has stayed afloat and is tethered in place by a 5m chain. The top is covered with a thin layer of soil and a flexible ramp up now awaits a moorhen or duck or whatever fancies making a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fcc","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalpa.org.uk\/ettonmere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}