{"id":1898,"date":"2015-05-08T20:15:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T20:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2015-05-08T20:15:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T20:15:38","slug":"gravel-and-new-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=1898","title":{"rendered":"Gravel and New Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new volunteers, Kim and Andra, arrived last night, and straight away this morning I handed them a shovel each and made them move ten tons of gravel down the hill.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1899\" alt=\"pile of gravel being delivered\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3101.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3101.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3101-477x640.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They took it very well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1900\" alt=\"pile of gravel being moved\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3102.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We all worked at it and reduced the pile by about two thirds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1901\" alt=\"gravel on weedproof fabric\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3103.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And made the new picnic area look a lot better.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1902\" alt=\"getting along towards the edge\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3104.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It will look even better when we install the two old bathtubs and fill them with beautiful plants.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1903\" alt=\"Grace drives the proper digger\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3109.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3109.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3109-477x640.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230; I got to have a go on Antony&#8217;s digger. But I wasn&#8217;t very efficient, so I handed it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new volunteers, Kim and Andra, arrived last night, and straight away this morning I handed them a shovel each and made them move ten tons of gravel down the hill. They took it very well. We all worked at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=1898\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}