{"id":509,"date":"2014-07-20T08:11:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T07:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2014-08-25T18:32:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:32:57","slug":"driveway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/driveway\/","title":{"rendered":"Driveway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driveway has been a bit of a mess since the dwarf wall was removed and the driveway sloped down to meet the pavement.\u00a0\u00a0 This is how it was originally:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCF7608-perspective-foixed-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-513\" alt=\"DSCF7608-perspective-foixed-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCF7608-perspective-foixed-2-450x382.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCF7608-perspective-foixed-2-450x382.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCF7608-perspective-foixed-2-1000x849.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCF7608-perspective-foixed-2-624x530.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the setts and edgings done I can put some gravel on top to make it look pretty.\u00a0 A couple of tonnes of MOT stone were spread out during the freakishly hot weather in July.\u00a0 It will be topped in gravel once the MOT has been flattened and whacked down.<\/p>\n<p>The driveway will be temporary as I would like to build the garage at a lower ground level, but that will be a good couple of years away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCF8046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-510\" alt=\"DSCF8046\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCF8046-450x337.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCF8046-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCF8046-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCF8046-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3 tonnes of gravel later and the front of the house looks much nicer.\u00a0 I ought to find somewhere to hide the concrete mixing board to give the illusion of tidy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gravel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-533\" alt=\"gravel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gravel-450x342.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gravel-450x342.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gravel-624x474.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gravel.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The driveway has been a bit of a mess since the dwarf wall was removed and the driveway sloped down to meet the pavement.\u00a0\u00a0 This is how it was originally: With the setts and edgings done I can put some gravel on top to make it look pretty.\u00a0 A couple of tonnes of MOT stone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}