{"id":257,"date":"2021-05-12T18:42:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/?p=257"},"modified":"2021-05-12T19:16:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:16:21","slug":"heavy-block-and-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lovely couple in Kinglassie had some blocks going free. &#8220;I&#8217;m here for the exercise&#8221; I said &#8220;you&#8217;re at the right place&#8221; and I was. These blocks are called grunters, they are twice the thickness of a normal breeze block and feel about four times as heavy. They are perfect for a raised bed. The Kia, not really designed to take huge loads, managed 10 blocks before I thought it was a bit low on the suspension. It took three loads. On the final load, driving through a nearby village, I noticed a wall had been knocked down, and I was told I can have as many of the bricks as I can carry.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good news, the mushroom compost man is alive and may send me a date of when he can deliver, I was getting nervous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3862-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"266\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3862-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/2021\/05\/12\/heavy-block-and-help\/img_3862\/\" class=\"wp-image-266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3862-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3862-scaled-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3862-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3862-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3862-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3862-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3862-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Before<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3868-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"268\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3868-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/2021\/05\/12\/heavy-block-and-help\/img_3868-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3868-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3868-1-scaled-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3868-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3868-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3868-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3868-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3868-1-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">During<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3872-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"267\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3872-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/2021\/05\/12\/heavy-block-and-help\/img_3872\/\" class=\"wp-image-267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3872-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3872-scaled-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3872-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3872-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3872-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3872-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3872-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">After<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely couple in Kinglassie had some blocks going free. &#8220;I&#8217;m here for the exercise&#8221; I said &#8220;you&#8217;re at the right place&#8221; and I was. These blocks are called grunters, they are twice the thickness of a normal breeze block and feel about four&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesanctuarygarden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}