Drive Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/drive/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Wed, 09 Mar 2016 15:09:43 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Drive Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/drive/ 32 32 2696646 New Drive Timelapse – Day 8 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/03/new-drive-timeplapse-day-8/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/03/new-drive-timeplapse-day-8/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2016 15:06:53 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=21365 Work continues on our new drive. We missed the action yesterday thanks to a technological faults – for some reason my GoPro keeps stopping partway through a timelapse recording session, I don’t now why, but it always seems to stop after taking 197 photos. It went through a phase of doing this every time for...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/03/new-drive-timeplapse-day-8/feed/ 1 21365 A New Drive – Day 6 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/a-new-drive-day-6/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/a-new-drive-day-6/#respond Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:04:50 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=21288 It’s still busy at work for us so we haven’t been able to be here whilst the workmen are in creating our new drive. It’s all going well though and after a few minor alterations and final preparations things are now ready for the tarmac. The timelapse video starts today with the setting of the...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/a-new-drive-day-6/feed/ 0 21288 A New Drive – Day 5 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/a-new-drive-day-5/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/a-new-drive-day-5/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2016 06:23:46 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=21279 Day 5 of our drive transformation and the heavy machinery was out in force. Once again we couldn’t be there as we were at work, but we left salted caramel chocolate brownies out for the workmen and headed off to work. It turned out to be a lovely sunny day for the workmen, if a little...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/a-new-drive-day-5/feed/ 3 21279 A New Drive – Day 3 & 4 – Kerbstones https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/a-new-drive-day-3/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/a-new-drive-day-3/#respond Tue, 23 Feb 2016 05:54:48 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=21248 Day 3 of our new drive, and the workmen think that the camera is keeping tabs on them. It’s not, it was just a good excuse for some time lapse photography and a way for use to see the transformation taking place as we couldn’t be there whilst the work was taking place. Nothing actually happened...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/a-new-drive-day-3/feed/ 0 21248 A New Drive – Day Two https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/a-new-drive-day-two/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/a-new-drive-day-two/#respond Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:08:11 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=21235 Day two of the workmen working on our new drive and yet again we were all out of the house early for work and didn’t return until they had left. No tea and cakes for the workmen from us, but they seem to be getting on well with the job. After the removal of lots...

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