Monday 31 December 2012

Saturday 29 December 2012

Having fun on You Tube

I decided to add another vid to my channel. I have had this channel for only a couple of weeks and I am trying out my new found hobby, film making.
I expect you will find some tips here too as I find my feet in the YouTube world. 

Thursday 20 December 2012

Time for youtube?

Oh well I seem to have seen many others having a go so I thought I would too.

Comments welcome.

 

Wednesday 12 December 2012

A38 Dec 1st 2012

Off we go again. Another night at wild camping. Just an excuse to test out my new home made Led strip light conversion.

I had 3 strip lights all using about 20 watts each this was not good for battery life so I decided to try something else.
I didn't want to change the lights as I had fitted them in and the carpet on the walls was cut around them so I decided to modify the lights instead.
The back light I removed all the tubes completely and fitted 2 led strips in there place, this is now perfect and gives as much light as the original florescents did. I reused the existing switch so they looked unchanged, now they use less that half the power they did. Result..

The front lights I decided to leeve unmolested I kept the fluorescents as they did give a warmer feel to the van if I wanted them and just added 1 led strip in the middle with an extra switch to turn on and off.

Also,
   The heating on the van works a treat its 17 in and 1deg outside. Nice and cosy!  The view was nice too Sun morning

Sunday 9 December 2012

Christchurch Dec 8 2012

Yum, tea and toast for breakfast.
Thought I would try the forest site in the forest of Dean, I read a few reviews but a few people didn't seem very happy with it so far I think it's been great.
When I arrived at 7 pm it was already dark but I found the receiption with no problems and was greeted by the staff on shift. The reception is very posh and its got a shop selling all you could need inc wine, lots of smiles from me  there!

I got my pitch with electric but as it was grass it was rather stodgy. Put up my awning then in for some tea.

Had the electric heater durring the night so was nice and cosy no point in being cold and misserable.
It went down to 1 outside with 12 inside, nice.

Off for a walk to coleford today its less than 2 miles walk and  it has lots of charity shops so lots of bargains to be had and butcher's and grocers for your fruit and veg.

We were contemplating buying a door mat for the camper so we went in this shop, the gentleman serving was a lovely chap Chating away and telling us all about the local town. We remarked on his boots and said how nice they looked, yes he replied and continued to tell us about them, he said they were really comfy and he had never had a pair like them, " they only cost me 19.99 too!"  He said,That's a bargain we replied we must get a pair "Did you get them local?" we asked ,  "oh yes" he replied. " continuing to tend to his shop, " were from?" we asked "oh..! In here... " he replied...

Monday 3 December 2012

Some new camper graphics

I had come to notice the van still looked more like a van than a camper I I thought I would add some camper style graphics.