It looks perfectly harmless, doesn't it. This is the thing that our front gates bolt into. However, over the years, the drive has eroded around it and it now stands five inches proud of ground level. That's too high for the new car, which is a low-slung model with slimline tyres and an exhaust pipe that hangs just above the ground. So everyone has to get out of the car before going up the final short slope into the drive.Well, we're all fed up with that. So I have been to visit the Carrières de La Montagne Noire and ordered some gravel to be delivered on Monday. Only a small lorry-load, but it will still weigh 11 tons, so I am bracing myself for an awful lot of shovelling and raking before we have the perfect drive (and a happy car).
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I remember that 'innocent' piece of steel. When we drove our hire car into your drive it scraped horribly against a strut or something, pulling it loose. Luckily they don't look under the vehicle when you take it back to the airport!
11 tons of gravel. About 100 wheelbarrow loads?? Anyway, a lot of raking!!
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