Perhaps I imagined it !! ? https://youtu.be/L6Uu8OEwZGw Sorry about the noise, but we are on Gatwick approach !

A big part of my life from 1968 until 2012 I was involved in motor racing and was quite successful. I won approximately 300 races along with 2 British championships and held the lap records at most circuits that I raced at, including the UK/Ireland and Spa in Belgium.
Obviously I couldn't film the races that I was in but I did sometimes use a GoPro inside the car in later years.
This is a film that I made back in 2015 after I had hung up my crash helmet and a lot of the guys that I used to race with are in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzNv9dkRb2E

At this moment I am in the UK with problems of flooding of our property. The crazy thing is that in Spain we have the opposite with a serious water shortage. We have restrictions and this is in what is effectively spring and coming into the holiday season !
We have been flushing our toilet with buckets of water from the swimming pool for quite a while and we are not allowed to refill it. It's just as well that we have a much larger pool 2 minutes walk down the road, it's called the Mediterranean Ocean !

Couldn't agree more, editing is a doddle ! I too started when I was still at school with 8mm "proper" film. It was time consuming and could be expensive but was worth it when you first dimmed the lights and showed it to the family. I was lucky in that I knew someone that worked at Kodak who used to give me some odd lengths of 16mm B&W film that I used to split down the middle and re perf it when I had my old clockwork cine camera. I used to develop it as well.
The thing was that you used to have to take a lot more trouble to get it right back then, whereas now you can instantly see what's happening through the lens and adjust it on the fly. I had a load of tin tacks in a row inside of a wardrobe door to hang the edited 8mm strips on ready to stick together and would often make 400 footers !  Thank Christ all that is in the past !
I then went on to various S8 cine cameras including sound, and then to video cameras with separate VHS recorders/8mm tape camcorders and finally getting to where we are now. The picture was early 80s I think ?

Eric, l have always been interested in any of your well made  films of places in NZ as I do have relations over there on my fathers side.
I have never been, but my dad did go over when he was 95! so I still have a few years left (God willing).

I liked that Paul, very professional compared to my humble "flicks"
Lets face it all this modern technology/cameras/audio gear is amazing and enables anyone that is clever enough to master it (and act) to make really good films for peanuts ! well done.

I am always amazed at the zoom and stability on my Sony AX53 camcorder and I did a quick test today while I was in Garrucha harbor. This is handheld (believe it or not) and it was windy as well !
https://youtu.be/6RmngRmIU7Y

Still in Spain enjoying the weather, I even captured myself at the beginning of this video. This is people of a certain age keeping fit and some are 80+ years old, so I am a mere stripling at 77 !
https://youtu.be/scqTXIe38kg

You could say that !! on the radio just now we are about to have water restrictions put in place as we have had the least rainfall for 10 years and have more buildings, as I type this Sue has just said that we have no water ! However this often happens as the infrastructure is so antiquated it leaks everywhere along the main roads. We keep a bucket of water beside the toilet at all times and often have to refill it from the swimming pool.

I know what you mean, but I have seen my wife jump into a swimming pool after breaking the ice !!! as for the two in the duck costumes they won a prize for best dressed and had flown in from Canada, but did use a plane !!
The majority of our friends that come down to stay with us do have a good think of doing the same as us because of the cost of living/lifestyle and weather, also at our time of life how long have we got ? I must admit that as we were here 40 years before any of these "place in the sun" programs on the TV it has not made it any better for us ! however we still have the same Spanish neighbors.

No matter it was only 5 mins Eric it was still well filmed (as usual) and entertaining.
We were in Spain until the 14th Dec and flew back to the UK for a family Christmas and then back down on the 31st ready for the new years day charity sea swim that I filmed. Sue took part as normal and used my GoPro from the swimmers side that I edited in. Unfortunately the battery is on it's last legs so I turned the screen off so it would last the 15mins or so of the duration so she couldn't see what she was filming, but did know that it has quite a wide angle.
The whole thing was a great success and raised 7K for a local animal sanctuary. Where the swim takes place at this time and hour of the year the sun is always directly over the sea behind the swimmers so filming from the beach is never going to be the best. The start of the video is basically for the benefit of the participants and the action doesn't start until 7min, and will probably be boring for you boys !
We are here until mid Feb and enjoying mid 20c temperatures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h58LRFM39tU
PS just noticed that the link isn't starting at the beginning !