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Hi Guys n Girls I am back on line. I am still in the UK and still trying to think what sort of video I am going to make of interest to you.
As most of you know Sue an I spend half the year in Spain enjoying a good life with all the other OAPs in the sun, and this is one of our normal days out a couple of years back. We have lots of groups down there and some are made up of older profesional musicians who have retired but still love to play.
https://youtu.be/As7XwQut6pg
Sorry not answering any posts but we have been off the Landline and internet for over a week !!! Openreach/BT or whatever they are named this week have been saying that a contractor has stolen our phone line !!!! So much for the modern mulitiplex digital system !!! It would appear that outside contractors are allowed to virtually do what they like with the phone lines ! We had some old friends down a couple of days ago from different parts of the country and they said that they had exactly the same problem. At this moment the only way I can use the internet is through my mobile system up in the attic as we live in a "dead zone".
Well things didn't quite go to plan ! for one thing it was raining for most of the day and also any filming was in the big house, so there was nothing to see.
I had a quick walk round with my camera to show our local Facebook page how big the set up is.
Nothing special at all and I hate filming in the rain !!!
https://youtu.be/vptyg9QPEsM
Albert Ross wrote:[quote
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Sounds very exciting with a film crew about to start work at Penshurst. We don't subscribe to Amazon TV so we will not be watching the final outcome unfortunately, but good luck at being an extra,
I will possibly walk up there tomorrow and take my best camcorder with the longest lens that I can use handheld. I used to get on the set of a lot of films in the same place and one year there was a certain actress playing Maid Marian in a spoof Robin Hood film and one of the "daily papers" photographers was trying to get a picture of her in a certain disguise. The photographer was chucked off the set and he asked me to get a close up of her, so I got some terrific shots and developed them in the darkroom. I then sold them to that "daily paper" that were printed in the center pages !!
What the newspaper photographer didn't know is that my wife and her had got quite friendly as she was staying in the village hotel and we had taken her out to Tunbridge Wells a few nights before, so she willingly posed for me !
I also don't subscribe to Amazon but I can normally get most of these things on my Firestick that we use in Spain and the UK.
Albert Ross wrote:For our final visit we went to a National Trust property in south Gloucestershire called Dyrham Park. Very picturesque with its magnificent trees and beautiful gardens. https://youtu.be/87WOaEYexuk
Another well filmed video Albert, looks like you were lucky with the weather. Also a good filming day for lighting. I had to smile at the guy using a tiny strimmer for the job he was doing !
Meanwhile in our village in the UK there is this going on !!
Having lived in Penshurst since 1951 I have seen many film sets based around Penshurst Place. However at this moment you would have to drive by it to see what is happening to believe it ! as there are literally hundreds of cars/ assorted film equipment/temporary enclosures that have filled the castle grounds up !! I understand that it is for a large future Amazon TV series that will take 6/7 weeks to shoot and probably won't be on the box for a few months.
An update, I can't be 100% but it looks like Road House 3 ? Unsurprisingly, plot details for the upcoming and currently untitled Road House sequel remain a mystery, and it’s also unclear who, besides Jake Gyllenhaal, will return from the original cast. No official release date has been announced either, but Amazon Studios has confirmed that work on the project is ongoing, so it might be a while before any new details are announced.
Perhaps I can get a part as an extra
Alfred wrote:GStree wrote:Castles are very interesting places to visit wherever you are in the world and although we have some in Spain there is nothing like an English one. We have two very close to us in the UK, one in my village of Penshurst and the other in Hever that are great to visit with amazing histories.
I’ve heard of Hever Castle but never visited it. There’s also Leeds Castle, which sounds as though it should be in West Yorkshire!
I hadn’t heard of Penshurst Place until now. Looking it up online tells me that it’s is a ‘fortified manor house’; I haven’t tried to track down an explanation of the difference between a fortified manor house and a castle.
In fact there was one on "Channel More 4" (freeview 18) tonight at 9pm of Penshurst Place that was filmed this year with lots of drone footage included, its called "Great Estates From Above" Towards the end it showed a few shots of the village including the old forge that has been turned into the village shop and post office. From the mid 60s until the 90s my brother and I ran it as a car repair shop. If you can get it on catchup take a look.
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/gre … /77687-003
Alfred, I have lived in the village from 1951 and I have seen lots of changes over the years (thankfully mostly OK) my wife still loves it so although we have our "Place in the sun" we will still hang on to it while we are able. The TV program is well worth watching and this is a picture of Penshurst Place.

Albert Ross wrote:Here is the second video of our trip. Richard took us into Wales to visit Raglan Castle, or as the Welsh call it Rhaglan Castle.
https://youtu.be/BH1IMuOlGOk
Well Albert you certainly got it all in !! It looked like an ideal day lighting wise to get some very good shots with very little shadows well done. I have never heard of it before but had a look at the history, and it's unfortunate ending.
Castles are very interesting places to visit wherever you are in the world and although we have some in Spain there is nothing like an English one. We have two very close to us in the UK, one in my village of Penshurst and the other in Hever that are great to visit with amazing histories.
In fact there was one on "Channel More 4" (freeview 18) tonight at 9pm of Penshurst Place that was filmed this year with lots of drone footage included, its called "Great Estates From Above" Towards the end it showed a few shots of the village including the old forge that has been turned into the village shop and post office. From the mid 60s until the 90s my brother and I ran it as a car repair shop. If you can get it on catchup take a look.
Albert Ross wrote:Took a trip into Gloucestershire last week to be with our friend Richard who took us around his patch. Our first visit was to Stratford Park in Stroud. We watched a lady feeding the swans lettuce, spinach and grains amongst other things, she was quite fascinating, together with the magnificent trees with their autumn colours it made for a lovely afternoon out.
https://youtu.be/phFAbzS2Et8
Yes I liked that well done, the colours at his time of the year are one of the first things that we notice when we come back to the UK. The swans and ducks always know just when the feeding is about to appear ! I had exactly the same thing in Spain the day before we flew back as we went to a restaurant right next to a huge expance of water, and of cause just about everybody throws the odd bit of food out for the water birds. I would have thought that there must have been about 200 ducks and coots at least. Trees are amazing to film when you get the light about right and I admit that I probably take too much footage of them (at least it is digital these days) and wastage doesn't come into it anymore ! I had too smile at the fallen leaves as our garden is absolutely covered in them and I have been clearing them up most of today.
Alfred wrote:GStree wrote:We have had Bank Voles in our garden for years, and I thought I would show you one of this years crop ! This must be one of the shortest videos I have made !
https://youtu.be/XWdxYga-naw
Short but sweet! Lovely stuff.
Thanks Alfred ! I actually filmed this yesterday as we are back in Blighty and having a clear up in the garden. The nest site is actually covered over with a sheet of roofing felt where the slow worms and grass snakes normally live. This is the second breed this year from the same nest. I never know what I will find when I pull the sheet away !
We have had Bank Voles in our garden for years, and I thought I would show you one of this years crop ! This must be one of the shortest videos I have made !
https://youtu.be/XWdxYga-naw
Albert Ross wrote:Thanks Gordon, it took us an extra half an hour to get there, and a bit longer to get back, but that is the joy of motoring isn't it. As you can tell from the video, we had a lovely bright day and were quite tired when we got back -oh to be 30 again!
Did you appreciate how privileged you were when you met him as a young child?
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I do now Albert !! but I met him in 1954 when I was 7 years old and I had no idea what an important man he had been. We are back in the UK next week, probably until the end of December as I have a lot of sorting out in my old business premises as somebody actually wants it !! Incidently it's raining down here in Spain at the moment and we are told it's going to get worse !! It was 30c in the shade this morning and Sue was swimming in the sea on our local beach while I was editing a film for my channel. Sorry guys yes it is another band at one of the local venues, so it probably wouldn't be of interest to you.
I'll see what I can find to film of interest when I return to the UK.
Albert Ross wrote:Had a nice day out on the last day of September. We thought that we would take ourselves back into Kent to visit the house of Sir Winston Churchill at Chartwell.
Please do enjoy the show...
A good video Albert, I have been there several times over the years as it's about 15 minutes from where we live in the UK. Saying that I haven't been there for the last 5-6 years as we do love our retreat in the sun where we are at the moment. The gardeners do an amazing job to keep it like it is throughout the different seasons, but I did notice that they have the same problem that we have in our garden with a glut of apples !.
I have actually met the man once in the 50s as he used to come down to Penshurst to visit the Lord of the Manor in Penshurst place. Our teacher in the infant school walked us round to see him.
All I seem to do is laze about in the sun and film things like this.
https://youtu.be/EMvvFpF0HiM.
ericlnz wrote:Thanks. Showoff!

pberk wrote:I did this one about 15 years ago.
Bananas Foster low fat. I wish I had the energy I had 15 years ago.
You are never too old ! https://youtu.be/EpLGFLbQ5VY
Hello is anyone out there !!
I haven't made any videos for a while so I have nothing new to put on the page unfortunately. I am still in the UK at the moment but we are flying off on Sunday for a quick month in Spain and hopefully find something of interest to film. Regards Gordon

William wrote:I habitually use BT webmail.
Today it is going wrong, sometimes.
So I tried to ring 0800 800 150 to get help, the usual help number.
But they have changed it, no longer able to talk to anybody, they send a link to click on. But mine is a basic phone, on pay as you go anyway.
Why?
Since BT has split up to various names it is a major job to actually get anything done especially if you can't speak to anyone !
We have just had a major incident with our phone and internet, we are the last house on the end of old copper wires in our village and the last pole is in our garden. We went completely off the landline phone and internet last week including my mobile that uses the internet when I am at home as we live in a bad reception area.
After many calls for help Openreach found that another contractor had disconnected our line completely on a pole about a quarter of a mile down the road ! Yes they had used our line to put a new connection to someone else ! After a lot of climbing and connecting we did get reconnected. However I then had no upload speed (an 8 minute video took over 2 hrs to upload !!! Anyway this morning they have sorted it and I am back on the maximum that I can expect on the old antiquated lines. When we are in Spain I had a fibre line put into our place and only pay for usage when we are there, it's half the price and twice the speed what we are getting in the UK.
I made this video on our local beach in Mojacar Spain. I make a lot of videos for the bands down here and I asked rock Singer Kev Moore if he would surprise his fans with something different. He recorded the song in his sound studio and lipsynced it while I filmed him He didn't disapoint !
https://youtu.be/-Td_NwqenFg
ericlnz wrote:Gordon
Has anything changed on your pc system lately?
Which format are you trying to export?
Hi ericinz thanks for coming back. I wasn't trying to export anything out of the ordinary, however it has suddenly sorted itself out ! I would think that it was a problem with the laptop and not X6.
I happen to have 2 laptops and it worked ok on the other one, I then reset the original laptop and "bingo", all this modern stuff although amazing can be a bit of a pain at times !!
In fact I was looking at an old S8 film from 1972 on the projector yesterday and a splice came apart ! I had to dig out my old splicing kit only to find that I hadn't got any cement and had to use sellotape.
I have been thinking about buying one of these digitizing machines that work by copying the film frame by frame, I have read up reports of "good" and "bad" and it's a bit of a minefield. I have tried various ways in the past using the projector and camcorder at different speeds and settings etc that although "sort" of worked, but I was never satisfied with the final results.
The thing is that we have got used to brilliant quality from modern cameras/camcorders and phones that can instantly be shown on large HD TV screens unfortunately.
I have a problem with X6 ! if I export anything it dosen't record the sound !! The audio all works fine on the timelines before I export. This has suddenly happened and a reset has made no change.
I have a problem with X6 ! if I export anything it dosen't record the sound !! The audio all works fine on the timelines before I export. This has suddenly happened and a reset has made no change.
ericlnz wrote:Thanks Gordon. Among the vehicles I noticed a blue Morris 1000 Traveler with woodwork just like I had many years ago in UK. Back in the days engines faced north/south and had a hole in front for a starting handle, so useful in freezing conditions and when batteries were low.
Eric, the thing is that a lot (or most)of the cars back then all had starting handles. Funny that you should mention it but a mate of mine has a blue Morris 1000 van (that is in this video) and he actually had to start it with the crank handle at the end of the meeting. Of course it's only a 998cc low compression engine that is relatively easy to swing over unlike todays big powerfull lumps that seem to be the norm ! Also of course a lot (or most) of todays cars are FWD with the engine and gearbox (east/west) under the bonnet, so no provision for a crank handle. We were blessed with brilliant sun all day that (as we all know) is not the best for filming, so auto exposure was knocked on the head for most of the video.
Meanwhile I am trying to have a gigantic sort out with "loads" of "stuff" that I have accumulated over the last 65 plus years. Most of it is audio/movie film/video related that has cost a fortune over those years and now is "almost worthless" and just taking up useable space. I don't suppose I am alone am I ?
Hi guys, I am still in the UK for a couple of weeks and I had to go and give a prize to someone at a Classic Car Show in our village.
So I simply walked about with my camcorder in hand and strung this together. It may not be your "cup of tea" but at this moment I am trying to sell off 60 odd years of car parts and tools from my job as a motor mechanic and clear several trees from our garden. I Also have to clear the workshop as someone else want's to move in ! We will then be back in Spain for a while. Cheers.
https://youtu.be/t-RwYdTnTRs
ericlnz wrote:Thanks Gordon. Graveyards always fascinate me. My parents were cremated at Barham Crematorium in Kent. I've never visited there and now in my very senior years am unlikely to ever do so.
Thanks ericinz, that was a well made film and I can relate to it ! I don't know if much younger people would agree with me though ? as I get older I realise that I am getting nearer the end as the years seem to fly by quicker day by day. Saying that my father lived another 20 years than what I am now so I can only hope.
I must get motivated to make a decent video in the near future! and as I am not in Spain for over a month or so I can't continue with my videos of singers recording different songs that they are not known for and filming them lipsyncing in outdoor settings. I have already got 2 audio recordings ready to go for when I return.
KarenPL wrote:A lovely tranquil piece of video. I know many shun graveyards because of what they are, I suppose, but I always rather enjoy a slow walk around, reading the gravestones and getting an idea of the social history they reveal. I'll be doing a lot more of that once we get the house move over, and I have time to devote to the family tree research again. That will include going around the cemeteries/graveyards where those before me are laid to rest.
Thank you Karen, the graveyard is full up with the surnames of people that I grew up with and their parents/grandparents, and as you probably realise the headstone that is shown is my mother and my father (who lived over 100). Not many people are actually buried these days but are cremated in the nearest towns and just have a simple tile placard. The graveyard is just about full up now so I don't know who decides when enough is enough !
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