Here's a song for all of us getting fed up by people lecturing us on what we should or should not be eating. https://youtu.be/e1sI3pXo9pQ?list=RDe1sI3pXo9pQ

About a million years ago I bought a program for the Amiga called Amos. It was a BASIC program which was really very good. The only thing wrong with it was that it did not self boot when you put the floppy into the drive as advertised on the box. I wrote to the company concerned pointing this out, hoping that they could fix it. All I got back was a letter saying that they were aware of the fault and apologised for it, and that was that - most unsatisfactory.

Not really a gadget person, I operate with just a camcorder, no extra lens', but I do have a spare battery about my person when going out into the field, so to speak. The spare battery came in useful last Monday when we visited Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire.

Hope you enjoy the five minute video https://youtu.be/UkPc-ON4BSA

What a wonderful video Eric, it may have been very frustrating for you, but for me, it was simply brilliant.
It's funny but we all love to see butterflies, but as to where they come from, the caterpillar we detest them, munching away on our home grown produce, that also is just as frustrating. I don't think I have seen such beautifully coloured caterpillars, the ones we see in the back garden all seem to be green with no noticeable markings at all.

Eric, we have been getting pictures on our news bulletins over here and Auckland looks horrendous, with pictures of people up to their waist in water. I did think of you as I was watching the pictures. Keep safe over there.

You can split up a long track automatically, rather than doing it manually.

If memory serves, drag down the track to the timeline, highlight the track and then open up the 'trim' window on the context toolbar. Select 'Scene Detection' and wait. You will get a progress bar on the trim window while the program splits up the individual scenes and puts the thumbnails onto the media pane.

Hope this helps.

We can still use cheques here in the UK Eric and the only time I write one is if the plumber needs to call. One cheque book would last quite a few years these days. I seem to remember that the government stated a few years back that they wanted to do away with them, but for whatever reason did not do so.

Do you not have credit cards or debit cards in New Zealand, that's how we normally pay for things?

I do take your point though, society is turning more and more towards technology and people like myself are slowly being left behind. Even the NHS are using smartphone apps. I don't understand it.

Just spent a happy hour or so going through all of the videos I missed over the last few days! Thanks Eric, Paul and Gordon. It's funny, very few submissions over the last few weeks, and suddenly a whole lot come up in the space of a few days. Great stuff!!

I had a bit of trouble with the last one "Flipper, Splash & Friends". For some reason it just would not play. It started off OK once I altered the quality down to 240, then after about 20 seconds it just gave up. I'll have another go tomorrow, the computer is probably getting a bit tired, at one stage it actually told me that it had "encountered a problem" and had to be restarted.

Such is the joy of computers in the 21st century, can't live with them, can't live without them.

Just a quick update. I have now cleared the cache but still cannot watch Samoa. The strange thing is that I can watch some of Eric's older videos like the one made in 2015 featuring the insects in his back garden, etc., but as for Samoa...

I'll see if I can watch it with my Alexa device.