Hi Paul,  The Cruise industry appears to be doing well judging by the numbers calling here recently.

As for fungi which are alien to our harbours we don't want them, neither does Australia.  Introduced species, albeit fungus, can cause havoc with native species.  It's bad enough that the warming seas are bringing down from tropical areas species of marine life which normally don't live here.

Thanks Gordon and Sue.  Another warm, humid day here.  No snow unlike in the US at present.

Thanks Paul.  Did we see you three times - in a suit then orange then blue shirt?  If so you haven't changed much!

Problem is the environment around is changing with technology.  For example cheques have disappeared here.  They're no longer accepted by banks so how are people who don't use internet or phone banking able to pay?  It's especially a problem if you aren't very mobile, or have deteriorating eyesight, dementia etc.

Gordon - Sorry to hear about your friend and sister in law but sadly we are now at an age where funerals become more frequent.

Whilst we are getting nostalgic about film here's another old 8mm one "Flipper, Splash & Friends"   https://vimeo.com/781037937

I thought I had it on Vimeo but no and it seems I didn't even have a mp4 version.  So I dug out my original avi and ran it through Handbrake. It's a Dec 1970 visit to Marineland, LA on my way from UK to NZ.  Travelling with an Aunt we stopped off at LA for one or maybe two nights.  It's all I've visited in the US.  I've subsequently passed through twice but only the airport.

Norton Simon Museum 2009 - Thanks Paul.  Very interesting.

Weird.  I never touch the rating when uploading so have no idea why Samoa is different.  It's been there for seven years.  Anyway I've given it the "All audiences" rating so Albert try it now.

Paul - yes many of the riders will have passed on.  It was 53 years ago!

Gordon - I did my transfers around 16 years ago using the crude method of copying with a digital video camera off a small screen onto which the film was projected. The quality varied from good to barely acceptable depending on the quality of the original.  40 Plus was my first and probably my best.  Shot on a Sankyo 8CM Standard Eight camera purchased secondhand from Wallace Heaton in 1967.

Yes, when I put my audio visuals and my old 8mm film movies into digital I still had my original reel to reel tapes and my Akai tape deck.  Apart from one, my tapes, some going back to the 60s in UK, were in good condition.  Most were Scotch Dynarange. I transferred the tape contents to my pc.  All my analogue material and equipment has now long gone.

Here's something different again.  An 8mm film movie made in 1969 https://vimeo.com/33854096

Here's something different.  As most of you head into winter and here it's a miserable wet "summer" afternoon.  A 1981 visit to the tropics.

It's an audio visual (I had 25 years AWOL from movie making).  Originally a dual projector slide show with audio on a cassette tape.  One track for a speaker and the other with instructions fed to an earpiece that fitted over my ear.  This came in useful when I recreated on a Movie Plus timeline.  The audio is the original so it's me 40 plus years ago.

My first visit to Samoa in 1981.  I subsequently spent two years there in 1982 - 1984.  A lot has changed since both there and worldwide.  https://vimeo.com/147280337

Thanks Paul, I've has to do similar twice when I've recorded myself outside and wind was a problem.  I try to match up the waveforms to replace my "windy speech".  But the first time I couldn't as the wind made the original waveform unrecognisable so it wasn't a great success.

Last year at the beginning of this video https://vimeo.com/538265156 I had to do the same.  Not much problem with wind but I found in order to match the waveforms I had to speed up my post recording considerably in places to match and keep lip sync.  Any variation would have been noticeable as I'm front on to the camera.  Fortunately with Vegas Movie Studio you by default maintain pitch when changing the speed.

No walk around my village this afternoon as it's raining.  I'll have to exercise up and down the carparking areas instead.