Despite the rain we had on Tuesday the annual "Hand Hop Picking" took place at Larkins Farm Chiddingstone Kent.
Unfortunately this year I couldn't spend much time there as I had another engagement, also it was curtailed because of rain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBtPT6tdmlY&t

Hi eric, I did put a bit more information on my YouTube site regarding the machine picking,  I have also put a video on previously showing the 70 year old machine that they use. The hand picking is just a bit of fun for old times sake on the first day.
I made this time-lapse video a while back showing the old machine up at the Brewery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcJLxzMFimc

A recent visit to a local historic homestead https://vimeo.com/750308488

At 150 years old it's not historic for many of you guys, but it is for us. 

The servants quarters remind me of my great, great, great aunt.  In the UK 1851 census for Gloucestershire she was shown as 18 (actually 15) and a Lady's Maid at a house with 14 inmates in Cheltenham.  Not much to look forward to.  In July 1854, aged 18, she travelled to London and boarded the ship "Emigrant" along with 316 Government Emigrants, probably mainly young girls sailing to Adelaide, South Australia.  What an adventure.

Albert Ross The one that I made the other day was unfortunately miserable and wet, so it wasn't the best to get enthusiastic about. As I had already taken a fair bit of "footage" I decided to make it a little bit different with the poem and music to tell the story.
Also, I had to leave before Bob the owner served tea and biscuits in the hop garden that is part of the day, so I missed filming that and a "cuppa" and a ginger nut for myself!
Incidentally the last frame on the video that you mentioned I purposely left the wasp on the cake !

I like that video Eric, going back in time to show how people lived without all the mod cons that we have today. Mind you some of those things may well be coming back into use the way things are going at the moment.
Until I was 4 years old, we lived in a farmworker's cottage beside a hop garden about a quarter of a mile from the nearest road. We had no running water or electricity but of course we didn't know any difference, when we moved into a brand-new council house in 1951 it was amazing being able to actually flick a switch and a light would come on!!!  and turn a tap and water would appear all as if by magic. My elder brother and sister were highly delighted in flushing the toilet that used to terrorize me with the noise.  The house we now live in is 500 years old and oak beamed complete with a duck's nest fireplace, I fitted a wood burning stove into the huge space that keeps us warm and we can boil a kettle or even cook on it in the winter months if we are in the UK

I trust she makes a full recovery, and you manage to avoid the bug.

You may well be right, my wife had covid at Christmas 2020 but it wasn't diagnosed back then, she caught it again about 3 weeks back but have no idea where she picked it up !  I haven't caught it yet (fortunately)

Cheers Albert, I honestly don't know what to say as there are so many "experts" on this on social media and the "Daily Rubbish".      All I know is that my wife has certainly had it once that we actually know about (if the test kits work) and probably had it two years back when it wasn't worldwide news!  Back then we were still sleeping together, and I don't remember having any problems, but she was very ill for about a week. We were in Spain at the time and when we came back to the UK she went to the doctors who asked her if she had been to China! 
Last month we went to the Goodwood Revival and met loads of friends from my past in motor racing and some have recorded that they have tested positive as well since the event. Although she is a bit out of salt's we are wandering about along the local beaches with no trouble.

Nice.  I was surprised.  Lesson.  Don't judge a book by its cover.

I think you mentioned before that the singer also sang opera. He has a good voice.

Is that your wife, with the hair, walking across behind him? Now fully recovered from covid?

Is there anyone out there !!!!
I wonder if I am the only person on "post your videos here"?
I have been down in Spain for 6 weeks filming various bands and probably I didn't get around to making anything that people would be interested in on this forum?
As I have been down in Mojacar on and off since 1972 I find it difficult to make a new video of anything that you may be interested in (I could do a walk around the actual Mojacar village on the hill if anyone was interested)?     
Anyway, this is the type of thing that I spend most of my time filming that is not everyone's cup of tea. These "guys n gal "were doing an Addams Family special for Halloween and the lead guitarist was almost unrecognizable as he has very long curly hair that he had platted and greased tight to his head and normally a beard, also the singer has blond hair.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRrlt40HAwk

Since it is quiet around here, I thought I’d post a little film I made a few years back. It was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal”. It grapples with the ultimate subject, one we all face in the end.  It runs about 6 min.

The Unknowing ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lnMMCyXVrk