ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
On Friday and Saturday we opened our garden under the National Gardens Scheme. I wanted to do a snapshot of how it looked for our visitors so I attempted to walk most of the paths in the garden in both directions, filming as I went, but to do so in one continuous take. It's a…
I was trying to cobble together a really short video of our garden to put on Facebook to publicise our last openings for 2024. I filmed lots of clips then tried to squeeze them into two minutes. Didn't work, the first attempt was three and a half. Then I had another go, which went a…
We had our first two NGS open days for 2024 a week ago and the next two are at the end of this week. It's a while since I did a video of it and I'm a little out of practice but it will give you a good idea of how it's looking. I didn't…
Even when it hasn't been raining in the last couple of weeks, the light levels have been low and my attempts to produce a film snapshot have left me with hours of profoundly dull footage. The conceit that I hold to is that I have an all year round garden with at least a few…
I’ve been out in the garden with my camera to take a snapshot of how it looks in November. It's still quite passable, provided you don't look too closely. I've done a bit of cutting down and tidying up, need to do more, but the great thing with a camera is you can choose what…
I've been out in the garden with my camera to film a snapshot of how it looks in October. Pretty good, as it turns out, though the weather has now taken a turn for the worse, autumn is tightening its grip and the overall trajectory is a downward one. Filmed 10th & 11th October 2023.…
An October edition of the television programme that I mentioned a month ago has now gone up on the Cornwall Stress Free Television Vimeo channel, should you have seventeen minutes and 52 seconds to spare. Bobbie the cat is clearly the star.
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