{"id":16617,"date":"2020-08-18T20:35:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T18:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16617"},"modified":"2020-08-18T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T19:16:05","slug":"a-couple-of-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-couple-of-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy these past days doing this and that but without having an awful lot to show for my efforts. However, I have managed to fit in a bit of video editing and here are two of the results. First, a video of the first leg of my flight in July in my ex-pat Xair across the English Channel from Clipgate Farm near Canterbury in south-east England to Calais-Dunkerque in northern France.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UJcHe0yj1AM?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And now a short video that I shot this morning using my Fimi X8 SE quadcopter in the area where I live in the Dordogne in south-west France.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AkRuZAAXVY0?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been mainly dealing with admin and paperwork stuff in the last couple of days but now that&#8217;s done I can turn my attention to my aircraft and tomorrow I plan to pull my Savannah out of the barn for another good clean. It hasn&#8217;t been flown since the last time so it&#8217;s about time that I got it back into the air, and that&#8217;s the next thing on the agenda. There&#8217;s really no reason now the weather is cooling down a bit that I shouldn&#8217;t be getting at least half-an-hour to an hour&#8217;s flight each week in each aircraft, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll be looking to do if I can over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, here&#8217;s something I nearly forgot to mention. It&#8217;s that time again &#8211; but <em>much<\/em> earlier than usual. Due to the period of incredibly hot weather that we had during the second half of July and early August, the plum trees in my garden have already become laden with ripe fruit. And lots of it. While a crowd of us were enjoying apero at my new table last week a sudden squall blew up and although there wasn&#8217;t a lot of rain that evening, as a result quite a lot of fruit fell to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>So as it was all good and otherwise undamaged, rather than waste it I gathered a couple of huge bowls as I&#8217;ve done in previous years and my French neighbour Chantal gathered a bucketful to share with her friends. But it&#8217;s no good just leaving the fruit in bowls, you have to do something with it so I bought some special jam sugar as I usually do, 4 kgs of it, which made 10 kgs of jam mix.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the whole of yesterday jam-making from 8.30am to 4.30pm and here are the results of my labour stacked on the top shelf of my fridge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/plumjam2020.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/plumjam2020_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s much more than I&#8217;ll ever be able to consume all by myself before next year&#8217;s crop arrives so I&#8217;m bound to be giving some away to friends. I also told Chantal, who came back for some more plums, although there&#8217;s not much good fruit left on the ground just for now, that she can come back and take whatever she wants when more ripen as I won&#8217;t be making any more jam. If I did, I really would have it coming out of my ears. And if I eat many more I&#8217;ll start looking like a plum soon myself \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and yes, I had some this morning for breakfast on two pieces of toasted bread. I thought yesterday after looking at it after it had been in the fridge for a short time that it looked as though it was going to be a bit runny. But it wasn&#8217;t. It was almost perfect &#8211; it stood up when placed on the toast but was runny enough to drip off if you tipped the toast up. Just the way I like it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy these past days doing this and that but without having an awful lot to show for my efforts. However, I have managed to fit in a bit of video editing and here are two of the results. 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