Go East Young Man

In training again for Pedal for Scotland next week, Louis and I rode to Archerfield just outside North Berwick, another good marathon-length ride.


We even have a wee video:

Relive 'Afternoon Ride'

Dancing In The Street

Well now that I've found out how to embed Facebook videos, there's no escape from this sort of thing; the choir I'm in doing a wee performance at Sainsbury's in Cameron Toll (the glamour!) in aid of SiMBA. With cool yellow hats.

Watery Activities Croatia

A wee compilation of all the usable footage I got from the "No-Pro" in Croatia this year. Good times!

Winners!

Nothing much happened in June. Nothing I photographed, anyway. The exception, of course, was Louis' school choir who beat all comers at the Glee National Finals in Perth. And quite right too, they were superb. Even when the power failed during their performance:

Christmas Choir

A christmas performance by the Davidsons Mains Primary School Choir in honour of the turning on of the Christmas Lights in D Mains. Louis is hard to spot, but he's on the left in the second row, just to the right of the pillar.

Poolside Malarkey

More video from Val Thorens, this time in the apres-ski pool.

Val Thorens

A wee bit of footage from our ski trip earlier this year.

Timber!

Louis jumps out of a tree up Corstorphine Hill.

As Easy As...

... falling out of a tree.

The Fall Guy

In glorious slo-mo.

Bouncy Hair

Hot on the heels of my first outing with slo-mo, here's Holly on the trampoline.

Just Hangin' Out

While the boys ran about, Holly and Eloise amused themselves by dangling off the posts. It was around this time I discovered my phone camera has a slo-mo mode. Nothing much happens until about a minute in.

Last Day Black Run

A wee video - shot by Louis with my NoPro on his helmet - of him, Holly, Marianne and Ciara following me and Pete down Trolles - a black run heading back into the village of Tignes - on the last day of our ski trip.

Masterchef

Handsome

Zoo Too

A few more pictures of Holly's day as a zoo keeper, these ones taken by Holly herself, up close and personal with the animals as she mucked them out and fed them. That's Holly's hand in the lemur picture, holding the pink cup...

There's also a short video of her "target training" a giant tortoise. It's something to do with mitigating stereotypic behaviours. Ask her about it...

Action Cam

A short video featuring more footage from the BirthdayCam:

Point Of View

For my birthday, I got a rather splendid lightweight and waterproof video camera, which can be strapped to various parts of one's anatomy / bicycle / skis. In an homage to a wee video Louis and I made three years ago, we documented a tour of Davidsons Mains Park to give it a test run:

Ice Bucket Tomfoolery

For anyone who didn't see it on Facebook, Scott nominated me to do the Ice Bucket Challenge. It was a sunny day, we had time to kill, and the kids were keen. So we did. Cold water and sunshine, just another day of Scottish summer.



Then I "nominated" Louis:



And Holly:

Tyrolean Traverse

After the - albeit short-lived - success with the slackline, I wanted to try rigging a zip line for the kiddies. Keith dug out our old climbing rope, and with a little bit of reading I managed to rig a Tyrolean Traverse and an improvised harness. It all worked a treat - especially between big trees in the park - and the kids especially loved hanging upside down for some reason. Next step, a pulley to make a zip line!