Hello,
Helloooo!
Good morning
and welcome to Scotland,
you know, the uppy bit
and then right a little bit.
We're so far north, we're in the north pole.
I thought you were going to say Hebrides.
[Laughs]
It's a very exciting day today
Yes.
for two reasons.
The first reason is, Shaun's got his new wheelbarrow,
[Laughs]
which we'll show you in a little while.
We're saving the best for later.
I've got to put it together yet.
That says a lot when we're saving the wheelbarrow for later doesn't it?
I've got to assemble it.
The second exciting thing, apart from it being lovely and sunny and warm.
Is
that we've heard, we've been told by forecasters that tonight there's going to be
an a Aurora Borealis.
I said it that time.
Yes.
An Aurora Borealis.
Apparently there's been a big sun flare.
There has
and we're going to try and see it, because we've never seen the Northern Lights before have we?
No.
But the thing is, I want to get some photographs to show you,
but it means using my digital,
my DSLR camera.
And he hasn't got a clue.
I thought you were going to say, and I haven't got one.
[Laughs]
That would have been tough wouldn't it?
Yeah. I have got a DSLR that's been tucked away for a while and
I have trouble understanding things sometimes and
to catch the Northern Lights on a DSLR,
I'm gonna have to use the manual settings.
Point and shoot won't work, because it won't autofocus
on dark
I've got this.
[Laughing]
Good luck with that. [Laughing]
[Laughing]
So this morning i've been trying to learn,
well I've been, basically I've been going on Google
and researching how to photograph the Northern Lights,
like that.
That's like playing a tiny piano isn't it,
Richard Clayderman.
which I can't do, either.
So I've been researching how to photograph the Northern Lights
and one of the things I need to do in preparation,
is we have to go to where we're going to be photographing the Northern Lights.
We're going to Loch Brora.
Come on.
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You might recognise this place,
this is where we filmed a few of the vlogs over the last few weeks
and it is a lovely spot.
The reason I've chosen this to come, and hopefully,
fingers crossed, get some shots of the aurora tonight,
is because,
well a couple of things,
one, it's very dark.
There's no lights, there's no houses or street lights or anything.
But that is north,
so obviously we want to look north.
Also it's quite a low, apart from that big hill,
it is quite low down.
So,
I mean,
if the lights are just in the, kind of horizon,
then we'll get a better view.
Hopefully it'll fill the whole sky, that'd be ace wouldn't it?
It'd be brilliant.
It looks like he's having a wee, but he's not.
I'm not, I promise.
[Laughs]
So why have i come here during the day,
because we're not going to see the Northern Lights during the day.
Well,
I'm not very good with a Digital SLR camera,
to be honest I normally just use my iPhone or a video camera.
But I'm gonna have to use it and I'm gonna have to use manual settings,
which I know, I've got to be honest, I know very little about.
But I've been doing some research on
how to really get the best Northern Lights photographs and I've never done it before
and one of the tips is about not being able to manually focus when it's dark,
because there's nothing to focus on.
So what I've done is, I've come here during the day so that I can
focus on
what they call, infinity, which is the furthest point away
and apparently that makes for better shots
So I'm going to get the camera out,
focus on the furthest points where I might want to photograph
and just make little marks on the ring, on the manual ring,
so I know where to set it tonight when we come back and hopefully
there's something to photograph.
You can have a wee now.
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So keep your fingers crossed, because if i can learn to work the camera
[Laughs]
and the skies are clear
and the the flares come from the sun
or Uranus or wherever it is they're coming from.
Then we might see the Northern Lights
and Shaun will be seeing stars for a whole different reason tonight.
Yes, last time I saw stars like that was when I banged my head on the mangle.
Ken Dodd,
classic isn't it.
Today we're going to start preparing the land
because the first thing that's going to be arriving, probably by next week's vlog or the vlog after,
are the chickens.
Now,
or the hen house first.
remember at the beginning when we said, exciting news we've got a wheelbarrow.
I have.
It's your moment.
It's my moment.
Go and get it.
I'm gonna go put it together.
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Get a good look, because it's never ever ever gonna be that clean ever again.
Can we take it for a test drive?
Yeah.
[Music playing]
I can't hold it any longer.
[Music playing]
[Crashing sounds] [Music playing]
[Music playing]
I've hurt my boo boo!
[Laughs[ Are you alright?
Shaun's got a boo-boo.
No, we're only kidding.
Only kidding.
[Laughs]
Right, we've got a wheelbarrow,
now we ought to use it.
Start clearing some stuff.
We've got a path from the top of the drive
right down to the bottom down here
that hasn't been used for what looks like donkeys years.
So we're going to clear this,
because we're going to need to have access down at the bottom.
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Already done the first two runs on these steps
and it's revealed some lovely stone, it's gonna be beautiful when it's finished.
[Music playing]
We're back, I can't see the camera, I can't see you.
[Laughs]
As you can see in the background,
the sun has set the moon's kind of behind shaun who's filming me.
We've got the DLSR setup,
I've got all the manual focus points set up
you remember from earlier when I was focusing on the mountains in the background,
so I've got those set up.
But I'm also going to try if I can and focus on some stars really far away
and see if we can get some clear images with the stars as well.
I'm looking forward to this, we use an app on our mobile phone
there's two or three that you can get, but the one that we've used
has said that in the next hour it's due to start
and we should start seeing some colour towards the north of us here.
I don't know if you can tell, I can just kind of see a very faint kind of green haze.
Can you see it Shaun?
No, I'm looking at you through this.
[laughs]
So I'm going to start taking some practice shots with the camera and see what happens.
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You alright there nitty head?
Got nits.
No I haven't.
It's been an interesting couple of days hasn't it, Maude?
Yeah.
I haven't called you Maude for ages.
No you haven't, have you, Gert.
Shaun got his wheelbarrow.
I have.
We saw the Northern Lights
We did.
and I tell you what, I'm going to keep practicing on things like focusing
and what I'd love to do next time if we get if we can get the conditions right,
is I want to take the drone up and get like a time lapse of it going in a curve,
I bet that would be amazing.
That's going to be difficult.
I am working on it
and Shaun's working on his chickens.
Now that we've cleared a bit of land, we can order the chickens
and we've seen one we like.
It's hair, well no not it's hair,
they don't have hair do they?
Feathers.
Or lips.
Nope. . . chicken lips! [Laughs]
Do you remember that from the boat?
And teeth, they don't have teeth do they?
They don't have teeth.
Is it hens that don't have teeth, chickens do don't they?
It's just hens that don't.
A hen and a chicken are the same thing.
So we've seen this chicken online,
it's actually called Gertrude,
but it's hair at the back looks like her off, oh who am I thinking of?
Errrr, Bet Something.
Midler?
No not Midler, errr!
Arggghh!
[Colin] Coronation Street. [Shaun] Turpin?
No, she made Hot Pots.
Lynch, Bet Lynch
Bet Lynch.
It's hair looks like Bet Lynch at the back, it's back end.
Yes.
yes obviously Bet Lynch's hair didn't have a big like poo hole in the middle of it.
[Laughs] Poo hole?
You know what I mean don't you.
Kind of up like that.
[Laughing] You can't say that.
So, chickens on the way
and then the bees, I've ordered two,
Two hives.
two sets of bees and they're coming shortly as well, I can't wait to show you that one.
But we hope you've enjoyed your little visit with us today,
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I feel like I have to bob down, because the camera is quite low and I'm quite high.
There you go.
Errr!
What?
Bizarre.
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[Laughing]
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Ohhh I'm loving this weather.
It's gorgeous.
You know, winter's going to come back one last time,
it always does doesn't it, around Easter time
About two foot of snow.
and bites you in the bum.
It does.
Speaking of which.
Ohhh!
Ta-ra.
Ta-raaaaaaa!
🎶 Ahhh la la la la la la! 🎶
Sam Smith did that one.
What?
La la la la la!
I do it much better.
It's gee'd me up a bit hasn't it?
It's like he's sat on a horse.
What are they called? On a pole?
You know what I mean, like that.
[Laughs]
No, you know what I mean, it's got like a horse's head on it
and you ride it don't you, like that?
You know what I mean don't you?
You used to have them when you were a kid.
A Cock-Horse isn't it.
A Cock-Horse, I want a Cock-Horse.
Because you're not really going to get cheese from Billy,
well not that sort of cheese from Billy Goats anyway are you?
[Laughs]
So we're getting Nanny Goats.
I won't tell you why he's laughing.
[Blows raspberry]
[Laughing]
Are you having a stroke what. [Laughing]
[Laughing]
Urinus.
You're not allowed to say Uranus anymore are you?
What?
I read on some. . . What?
[Laughing]
I read in one of his scientific magazines,
I don't know which planet it was.
Ohhhhhh god!
I don't know which planet it was,
but apparently you could fit six Pluto's in my, in Uranus.
[Laughing]
Is that right? [Laughing]
[Laughing]
I did read that didn't I? [Laughing]
Yeah.
Is it Pluto or Mercury?
It's one of them, I don't know, but yeah.
You could fit six Plutos in Uranus.
Ohhhh!
[Laughs]
No you can't do that.
[Laughing]
It's got a few positive things about photographing the Northern Lights.
If they turn up.
Arrgghhhh!
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