@@MrPedalpaddle you're welcome ☺️

Thank you. Wouldn't have been very soothing for the listener 58 years ago when I first took up recorder playing at primary school! 😩😩😩😖😖😖

@@MrPedalpaddle complicated! I record the video on my phone using DolbyOn (or just phone video as I don't use the audio it creates) and at the same time higher quality audio using a mic plugged into my laptop. Then I upload / transfer everything to PowerDirector on my desktop for editing. I unlink the video audio from the video, delete and replace with the higher quality audio. I did the same with the other part. Then the fun of trying to sync it all!!!

By the way, I'm putting together a video showing how I make the recorder videos - watch this space!

Thank you. Needs to be a little slower - and I need a metronome!

@@BevMattocks I use a traditional wind-up and also a battery run cheap-o metronome that I can use with an ear-piece so the constant clicking doesn't upset anyone 😊

I use the online metronome

Thank you. You're very kind 😊

Thank you. 😊

@@joshneill7695 thank you 😊

Aw thank you. You've made my day. 😊😊😊😊😊 Thank you for watching my videos. 😊

Thank you 🙏

Thank you - good advice. ☺️

I no longer have it

I do a figure of 8 ride that goes through both dales - Thixendale and Millington. Love them both 😊

Thanks - it has made it faster.

He he yes 😁

Ha ha I did think of the latter - record audio onto my phone, then mix the audio / video tracks together but I'm aiming for ease of use / quick production, but I will experiment until I get the best combo 😁

I've accepted the request on Strava ☺️ My feed shows all my rides plus any indoor sessions prescribed by my bike coach. Thanks for following me here. 😊 Off on another ride today!

Thank you 🙏

Thanks Gerard. At the moment, I actually find the videos are distracting, in a good way. And I've found some interesting info about the places on my next video. ☺️

Thanks Gerard. I feel exhausted. 🫤

Thank you 😊

It's a long video! 😁

You are welcome. It'd still be rattling if it wasn't for your tip! 😁

Apparently it's a common problem for the chest mount. If you Google the problem it says one of the things to do is put some tape on the mount near a clip. Hope this is helpful

Thanks I'll try it

​@@gerarddriscoll5599I think your fix may have worked! Just about to edit today's ride to see. 😊

Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you. I was going to do another today but broke my phone - spent all morning upgrading to a new phone😩😩😩😩😩😩

Unfortunately I no longer have it...

The dreaded high F#!! Good idea but not if you plan to play with an accompaniment.

@@BevMattocks That's why sounds good on Tenor or voice flute. View on KZbin Bach flute sonata bwv1034 played on voiceflute.

Thank you ☺️. UK network would have been much more interesting if Beeching hadn't wielded his axe...

@@BevMattocks You are so right.

Thank you 😊

Thank you! 😊

Yes, a tuna and cucumber roll with crisps and an endless supply of biscuits, cake and flapjacks. Same for later on in the journey as the catering stopped at Bristol (Birmingham got standard class).

@@BevMattocks 👍🏽 thanks, that’s helpful. I’m going to do the journey in June. I’m going to travel in first class like you did but now I know about the food situation, I’ll take my own food incase there isn’t much choice as I have a relatively limited diet.

@@autumn5852 well done, you! Get a window seat on the left if you can. Food was: bacon sarnie, gluten & dairy free Christmas cake slice, flapjacks, biscuits, crisps, tuna & cucumber sarnies, cheese sarnie, pastrami sarnies + tea, coffee, soft drinks. Get a stash in before Bristol because the first class catering stopped there... Standard class catering ended at Birmingham!!

Thanks, Don. 😊

Sorry, please explain? Coolant? 20 mins? 😀

@@BevMattocks The engine coolant needs to be warmed to 40c for efficiency. So the engine is lit about 20 minutes before it is required.

@@imogenharrison3432 I see - thanks! 😊

Also both ends are still semaphore signals & signal boxes which must be so tricky for drivers - but I guess the drivers who cover those sections are well used to the old system? My guess at driver / crew changes would be: Edinburgh, York, Birmingham, Bristol and Plymouth? Am I right? Or Newcastle rather than Plymouth???

@@BevMattocks Semaphore signals are no different to any other. Route knowledge means you know where they are. Just a different form of signalling.

@@imogenharrison3432 I subscribe to train driver Don Coffey's great cab driver's views video and he pointed out how they can be tricky in fog or in the dark compared to modern signals but, yes, I guess drivers like you know the route back to front. I think it's amazing! I am in awe. 😊

Well I really enjoyed your video of the longest train journey, I didn't understand the negative comment. The information you gave was interesting. You're a braver woman than me spending all that time on a voyager! I did Newcastle to Basingstoke once and that was enough for me!

@@vickibrown1611 thank for your lovely comment. 😊

I left the black pudding 🤢🤢

Why not? I guess you’d have to love long train journeys, like I do, otherwise I can see why you would question why.

@@autumn5852 You have obviously never been a rail commuter, (especially in the bad old days of BR, slam door rolling stock, constant industrial action) and experienced the living death of being a commuter 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year, and have got do it, as it was the only way of paying the mortgage and keeping a roof over your head.

I was a commuter in London for several years - bus and 2 tubes to and from work in central London. I guess I just like trains but obviously not everyone does. 😊

@@BevMattocks But not a train commuter doing an hour each way every day on overcrowded ancient rolling stock that was little better than a livestock wagon. Tube and bus means you had a relatively short commute within the greater London area. I have to admit that my local trains today (Southeastern) are a far cry from the 1970s and post covid with home working now the norm, amazingly empty. I still wouldn't take a long distance train journey in the UK though just for the journey. Quite frankly what is there to see between Aberdeen and Penzance? A train journey through the Alps with stunning scenery would make more sense. A personal favourite of mine is Kiruna, Sweden to Narvik, Norway. Why not give that one a try? It's spectacular any time of year.

@@grahamcook9289 I have been a commuter and I love the old trains ~ me and my mum were just talking about them the other day - fond memories. But I’ve definitely never done anything just for money and definitely not to pay a mortgage - having a roof over my head isn’t the most important thing in my life, which is probably why I’ve been homeless several times and lived on the streets twice. But that’s preferable to me than doing something I didn’t want to do, in exchange for money, which to me is a form of prostitution and that’s not for me. I value the things in life that money can’t buy even though I also love luxury first class travel. I guess I just love life and all the experiences rather than the things that money can buy.