MY DAY – SOME GOOD SOME BAD

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So today was a day of mixed fortunes, My day started early, I went up to Savernake forest and had a ride on my more conventional bike and I also flew my DJI Flip. In the afternoon, I went more local around Swindon, where I jumped on my recumbent bike, and rode around some of the eastern part of the town, I then heading into town where I picked up yet another puncture.

[Music] [Music] Good morning. Good morning. Hello once again, YouTubers. Andy with you with a another video. So today, this morning, you join me up at Savanac Forest. I’ve not been here for a few months, actually. I’m just out taking the old doggies for a little bit of a morning walk. Um, I’m on my bike today because I’m having a few issues, a few problems with my feet. My plantar fasciitis unfortunately has um has flared up once again, and I do find it quite difficult uh to walk. Um anyway, such a lovely place around here. Great way to actually explore it is with the bike. Obviously, I can’t go too fast because have got the two little doggies with me. So, uh on this section of the video, we’re going to be doing some riding. I’ve also got my flip with me. So, I want to be doing some flying in and around the forest, which I find quite exciting. Just gets you in there really. A place where you wouldn’t normally sort of go walking in the forest. I’ve got to be a little bit careful because there is a bit of a tick alert in the UK at the moment. I don’t really want to be going in there and crashing my drone. Have to go and find it, risking getting bitten by a tick. Uh so we’ll have to keep a bit of an eye on that one. Also, there’s a bit of rain in the air. I can just feel some rain coming down now. So, if we do get some rain on the lenses, on the cameras, uh I do apologize for that. Not an awful lot to, you know, I can do about that. But it’s just really nice just to get myself out here and to be part something which is I think quite amazing. Okay. Right. Right. So we haven’t got the uh the Neo with us today. So we’re going to make do with the flip. Only got the one battery which isn’t great. Get filming. And away we go. Right. Right, we’re just going to take you back and up and you’ll see where we are. There we go. Gives you a bit of an idea of my whereabouts here today. I’ve got Sonac Forest tucked up there in the northeast side of the county of Wiltshire, Southern England. And a bit of mist around today. That’ll be rain by the way. Uh we had no rain in the UK. Not much to talk about really for quite a while. And we do need some rain quite desperately. I’m kind of glad to say that we’re now getting some. Uh but not really on my day off. Anyway, we’ll take you back down. We’ll take it take you back down. We’re going to take you in the forest. That’s kind of what I like to do on the on this particular channel. Um you kind of normally do this with with the uh with the Neo. Unfortunately, the Neo has had a bit of a an accident, let’s say. It’s now with DJI, and I think they’re going to work their magic on it. I have got the care package with them. So, I’m kind of hoping that it’s going to uh come back uh in one piece, or a new one anyway, or fixed up or whatever else. Anyway, so what we’re going to do now, as you can see, it’s an absolute bloody jungle in there at the moment, isn’t it? I mean, look at that. That was like my back garden about a year ago, just before we moved in. Anyway, I don’t want to down this. I don’t really want to be going in there trying to find it just because I think there’s snakes, there’s alligators, there’s yetis, there’s ticks, there’s all sorts going on in here. I’m just going to go just for a little exploration. Um, so I’m just going to gently have a a cruise through the wood with the uh the DJI Flip shooting at uh 4K 60 frames per second. And I just want to see what there is in here today. I’ve not been in here for several months. Actually, just because of the high tick alert in the UK and um yeah, if you get bitten by one of those things, you can get infected and it will cause you probably a bit of a problem. So, just keep your eyes out, guys. We might see something kind of interesting in the form of deer. in the form of lesser spotted great British yetis. I’m just losing signal. So, I’m just going to bring it maybe back towards myself slightly just to regain some signal power. Yes. Anyway, so uh regarding the um the Neo, uh sent it off on Monday. Today, Saturday. with them. Uh they are asking for the flight logs. It wasn’t attached to the um the app at the time. So I can’t really send them any really. I was doing FPV um with the goggles, but um I sent them the video anyway on YouTube and they can have a good look at that and they can determine from that I suppose perhaps kind of what went wrong. But I guess they want to get into the actual minutia of the data that what they want is a data file to just kind of analyze what actually happened. But I have got a care refresh with it. So I’m hoping that it’s going to um they’re going to come up trumps for me.
Morning. How you doing? All right. Good.
Good. Good. Yeah, good. Thank you.
So out for a morning run. Anyway, guys, isn’t this just wonderful? Just great just to cut loose every now and again just to uh break break free from the the big smoke uh from the town. And just to come out here and uh just get a a little glimpse of nature really. The wonderments of nature. The health benefits I think are just enormous. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. Yeah, I think it’s uh I think it’s really important to um check yourself out if you’ve been in a forest somewhere, especially when you got shorts on. Check yourself out, make sure there’s no ticks on you. Um with the rise of people doing camping and things like that, getting outside, which is great. Uh obviously there’s upsides and there’s downsides to it. I guess one of the downsides is that uh the increase in the risk of getting a tick bite and also getting limes disease. Anyway, uh as you can see, I’m on my recumbent cycle. Uh there’s a bit of rain in the air, so I think this might be a bit of a soggy affair. So, I just want to get out, really get some exercise, fresh air, and uh just go and do something which I really enjoy. Anyway guys, my path lies this way. [Music] Okay. Right. Ah, WH Smith over there in Swindon. A bit bit of a breeze around. It’s a bit blowy, but we’ll give it a go. Filming. [Music] Have a look at the uh Oh, wrong way. There you want to go. Okay. Let’s [Applause] have a quick look at WH Smith cell, shall we? See if we can see um any down drones or anything like that on the roof of this place. I’m not sure we will. Mine, but you never know. We might see something interesting. [Applause] You never know, you might see something interesting. It’s quite a quite a big warehouse to be fair. You never know, you might see a something interest. I can go down, pick it up, and bring it back like a like a DJI Neo or something. That would be handy, wouldn’t it? If I could find one of those right now. [Music] I I don’t think we are, but you never know. [Music] Yeah. [Music] Okay. Right. Great Smiths in Swindon. [Applause] I’m just going to shoot shoot along really just to see if I can see something. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while actually, but uh just really hadn’t really had the time to do it. [Music] There’s a bit of wind around, I’m afraid. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] Oh, well, I was kind of hoping that there would be uh perhaps a a DJI Mini 3 Pro or maybe a Neo up there or something, but uh no such luck, I’m afraid. Anyway, it’s starting to rain a bit more now. So, um not sure what I’m going to do. Just probably keep pedaling and get wet. [Music] [Applause] Right, we’re going to uh have a quick ride through town, see what’s going on. I don’t know. It might be something interesting. Saturday afternoon, so it’s probably one of the busiest days of the week, if not the busiest. So, we’re just going to see what see what there is. Might stop off somewhere, get myself a a drink or something and a bite to eat. [Music] Right. So, we’ve uh got a bit of a problem. Uh I’m in Swindon uh town center at the moment and I’ve got a flat tire on my recumbent. Quite know what’s going on with this because that’s the second time basically in two outings uh with my recumbent. Um and I’m not exactly sure how I’m going to uh get this one home. I’m going to try and blow the tire up, but uh I don’t know if it’s going to stay up or not. Uh if it’s a slow puncher, I can probably make my way back home. Uh but looking at it, uh it’s going down quite quickly. I think this most definitely is probably uh the end of my cycling uh for today. Right, just pumped the tire up. I’m just going to leg it home now. Just hopefully I can get home. And it’s still kind of inflated. I think I might have to stop maybe two or three times uh to pump it up. Um but I don’t know. I just got to keep an eye on it. Hope for the best. Right. Oh my gosh, it is. It is a crappy day today, I have to admit. Anyway, we’re just going into Queens Park. It’s a bit of a shortcut uh to get back home. The tire, let’s have a check, shall we? See how it’s getting on. Yeah, I have lost some compression. It is going down. I think I’m going to have to change it, I think. Got a spare inner tube, I think, in the back so we can change it over. [Music] I’m absolutely absolutely soaked at the moment, but I’m enjoying myself kind of. [Music] Okay, it’s good workout, right? Is there anything on in Queens Park today? I don’t think there is. That’s a shame. I was kind of hoping there was a beer tent around somewhere. Never mind. Not to worry. Probably best I get home anyway before this goes flat again. [Music] So, I’m about a uh about half a mile or so away from uh from my house and uh yeah, I’ve got a uh definitely going down is definitely a problem with it. It’s going to need changing the tire or the inner tube. Anyway, you know, I’ I’ve ridden hundreds if not thousands of miles as a man and child on bikes. Not one not one puncher did I ever get. But on this thing, I’ve had two punches in quick time. I don’t know what it is. I don’t know what it is. It just seems to be uh bit of an Achilles heel. I don’t know if anyone else has got any recumbent cycles out there who seem to get a lot of punches, but I don’t know whether this is part of the course or whether I’ve just been unlucky or not. I don’t know. Okay. Right. We have made it home. I didn’t have to stop. Oh my gosh. Look at that. There we go. It’s as flat as a pancake. So, the next time I come out on this thing, whenever that’s going to be soon, I hope, uh, the first job I’ve got to do, is to change the inner tube in my tire. So, I need to check that I’ve actually got one. So, there we go, guys. I’m sorry it’s a shortened video possibly, probably. I don’t know how long it’s going to go on for, but I did have other things in mind. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get over to the other side of town to Lydia Park because there is a balloon fiesta going on there today and I was hoping to try and document some of that. Anyway, so yes, this thing is becoming a a bit of a trial. I thought this would be a bit easier uh than it actually is. Two punches in two outings isn’t good and it’s quite expensive as well. Anyway guys, I want to say thanks for watching. Take care. Bye for now. I’m most definitely going to go and have a cup of tea and get myself dry. Bye for now. [Music] Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. [Music] Hey. [Music]