{"id":3439,"date":"2013-02-05T21:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T21:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2013-02-05T21:47:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T21:47:19","slug":"video-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=3439","title":{"rendered":"Video Frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a video-editing binge over the last couple of days&#8230; mostly because I&#8217;ve had about 50 gig of footage sitting on my main drive &#8212; taunting me &#8212; for the last 6 months or so &#8230; and also because I&#8217;m running seriously short of SD card space. Of course, I *could* just go out and buy more SD cards &#8212; but that&#8217;s just delaying the inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>So, recently uploaded to YouTube&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Burning the Clavie.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>One of the oldest Scottish fire customs. A bit more sedate than I was expecting &#8230; though the fire got a bit lively when they started chucking buckets of oil onto it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IoJZ5ut0REg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Randwick Wap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An odd May Queen custom that the village of Randwick has (apparently) been doing since medieval times. It involves some odd cheese-rolling activities (they roll the cheeses widdershins around the church a few times, IIRC, but that happens days before the main event, so isn&#8217;t shown here) &#8230; and carrying a may queen around the village before dipping her in the local well\/pond. Disappointed to discover that the dipping has turned into more of a symbolic thing that an <em>actual<\/em> dipping these days. Shame! I think this all might have happened on the same day that we visited Helston Furry dance &#8230; but memories of that week are already a bit blurred. There&#8217;s an <em>awful<\/em> lot of strange fertility rite nonsense goes on down south&#8230; it&#8217;s difficult to keep track of it all!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2SfL2B4ytM?list=UUxwI9HkSOTaHAuj-0AdfRYA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jedburgh Ba&#8217; Game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This possibly makes the game look a lot more exciting than it actually is&#8230; since there are lots of dull 20-minute periods where players pile onto a big heap in the middle of the street and nothing happens&#8230; then somebody will crawl out, pretending to have the ball, and half the scrum will chase after him &#8212; only to discover the real ball was smuggled away in somebody&#8217;s pocket while nobody was looking. <\/p>\n<p>Not the most photogenic of games. Quite a curiosity though.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SSXMCk-HRqc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a video-editing binge over the last couple of days&#8230; mostly because I&#8217;ve had about 50 gig of footage sitting on my main drive &#8212; taunting me &#8212; for the last 6 months or so &#8230; and also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=3439\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,46,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre","category-calendar-customs","category-travels","tumblog-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}