The oddest thing

                                     Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons

If you are easily offended by less than standard English, please do not read on. Actually, it's language that's extremely standard for some!

After months of not being able to post any live video clips, I uploaded one recently. It didn’t work for me, but I left it in situ anyway. The oddest thing was that it seemed to play for others.

I looked back at it for the umpteenth time and to my surprise was able to watch it, if not in glorious technicolour, at least with some semblance of life!

Be prepared now to be bored by a succession of videos!

It transpires that it’s not that straightforward. There’s a degree of fiddling about (technical term) to be done in order to make it viable. Changing the bit rate, you understand (I don’t)

Then the in-house guru did even more research, muttering the while about ‘poorly written programs, but it’s free isn’t it?’ or, as some soldiers have been known to express it, ‘The f***ing f***er's f***ed, sir’ preferably with a broad Glaswegian accent (apologies to any Scots out there!) That expression unambiguously and completely sums up the problem.

Now we have a solution. ‘YouTube Studio’ is the answer to a maiden’s matron’s prayer, apparently.

So, to celebrate, here is a short video that Barry made while walking Arthur a few days ago. We see many dog walkers in the area – there are probably a dozen dog-walking businesses, some more ‘controlled’ than others.

In case you cannot quite make it out, that is a multi-coloured standard poodle bouncing along, ahead of more conventionally-coloured dogs. He seems a happy boy and cannot tell that he is not quite as other dogs!