Same Narrowboat as Before, But!

Well I'm now going against all my previous criticisms of YouTube, not least due to the amount of music I've been downloading off there recently (hint: install the latest free Flash Player package - it includes a very good .FLV downloader, and a reliable DVD burner), but also because it's become an almost standard host site now for linked or embedded videos within blogs and discussion forums. As such this has tipped the balance back towards us, the sane majority!

So here again is my previous little video clip of a narrowboat having just left the Barton Aqueduct on the Bridgewater Canal. But this time it can be expanded to full screen, and the quality is also better - even though, so I've found, YouTube loses massive amounts of detail due to its excessively high compression.



'Must go out with the camera again and get some better video clips of some of the more decorative narrowboats I often see passing by through Monton Village here.

Edit: "FLASH Player" above should have been "REAL Player".

Monton Village Fete ( 2009)

I've been intending for some weeks to take some more photo's of Monton Village, where I live in Salford, to post on here. Last Saturday, 4th July, was our yearly village summer festival/fete, so it was an ideal opportunity.

I decided to throw all these photo's into a slide show to make them easier to view.

It starts with a view over the canal bridge (near my home), goes past Monton Green and into Monton Road (the village's high street) where most of the stalls were located, and including the occasional view backwards, back up the other side of Monton Road towards Monton Green again (note the village church's spire just visible above the trees), then around Monton Green itself where the (mainly?) kiddies entertainment was located.



Obviously, like most YouTube videos, it's best viewed in HQ and Full Screen.