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Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones and Matt Baker. | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
I noticed I have got Gos on my top. Things you are likely to hear on a | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
history documentary. Boudicca, to see you Boud. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Mock The Week is back with a permanent but face and it is Chris | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
Addison. A new face, what about that. A brand-new face. | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
It is lovely to see you, Chris. I was was speaking to Rory brem nar | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
earlier, he sends his regards. He said you were the greatest stand-up | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
of all time. Did he say that with a straight | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
face? He did. Do I owe him money? The most | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
annoying thing was I only had a few minutes, but he ran me through your | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
whole biography. We have a game called Mock The One | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Show later. We need to hear jokes from you at home. Yes, the subject | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
for the jokes are birds, the seaside and the gym. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Birds, the seaside and the gym. Please send them in. E-mail your | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
jokes and all will become clear later on. | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
Dom is here with advice on how to get out of your gym membership. | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
you remember where you were when the horror of 9/11 started to | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
unfold? It was an extraordinary day in Britain and it was difficult to | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
tear yourself away from the pictures on television. For some | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
that day holds more intense memories. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
I was back in the office working, sitting at my desk and somebody | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
just came upstairs and said, "Have you heard what has happened? ". I | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
was at the police police superintendent's annual annual | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
conference. I was travelling on a train. I was | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
working in my studio space in the World Trade Center. The studio was | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
two floors below where the plane hit. As I stepped out of the | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
elevator, there was a big blast which came down the corridor and I | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
was thrown across the corridor and it was smoke and debris. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Suddenly my mobile phone went and it wasn't Downing Street, it was my | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
secretary son Hugh, who was -- second son Hugh, who was watching | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
the television through a shop window. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
People started coming in because they were worried at what was going | :02:48. | :02:57. | |
What I recall at the time was there was a sense of utter shock. | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
reaction was incredit incredulity. Was this real? It was like watching | :03:06. | :03:15. | |
a movie on TV at home. I started making my way to the fire escape. | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
As soon as I switched the phone off, it rang again and it was the | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
Cabinet Office. People couldn't believe what they were watching. | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
It Australia went quiet and thinking about people they know and | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
the devastation that was caused out there. Then I remember coming round | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
the last block of stairs and seeing daylight coming out which was a | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
sigh of relief and officers shouting "go, go, move, move." The | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
sound was so loud that I looked up and saw this big cloud coming down | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
on top. Gordon Brown was talking about the | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
City of London and the possible attack on Canary Wharf. We believed | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
there would be an imminent second attack in the United Kingdom. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
recall receiving a text from a friend of mine saying, "Worrying | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
times. Muslims seem to be behind this." The hole atmosphere on the | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
train began to transform. My wife pointed out that she felt that | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
people had started to look at us and to her, a Muslim woman in a | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
high a hijab, in a different way. I didn't think I could keep | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
breathing. I remember feeling around and felt somebody beside me. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
I realised it was a fireman. I remember he put his jacket over me. | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
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I want to see if that fireman made Vanessa Laurence is here with us | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
now. Extraordinary store story of you making your way down 91 floors | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
and we have a photograph of the moment you left the building | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
captured by a random photographer. Tell us happened next then. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
From that point on, I remember staying beside the fire engine for | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
quite a while just with that fireman and other people were | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
coming around trying to get water that was coming out from the mire | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
engine to clear the dust off them and everything and then another | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
officer came by and said, "Do you want me to take you away from | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
this?" So we just started walking away and at the same time he is | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
trying to calm me and he is saying, "I have seen all my colleagues walk | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
in there" the ware of us are walking away dazed. We kept on | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
walking. People were heading towards the Brooklyn Bridge. I kept | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
walking north. And you are from Glasgow and that | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
photograph ended up in a Glasgow newspaper? Just randomly. All the | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
photographs appeared of people and it happened to be in the Glasgow | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
Heard. I wasn't back in Scotland at that point. Yeah, it was strange. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
So the painting that you were working on at the time. It is a | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
beautiful piece of work. You have redone it because the original was | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
left-back there. So this was done from memory. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
It was done from memory. I had a couple - I lost all my photographs | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
and everything - but someone had given me a photograph that was from | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
the towers and I had the top half of it, but it is done from memory, | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
the light and everything. And this is the view out of the of | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
the studio. It would go, it would be further | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
West and then all the way around, east and over to Brooklyn and | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
across. It was Amazing. Ahad a hole panorama. | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
It must have been a painful thing to do. Why did you feel you needed | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
to complete that picture or start it again, but finish it this time? | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Because I had been working on it that morning so it was important | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
because it was an unfinished piece. All the work I had been doing in | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
there was unfinished, but I had to carry on from where I left off. | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
How did it feel when you completed it? It was good. I enjoyed painting | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
it, but no, it was good and I'm glad I've done it. It is the only | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
one I have done, but I'm glad I've done it. It is not as good as the | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
original in my head. Nothing is as good as the original | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
in your head, ever. Thank you for joining us. There is | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
services up and down the country this Sunday and you can see a piece | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
of steel work at the imperial war museum in sal sord. | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
Ssh Salford. Now as ever, Dom has been looking | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
through your e-mails to see if he can give you a helping hand. | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
A lot of you have run into problems when you need to find a tradesman | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
in a hurry. HomeServe caters for that thing and they are a one stop | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
shop that claims to be Britain's - a number for emergency experts. A | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
viewer got in touch because he was at the end of his tether with this | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
company. My daughter's father-in-law and I | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
were working in the kitchen getting rid of old paperwork when we cut | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
into an old water feed which burst. I rang HomeServe and they wanted | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
�215 upfront to send somebody out. The plumber that came out wasn't | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
able to carry out the work. He didn't have the right equipment and | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
actually made things worse bending the pipes. The first plumber | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
claimed he was unable to fix the pipe and a team was needed. | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
HomeServe refunded Ian the cost of the first plumber, but a second | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
visit was more expensive. They wanted to charge me �549. The | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
second guy came out and did what the first guy should have done, | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
turned it off in the street, the job was done in 15 minutes. | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
I was upset I was charged double the amount I had originally agreed | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
to. I'm disgusted at the way they have treated me. I feel I have just | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
been ripped off. So Dom, Ian tried to contact | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
HomeServe? Yes, first of all he tried phoning and then he wrote to | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
the customer services and attempted to write to the CEO, he got no | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
reply. He contacted us and we contacted HomeServe. They sent us a | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
statement. They said they have offered an apology for Mr Skinner's | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
unacceptable experience and they are offering a full refund and | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
compensate him for his inconvenience. They say the first | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
plumber had been dismissed by the company for failing to meet their | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
quality standards. They have changed their pricing now. And for | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
that service that Ian received they have dropped the price from �549 to | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
�250. Ian has accepted the apology and the compensation came through, | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
�50 and he got a bunch of flowers today. | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
Did he? What a lot of people need to do, have a list of numbers and | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
put them on the back of a door of who to call, an electrician, | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
plumber, anyone like that in an emergency. Know where your stopcock | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
is. Trades people, when you see them on these federation sites and | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
trade bodies, they are paid up members. It doesn't guarantee their | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
work will be good. Do your own checks on whoever you call up. | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
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Do you do any DIY, Chris? No. No, Do you know where your stopcock is. | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
No. My wife does all of that stuff. There are two options, I can do the | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
DIY and she can watch me and we will start doing it and I can | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
pretend I was going to do something else in the first place. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
We are moving on to the gym now. It is about people who join gyms and | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
don't use them. A lot of people we stop going, we | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
stop hitting the treadmill, but the contracts keep on running. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
I had to end my contract with an illness and to have to pay three | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
months, I thought was a bit... asked them if I could leave. They | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
charged me for the last month and didn't let me stop my contract and | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
I had to wait for a year and had to get parental consent. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
When I went away this summer, I wanted to postpone my contract, but | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
you have to cancel for a month in event. I went at the end of July to | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
cancel and they said if I want to cancel now, I would still pay until | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
the end of August. I came from Cardiff to London and | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
they didn't have that chain of gym here. I had to pretend that a | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
family member died. It is such a hassle and lots of us | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
have run into this problem. The Office of Fair Trading went to | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
the High Court and they asked for action against unfair contracts. We | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
have had a lot of complaints. The gyms had a lot of complaints as | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
well. Now there was, the case they took to court was about a company | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
called Ashbourne Management Services. The High Court ruling | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
ruled that the contracts were unfair. Therefore, unenforceble and | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
that opens up the floodgates. Go to your gym. Don't go to the High | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
Court, have a chat with your gym and see if they let you out of the | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
contract. There might be a small penalty. If you can't get anywhere, | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
ring Consumer Direct. Always go to the gym first and give them a | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
chance to resolve the situation. Great. | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
When we told Marty Jopson to don't his wetsuit. | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
We sent him to a less tropical surfing Mecca. | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
Waves are fascinating, beautiful things, just the sound of them is | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
mesmerising. They are a vivid demonstration of nature's power, | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
moving across the oceans day and night, constantly changing in shape | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
and size, but if you wanted to find the perfect wave, where would you | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
go? Well, I was told the answer was here, at the very top of Scotland. | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
But you know what, the sea is as smooth as a baby's bottom. It is | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
cold as well. But usually the waves look like | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
this. They are so good that every year Thurso hosts international | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
surfing competition. For surfers these waves can rival the best of | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
what of Hawaii and Australia. Sam lives in Cornwall, but prefers | :14:10. | :14:20. | |
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So this is where you get the perfect wave in Britain? British | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
surfing mecca, that is Thurso. makes the wave perfect? For me, I | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
like a 6 ft wave with a steep face, a long-running war and a bit of | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
variety. And that is what you get here? Yes. One of the things that | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
makes it so good for waves is its location. Waves are created when | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
the wind blows across the surface of the ocean. The waves that reach | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
the first so start hundreds of miles away out in the North | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Atlantic Ocean, with great big storms. That is one of the reasons | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
why they are so good. It is clear ocean the whole way. At their peak, | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
they can reach heights of 20 feet. But what is actually going on out | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
at sea before they reached the beach? You might think it is just a | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
moving mound of water. That is what it looks like. So if I was to take | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
his boat and put it in the water, it would surf all away to the end | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
of the tank. Right? But that is not what happens. It just goes up and | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
down. And that is the same for the water molecules in the wave. They | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
are not moving forwards so much as just going up and down. In fact, | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
the only thing moving forward with the wave is the energy, the energy | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
that powers the complex motion of billions of water molecules. The | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
moving Mounds of water are just an illusion. But when the waves | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
approach the shoreline, their behaviour changes. As the water | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
becomes more shallow, the bottom of the wave travels more slowly than | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
the top, making the waves curl and break. Exactly how it breaks | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
depends on the shape of the sea bed. The reason that the waves break so | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
perfectly here is that underneath the water is a smooth, sloping | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
sheet of rock. We have waves coming from the north-west and at certain | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
points on the coast line you get a reef like this, dipping to the sea | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
at the right angle and the right direction to make a perfect wave | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
for surfing, which can break out at the point and can peel along the | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
rocker very slowly. At high tide, when the waves are here, where are | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
they? This is low tide. When the tide moves up, the waves are | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
breaking right where we are standing. What depth are we | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
talking? It is about six feet deep here, with the wave breaking on top | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
of your head. Thurso's location means that it gets powerful swell | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
generated by Ocean storms hundreds of miles away and its underwater of | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
reef reaches into the sea at just the right angle. It has all the | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
ingredients for the perfect wave, just not today. Where are the | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
waves? Bring them on! He has got the hair for it. You are | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
joining Mock The Week when it comes back tonight on BBC Two, as a | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
permanent face. We have a picture of the original line-up. Andy | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
Parsons, Hugh Dennis and Dara O'Briain. And here is the line-up | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
now. The question we are asking is, where were you hiding, because that | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
is the first one and that is the second one. Are you an optician? I | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
was hiding behind Dara. He is quite big and I am fairly slender. That | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
is how we get into the cinema together. I have been on the show | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
for eight series but I have been behind him! On Mock The Week, we | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
had a debate earlier, how much do you really improvise? How much do | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
we improvise? Everyone has seen the news. You think about the news and | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
you have ideas coming into your head. But the best bits are always | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
the bits where something happens in the room and one of us says | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
something and somebody builds on that and it goes back and forth and | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
everybody chips in. The best thing last series was when Dara foolishly | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
brought in an article from an Irish newspaper about how people with | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
large heads are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's. Using him | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
as an example of someone with a big head. He expected sympathy and he | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
got six lines of put down and then he gave us a massive slam dunk of a | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
put-down at the end. That is the best kind of thing, when something | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
starts to take off in the room. It is the improvised bits that make | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
the show. This is actually from tonight's show. This is you having | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
a joke on the wife situation. the local news there was this girl | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
who said, I heard they were going to smash Primark, so I went to have | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
a look. I only went to have a look but I did not going because I am | :19:14. | :19:24. | |
banned from Primark. That is what we need, law abiding looters. | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
well as Mock The Week, you have a new tour starting in November. Had | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
you written it? No, leave me alone! Yes, I have started writing it. I | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
did the first new material last week. This is the terrifying bit. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
People always say, I do not know how you stand on stage. That is | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
easy. The hard bit is sitting there going, what am I going to talk | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
about? Sometimes I see the posters of my show. You have to get it | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
sorted out ages in advance. I see the poster and I think, shut up! | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
Where do you start? I always do exactly the same thing. I sit in my | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
shed, my office at the bottom of my garden. I go, what is funny, leaves, | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
gardens? But you read the paper and as soon as you know you have to | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
make jokes about something, you start to go, is this funny? Why | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
would this be funny? You get into the mentality. You have a new show, | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
Show & Tell, when people bring things in. I brought this in today. | :20:33. | :20:42. | |
Today was my little boy's first day at school. And this is his. So just | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
before he went in, you went, I will be needing that! He went in wearing | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
a clip on one today. Did you take a photo? It is his first day at | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
school and he is wearing this! Is it a posh school? Before I dropped | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
him off at school, I went to see David Walliams and offer him some | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
words of encouragement at the River Thames in Oxfordshire. He is coming | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
over. I don't want to break the rhythm. Give me a kiss, you naughty | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
boy. You are just incredible. What is going through your mind and how | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
are you feeling? Yesterday was really tough because I had a | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
stomach bug. There is one thing you do not want to do when you're | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
feeling sick, and that is to swim. Are you joining us for lunch? | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
I will need a bit of a rub down because I am very sore. There he | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
goes, straight back into it. I have done you bangers and mash. In your | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
own mind, do you think you're going to do it? Maybe not by Monday, but | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
at some point in the next decade. Is it harder than you thought? | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
is hard to keep your head together because as soon as you think, it is | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
cold, I am tired, I want to get out, you are letting your mind rule | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
everything. You have to work in quite a lot of pain. In that action, | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
thousands and thousands of times a day, for eight days straight, it is | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
really tough. I have to give you a massage before we go. You have a | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
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lovely touch! I have dreamed of this moment! | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
You were having a bit of a moment with him there. A massage, a kiss | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
on the lips. There is not going to be a late night repeat with a | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
little bit more for the ladies! Let's get back to the serious thing | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
of raising money. David has raised �357,000 so far but he still needs | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
your help. There is a text number on the website to donate and it | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
could not be easier. We also want messages of support to give to him | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
on Monday when he comes in. Send them to us and we will pass them on. | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
When I heard that our photographer Jimmy Crawford was trying to take | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
photos of birds having a bath, I thought we would have to get Dom | :23:13. | :23:21. | |
Littlewood to sort him out. Don't worry, it is not what you think! | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
British gardens are full of sites to lift the heart, and few more so | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
than the Blur and splash of birds taking a bath. Most birds baith to | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
help keep feathers in tip-top condition. The problem is, you | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
cannot normally see the detail of what is actually happening because | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
it is so fast and blurred. So today I am hoping to catch birds bathing | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
in all their glory with high-speed photography. As most garden birds | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
are small and nippy, I'm going to get my eye Ian with a much bigger | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
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and hope for the Co-operative I am using a shutter speed of about | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
eight hundredths of a second which should show the tiny drops of water | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
without blurring. A little bit over exposed but we do have a shaking | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
dog. English summer. Lovely! I am reasonably pleased with the shots, | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
but birds will be a very different ball game. I am going to need some | :24:25. | :24:33. | |
help. And better weather! Perfect. Kim Taylor has helped me with | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
several fantastic photos in the past, and in his front garden he | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
has everything I need. This is a clever flash system which means | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
that the action is shot at a minute 10 thousandth of a second, very | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
artfully. If you just use one or two flash heads, you get hard | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
shadows. The idea here is that we have four, so we get an impression | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
of natural lighting. Can I burst of a few photos one after the other? | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
Unfortunately not, because the flash takes six seconds to recycle. | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
You have to choose your moment, take your shot and then wait before | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
you can do another one. photography side is understandable. | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
We have a lot of flashers ready because it is very fast action. I | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
am going to be hidden behind a screen waiting for it to kick-off. | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
When the birds fly down, test the temperature of the water, it is | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
nice and warm, I think I do have a bath, they splash, I hit fire, and | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
the flashes go off and we have an amazing photo. At least, that is | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
the theory! Birds tend to use bird baths after a dry spell. Given the | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
weather, it could be tricky. I am hoping we might get some fledgling | :25:48. | :25:58. | |
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blue tits, some chaffinch, some siskins maybe. Who knows? For the | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
first hour, any birds are just drinking. But even that is | :26:03. | :26:13. | |
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difficult. They are easily spooked, so I need to be quick. Splash, | :26:17. | :26:26. | |
splash in the water. Nice detail on the water, but for the next three | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
hours, at nothing. In spite of all this technology, it is really | :26:35. | :26:45. | |
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Yes! Yes! Yes! Result! Result. I waited for a long time, about 4 1/2 | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
hours. Your flash system delivered fantastically well. It is a really | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
nice shot. You can see he is flicking the water up with his | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
wings and you can see every drop coming off. Beautiful. We now have | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
some fantastic photographs of birds bathing. | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
In honour of Mock The Week, returning to BBC Two tonight with | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
Chris as a permanent face, we have a little game of our own. Yes, it | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
is time for Mock The One Show. We asked for jokes based on today's | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
show. Chris, do you have your laughter and booing at the ready? | :27:54. | :28:02. | |
What is the first topic? The first topic is the gym. I saw a man lying | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
on the floor in the gym and he was kissing a shrimp. I said, what are | :28:07. | :28:17. | |
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you doing? He said, I have pulled a muscle. I went to my local gym to | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
sign up for yoga class. They asked me, how flexible are you? I replied, | :28:23. | :28:33. | |
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I can't make Tuesday's. The new topic is birds. A dog walks into a | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
pharmacy. He buys a chap stick. Visas to the clerk, will that be | :28:39. | :28:49. | |
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cash or change? He says, just put it on my bill. The seaside. | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
You would hear from the fray while, I am being investigated for | :28:54. | :29:04. | |
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stealing seaside inflatables. I got a lilo. I've got to lie low! | :29:09. | :29:13. |