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25 February (Part 5) - Riku Fryderyk. Queen of buses

As if you haven’t had enough of me on Bonkers today here is yesterdayְ’s bus ride with the junior YouTubers on board. (Best to click it for Full Screen.) The young lady who has edited her video in record time is really very good at it. I think I mentioned before that I once made a film that got a one-off screening at the BFI theatre on the South Bank for being runner-up in a national competition but that was way back when we had to cut film apart and glue it back together in a new order and even a fade to black was near impossible to achieve. Sound? Forget it. By comparison with Riku’s effort mine was total c**p!

She is an extremely talented young lady and her expertise with the editing and getting exactly the right shot puts nearly all the other YouTubers I follow to shame.

If you are looking for me, then I am seen briefly about three times, downstairs, two seats back from the middle door. I come and go because I got off in Bexleyheath and as locals will recognise the editing of the shots is anything but chronological.

And then there is the maggot sandwich in which I contribute about a quarter of Hugh Neal’s weekly blog. Contrary to what you might read there I did not work on Phone Book production until I retired but only until 1972. There was an acrimonious falling out with a senior manager who said I could only visit the Forest Gate Directory Enquiry unit, which was very much my baby, if the Union agreed to it. I said I would go anytime the local manager said I could. And so I found my newly acquired computer skills put to good use in Telegrams. It wasn’t all bad, I got a promotion out of it.

 

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