Saturday notes...

I spent the day filming myself for Bigwave TV's promotional film about the Beagle Project which is going to convince the BBC to commission an eight part series about us. Now, I spent a morning at their studios having this very thing done, but they decided the 'promo' needed some footage of yr humble svt looking a self-conscious idiot rugged in the great outdoors.

This TV thing isn't as easy as they make it look. First of all my 'cameraman' had eaten some dodgy mussels last night and couldn't leave his bathroom for a morning standing on a gale-blown pier filming my kite against the backdrop of the North Sea. And I doubt David Attenborough suffers overweight day-trippers wandering between the camera and him, eating endangered cod and chips. In an attempt to get out of the wind, I went and sheltered under some cliffs. And had to move sharpish when they started falling down around my ears. Then the battery on the camera ran out, along with my temper.

On a brighter note, we have a letter of support from Andrew Davis, the Welsh Minister for Enterprise, Innovation and Networks, of which more later.

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