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Links to family videos and events with a brief description of the video. Clicking the link will take you to the video player where you can watch the streaming version of the video or download the full resolution video.

Note that the earlier videos were made in a time before HD and so the quality is not the best, sorry

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30 April 18th, 2020
COVID-19 Haircut Revenge

William getting his own back as it's his turn to cut my hair

29 April 8th, 2020
COVID-19 forces me to cut William's hair

A video of me trying to cut William's hair using a beard trimmer

28 October 20th, 2018
William's 13th Birthday

A video from William's birthday

27 October 22nd, 2016
William's 11th Birthday

A video from William's birthday

26 October 19th, 2014
William's 9th Birthday

A couple of videos from William's birthday

25 October 19th, 2014
William's 9th Birthday

A couple of videos from William's birthday

24 April 12th, 2014
William Playing Baseball 1

Video 1 of 4 videos taken on my new 3D camera ... unfortunately the camera only lets you see in 2D as you record and I was unaware that the right lens was obscured by the chain fence. These videos have been cropped into 2D and are really not the best quality at all!

23 April 12th, 2014
William Playing Baseball 2

Video 2 of 4 videos taken on my new 3D camera ... unfortunately the camera only lets you see in 2D as you record and I was unaware that the right lens was obscured by the chain fence. These videos have been cropped into 2D and are really not the best quality at all!

22 April 12th, 2014
William Playing Baseball 3

Video 3 of 4 videos taken on my new 3D camera ... unfortunately the camera only lets you see in 2D as you record and I was unaware that the right lens was obscured by the chain fence. These videos have been cropped into 2D and are really not the best quality at all!

21 April 12th, 2014
William Playing Baseball 4

Video 4 of 4 videos taken on my new 3D camera ... unfortunately the camera only lets you see in 2D as you record and I was unaware that the right lens was obscured by the chain fence. These videos have been cropped into 2D and are really not the best quality at all!

20 July 14th, 2013
William “Playing” With Toy

A great video that falls into the William's going to be embarrased when I play this to his girlfriend category. (0 minutes 43 seconds long)

19 December 26th, 2011
William Ice Skating

A short video taken by someone else of William Ice Skating at Walnut Creek on Ice. (0 minutes 54 seconds long)

18 December 25th, 2011
William and Yoda Christmas 2011

A quick video of William opening Yoda, a 2011 Christmas present. (1 minutes 07 seconds long)

17 October 18th, 2010
Billy Goats Gruff School Play

William's first performance in a school play. (4 minutes 57 seconds long)

16 October 9th, 2010
William Playing Soccer 1

Some mobile phone videos of William playing soccer. I rather like the bloke in the background trying to score a basket in video 3.

15 October 9th, 2010
William Playing Soccer 2

Some mobile phone videos of William playing soccer. I rather like the bloke in the background trying to score a basket in video 3.

14 October 9th, 2010
William Playing Soccer 3

Some mobile phone videos of William playing soccer. I rather like the bloke in the background trying to score a basket in video 3.

13 October 3rd, 2010
William On His Bike

After much screaming and stomping around, William has learnt to ride his bike. Here's a very short video of his success. (23 seconds long)

12 July 9th, 2010
William At The Drinking Fountain in the Park

We were out at a local park in Walnut Creek. Scooter had been running around and decided he needed a drink, only the water fountain turned out to be rather exuberant. Rather than help, I figured it far more practical to pull out my mobile and video his efforts (1 minute 14 seconds long).

11 April 15th, 2008
William At The Gym

Karen signed William up for gym sessions and took the camera along to video his activities. I have to say, I'm really jealous and want to have a go on the “spinny round thing” that William plays with in the middle of these clips (where his feet start flapping around in mid air). I also wouldn't mind a go on the trapeze, but I guess someone has to go to work to pay for it. (4 Minutes 52 seconds long)

10 March 3rd, 2008
William Riding His Scooter

Karen taking a walk along Ocean Beach front whilst William rides his scooter (1 Minute 07 seconds long)

9 October 20th, 2007
William's Second Birthday

The big day! William's second birthday. I think I was supposed to video the happy event, but after being with a bunch of two year olds for a couple of hours I wasn't really seeing the happy side of things. I did think about breaking this clip up into the birthday song happy bit and then doing another to the theme tune of “The Great Escape.” In the end I've left it altogether. And, if I say so myself, I'm rather pleased as to how well my narration has come out - even though I'm going to be sleeping on the couch for a while. (5 Minutes 01 seconds long)

8 October 19th, 2007
William opening his birthday presents

Poor old daddy had to be in the office early and Karen insisted on giving William his presents in the morning, so I missed out on this. You will notice a couple of things:

  • First, Karen goes to the trouble of setting the video camera up on the tripod and then sits with her back to it
  • Second, The cameo by the cat - not the one at the beginning, the second one that comes in, flicks his tail, moons the camera and walks off through the kitchen
  • Third, which present did Karen forget to bring up and video? Yep, the one from her parents. No turkey for her at Christmas!

Amazing what you pick up on when you're doing the editing and have to watch each clip about 100 times. (3 minutes 50 seconds long)

7 February 21st, 2007
William Eats Sand

William on his first trip to the beach with his mother decides he has a liking for sand. We've always said he'll eat anything. (25 seconds long)

6 February 10th, 2007
William Plays With Kes

A short clip of William with a feather duster playing with Kes (30 seconds long)

5 December 31st, 2005
Video Clips from William's First Year

Video clips from William's first year put together with an interesting introduction. (6 minutes 59 seconds long)

4 December 31st, 2005
Morphing Slideshow of William's First Year

Extensive use of special effects to create an animated slideshow of William's first year including the morphing of three dimensional shapes. (7 minutes 45 seconds long)

3 December 31st, 2005
William Slideshow Year 1 (Alternative)

Different music and more humorous animated slideshow of William's first year (3 minutes 22 seconds long)

2 December 31st, 2005
William Slideshow Year 1

Pictures of William from his first year put together in an animated slideshow (8 minutes 02 seconds long)

1 November 12th, 2003
Wedding

Video of our wedding that doubles up as a practical joke on the unsuspecting best man. That said, this was taken with a borrowed video camera and the video is really bad consisting mainly of shots of peoples legs. If you can put up with the bad video and poor editing (I can't re-edit as don't have the source files), the conversation and ongoing joke is quite funny. Big warning on the file size here and apologies for the bad language at the beginning of the car journey. (27 minutes 45 seconds long; November 2003). (Note, I can re-edit now, but can't be arsed).