A slight holdup...

As many of you know, my 'Juniper Project' was due to be handed in for marking in May this year. It has been agreed by the University to allow a further year on this project with full funding. This is a major show of support by the University for which I am extremely grateful. I will be concentrating on 2 other modules until April so please bare with me, but don't stop feeding in information as you so kindly have been doing.

I will continue to work with the 'Cumbria Wildlife Trust' and the 'Fix the Fells' teams, giving regular updates on this blog. This means that I will be with them for another whole year and gives so much more time to research and film, not only Juniper but other aspects of their work.

To all those who have contributed so far, I still have all that material and it will be used. So stay with me, I am very much still on with this and I look forward to meeting many of you again over the next 18 months and beyond.

 Link to 'Juniper Planting' film which is now being used by Cumbrian and Yorkshire trusts. Have a look, it's far more exciting than you might think :-)

CLICK HERE  For the much improved version of the 'Juniper Planting' film. I'm learning as I go along with this and it's great fun.

The filming the BBC, filming the National Trust went well last week and I'm putting a short film together on that over the coming weeks. Shooting the film is probably the most enjoyable part in all this, and second to that comes the viewing of the final piece. The bits in the middle, all the editing, converting, magic sound tricks, titles and music can take it out on your mind a bit. I'm still trying to stop singing 'Hill Billy Rock' and I now know all the words.

Finally, the film...

Finally, and a steep learning curve, here is the film I made on Lingwood Fell with volunteers from both the Cumbria Wildlife Trust and the 'Fix the Fells' team. Thanks to everyone on that day and especially Mike Douglas for leading the way.

Click here to see 5 minute film