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You'll have to excuse the lack of updates lately - try as I might, I can't make an interesting blog entry out of the tales of sleepless nights and projectile poo that make up life with a newborn.

Feeling as though I'd been neglecting my video camera in favour of the DSLR I thought I'd take it along with us to record our week-long stay on the island of Ischia, just off the western coast of Italy.

Feeling in an inspired mood after watching the latest Vimeo Video School tutorial on how to make a bicycle camera mount and viewing the examples others had posted I thought I'd have a stab at making my own mount and video. Recording my cycle to work seemed like a good journey to start the experiment with.

We had a lovely weekend on the Grand Union canal and seeing as the great British waterways aren't somewhere I often find myself I though I'd take the camcorder along and make a short film of our journey.

I decided to take the camcorder along to Secret Garden Party this year to record as many of the sights and sounds we'd experience as possible and edit it all down into a movie when we got back to civilisation.

Dubrovnik is a beautiful part of the world so it was great to have the camcorder and be able to to film as we explored the streets near where we were staying and on the islands when we ventured beyond the City walls.

My obsession with filming, editing and posting almost everything I do continues to rule my life. The latest despatch from my daily comings and goings is from our recent trip to the Spitalfields City Farm in Hackney, just behind 93 Feet East which is most odd. A farm, with real, live animals just two minutes from Brick Lane!? I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it myself.

My new camcorder arrived on Friday morning so I took it out to document a sunny weekend trip to London Fields. I've uploaded the finished - albeit rough - edit to Vimeo. I think my main problem was my post Stag & Dagger hangover shakes which meant the footage I shot was pretty shaky - Kate's shots are much steadier - although it's hard to keep everything still when you're walking along dodging East London trendies.