NEW BUBBLEGUN, OLD VIDEOS

Belated Happy Monday, gang.

Firstly... most of the OLD Digi videos should be back up on the new channel as the were before. Indoor fireworks! The one with the dry ice! Bloody all of it. Most of it. There are still a couple of episodes I don't want up, because, well, I didn't like some of the humour in them. Soz.

Even at the weekend I had a Tweet from someone telling me they’d found a ‘hack’ to watch the old vids by finding them in a “secret” playlist. Clearly, we never did a good enough job of getting the message out that they were still up there.

Secondly, there's a new Bubblegun out now.

Here's the blurb: In our celebratory 10th anniversary special, the non-award-winning Bubblegun presents our most tangent-laden episode yet. Sanja offers up a new episode idea, and we stay on that for approximately five seconds before Biffo stars self-indulgently name-dropping celebrities!

PICKERNICK

We drove down to the coast on Saturday – a visit to see my daughter for her birthday. Heavy traffic, inevitably, due to the warm weather, but we had a lovely picnic. Lots of delicious beige food, as is the way.

We were intending to head to Seven Sisters cliffs, but all the nearby carparks were full. We lucked out though, because there was overflow parking in a nearby forest, with a nice picnic area, and… hardly anybody about. Heck, they even had toilets.

We eventually did drive to the cliffs and bought an ABSURDLY expensive ice cream - six quid fifty, for pity's sake! - but didn’t stay long. People everywhere and it stunk of old seaweed.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t quite as well as I thought I was, and went back downhill yesterday. The way that Covid lingers sucks monkey ass (hear my oughingon the new podcast)! I’m going to take it easy the next few days, because we’re still intending to film this weekend. Well, as much as I can. I'm clearing the decks with the day job for filming.

Sorry things have been a tad delayed this month vid-wise due to my wretched health, but we’re going full-steam ahead imminently.

The first few videos on the new channel will be along the lines of the Lincoln one, with a few tweaks. Feels like a good kick-off, and a decent way to re-introduce Sanja and I. Also, we can get them out relatively quickly and start building up the new channel.

After that we’ll head into our first epic, which is still due to be filmed in Wales. Yesterday I started researching another video idea that we can film while we’re there.

In other news, the first three eps of Drong’s Challenge now exist in assembled form! We need to film some greenscreen stuff, and I need to do my edit pass on them, but we’re hopefully going to launch in September on the main Digitiser channel.

Also: let’s do the mass Zoom on Thursday at 7.30pm. Every paying Patreon member is invited. I’ll send a link and reminder nearer the time.

Paul