I hope that this works....so youtube only lets you load clips that are less than 10 minutes... so I cut the doco into 3 sections..worked like a dream.
Here they are, the first one is short, the second two are longer. Hopefully it works well this way (also the file size is HEAPS smaller than the other way).
(for any computer nerds out there...the reason that the audio wouldn't sync was that the quality wasn't good enough..... to fix that involved making it too huge for anyone to watch!...well as far as my small brain could gather)
Enjoy! (I watched again today, very amusing).
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
all about eggs problems...
Kris told me she'd put the video up so I had a watch, and found that the sound was out of sync. I've removed the link for now, and Kris and I will have a fiddle and try to figure it out and put it back up for you all as soon as we can.
Making All About Eggs was such a lot of fun. I would come home tired from uni and Phil would pester me until I would agree to work on it for a while that day. I'm so glad we got it finished, it is such a wonderful memory to have of Phil, and some of the great times we had together.
Mel
Making All About Eggs was such a lot of fun. I would come home tired from uni and Phil would pester me until I would agree to work on it for a while that day. I'm so glad we got it finished, it is such a wonderful memory to have of Phil, and some of the great times we had together.
Mel
Sunday, October 11, 2009
All about eggs...
I bet your wondering what this post has to do with anything. Well, let me enlighten you.
I feel that I shouldn't even be writing this post at all....it should be Melinda.
Melinda, apart from putting up with fat jokes from Phil, has a fantastic sense of humour. She and her friends over the years have created and filmed documentaries -all about leaves, all about toothpaste, all about books, all about tropical tree eating seals. The most recent creation earlier this year is "All about Eggs", featuring Melinda and Phil.
It is a large file as it is a 20 minute film, but as it was only made earlier this year I thought it would be nice for people to see. It is Phil when he was well, hopefully how most of you remember him.
I put it as a movie here, but I think it might slow things down to much....so if you have time, click on this link and check out Mel and Phil.
Click play on the movie, and then after some of it loads it should start..... (it will take a while, i recommend a tea break or a hang the washing on the line break (for the men of course)), that way it won't keep pausing all the way through.
Kris x
The strange thing....
When we started this blog in early February it was because we knew Phil was terminal. Not that those words actually ever make sense to anyone. It was interesting blogging on a number of levels....
a) Phil was known to read the blog...and I think he has even posted on it once. In July after he came back from hospital after his stroke he read the blog, hopefully not the posts from mid-June when he nearly died, but we'll never know.
b) It's hard writing or talking about the fact that someone is going to die. In fact I don't think we every actually wrote on the blog that he was.... Melinda and I cringed every time we typed it and then deleted it again.
The question of "How's Phil?" over this past year has been a tricky one....cause whatever the answer it was inside the parameters of someone who is dying (at a faster rate than the rest of us), so "Yeah, Phil is really well at the moment.", didn't actually mean the same thing as "Yeah, Jenny was sick last week, but she's better now", but knowing whether the people who asked the question understood those parameters or not was an entirely different question all together.
c) Going with that, almost the same thing is the hope that people can read through out polite language to see what is actually going on that we aren't writing/talking about.....(which isn't always really a fair assumption)... I'll give you an example..... In the blog this year, we never talked about Phil's treatment e.g. Chemo... that's because he wasn't treated. Not this year. He had a little bit of radiation at some point this year and an tablet chemo at some point but not to try to cure him. He was being treated as that horrible word a "Palliative"patient.
According to the dictionary on my mac computer - Palliative is an adjective and means: relieving pain or alleviating the problem without dealing with the underlying cause.
Not intended to cure, but to keep comfortable.
Not sure this post made much sense at all, but anyway, I should be sleeping.
Kris x
a) Phil was known to read the blog...and I think he has even posted on it once. In July after he came back from hospital after his stroke he read the blog, hopefully not the posts from mid-June when he nearly died, but we'll never know.
b) It's hard writing or talking about the fact that someone is going to die. In fact I don't think we every actually wrote on the blog that he was.... Melinda and I cringed every time we typed it and then deleted it again.
The question of "How's Phil?" over this past year has been a tricky one....cause whatever the answer it was inside the parameters of someone who is dying (at a faster rate than the rest of us), so "Yeah, Phil is really well at the moment.", didn't actually mean the same thing as "Yeah, Jenny was sick last week, but she's better now", but knowing whether the people who asked the question understood those parameters or not was an entirely different question all together.
c) Going with that, almost the same thing is the hope that people can read through out polite language to see what is actually going on that we aren't writing/talking about.....(which isn't always really a fair assumption)... I'll give you an example..... In the blog this year, we never talked about Phil's treatment e.g. Chemo... that's because he wasn't treated. Not this year. He had a little bit of radiation at some point this year and an tablet chemo at some point but not to try to cure him. He was being treated as that horrible word a "Palliative"patient.
According to the dictionary on my mac computer - Palliative is an adjective and means: relieving pain or alleviating the problem without dealing with the underlying cause.
Not intended to cure, but to keep comfortable.
Not sure this post made much sense at all, but anyway, I should be sleeping.
Kris x
Friday, October 9, 2009
reality and small shirts...
My phone beeped a little while ago, and I thought, it's Melinda telling me that Phil's back and it's all a dream. He's looking forward to seeing me on the weekend.
On a lighter note...slightly humorous....
Ben was putting on his suit for the funeral the other day....and his shirt wouldn't fit, it was too small........ Phil was cremated wearing the suit he wore to Ben's wedding...but wearing Ben's shirt not his own....woops.
Kris
On a lighter note...slightly humorous....
Ben was putting on his suit for the funeral the other day....and his shirt wouldn't fit, it was too small........ Phil was cremated wearing the suit he wore to Ben's wedding...but wearing Ben's shirt not his own....woops.
Kris
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
One week and one day.
It's been over a week now. I don't think it has really sunk in yet. Ben and Lovy went back to Melbourne on Sunday and I'll be going back to college this afternoon. I suppose that is when reality will really start to set in.
I'm uploading the copies of the program the eulogies I have so far (one more I haven't got a copy of yet).
I have also made the tribute video into a movie file so I will upload it at some point when I figure out how. I have been learning how to use blogger this week.....quite a challenge.
I don't think I'm quite ready for this blog to stop yet, but not really sure actually. Will upload more photos too, just learning about how to do it!
Thankyou for everyone's support. We have felt so loved and cared for.
Feeling a bit sad at the moment, but that's ok.
Kris xx
I'm uploading the copies of the program the eulogies I have so far (one more I haven't got a copy of yet).
I have also made the tribute video into a movie file so I will upload it at some point when I figure out how. I have been learning how to use blogger this week.....quite a challenge.
I don't think I'm quite ready for this blog to stop yet, but not really sure actually. Will upload more photos too, just learning about how to do it!
Thankyou for everyone's support. We have felt so loved and cared for.
Feeling a bit sad at the moment, but that's ok.
Kris xx
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Saturday October 3rd
This is just a quick entry... well that's what I'm thinking as I start typing anyway.
Today was a hard, but a really good day. Thankyou so much to all the people who came... (the funeral sign-in book had 497 names not including our own.
We really felt loved and supported. The weather even warmed up in the afternoon, blue sky and sunshine.
I think Phil would have approved.
I will be uploading the photo tribute and eulogies etc., in the next couple of days. Tomorrow is Mum's birthday so it will be after that some time.
Kris x
Today was a hard, but a really good day. Thankyou so much to all the people who came... (the funeral sign-in book had 497 names not including our own.
We really felt loved and supported. The weather even warmed up in the afternoon, blue sky and sunshine.
I think Phil would have approved.
I will be uploading the photo tribute and eulogies etc., in the next couple of days. Tomorrow is Mum's birthday so it will be after that some time.
Kris x
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