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Crows & Ravens

Three Crows, on a roof after the heavy Rains this evening. I can't tell if it's the dark Roof tiles, the cloudy, rainy evening skyline or just the shadow like figures of these birds,but the scene was just perfect to look at. I had to make a video, it reminded me of the horror movie (Omen) 1976. First watched the Omen movies probably in 1986 ,but the scene where Damien's evil Crow, attacks a lady and gouged her eyes out, then watch as she gets crushed by a truck, is still somehow ingrained in ones memory many, decades after. Never been a superstitious person but some birds and animals have caught a horrible reputation, no thanks to  folklore and Hollywood,from Cats to Owls,Bats to  Raven and Crows  many folks have an uneasy /spooky feeling on seeing these creatures. Thankfully from watching so many,many documentaries. The amazing wildlife and nature documentarian Sir David Attenborough, has shown how Crows  & Ravens are arguably amongst...

Memories Pre COVID-19

Making & editing- short videos 1 mins or 30secs time-lapse videos, has somehow become a pastime. Making these memories, sometimes really seemed unnecessary,and so I didn't even keep some of them but a habit sometimes just keeps creeping up on you unnoticed. Well,I guess now that the world is going through an unprecedented shutdown - with many wondering what the immediate post COVID-19 world 🌎 would look like for traveling,and social interactions? these memories from different time,seasons and places makes a bit of sense. A list of personal shot videos  in my device ,gallery,and SM accounts, videos from the last 5 years ,with some as recent as Jan,Feb &March 2020.

A jolly good lady

For she's a jolly good lady For she's a jolly good lady Which nobody can deny For she's a jolly good lady For she's a jolly good lady And so say all of us 9th April – #covid19  Day 100 of the pandemic according to world health organization (WHO) timeline – but none the less even as most parts of the world is on lockdown, thankfully, Zoom to the rescue we had a wonderful opportunity to appreciate, celebrate, reminisce as we send forth a great colleague and manager ( Elena) Elena,  It's been an absolute pleasure working with you for close to 10years now, I can still remember coming to your office on level 7 at the Central Services Building(CSB), now Schwann Building (SB) (University of Huddersfield) to discuss the job role for a regional office Nigeria, when the ad was placed. Got the job and have been on this roller-coaster yet rewarding ride since then, indeed they say “times fly by when you having fun”, allow me to rephrase this, time keeps on mov...