Winter.

I'm terrible at writing the blog so, I thought I'd film it.

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  1. Dan9 April 2013 at 19:17

    Why are you so bad at writing the blog Uncle Guy? It's quite easy...
    (nice film by the way!)
    ~Daniel Guy Mc

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