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Blueprint, week 2, day 2. Today was spent in the extremely picturesque village of , which is the gateway to one of the nine glens of Antrim. Peter Woodman, our tame archaeologist, joined us on set for the first time to film a sequence in the , then I recorded a piece to camera on the Glendun Viaduct (pictured). It was Peter's first day of filming with us, and he did coped admirably. He's back with us tomorrow for the Giants' Causeway sequence. Apparently he blushed at my earlier description of him, on this blog, as "the distinguished achaeologist Peter Woodman"; so, in future, I'll refer to him as "the legendary archaeologist Peter Woodman".

Martin and Dave built a jib (a long crane with a camera fixed at the end) at the entrance to the caves to film me walking through them, then packed up and relocated on the road across the viaduct, with Warren on hand to stop the cars occasionally when we were recording. Warren's job the rest of the day was to gather footage for our secondary film on the making of Blueprint. Incidentally, it takes about an hour for two cameramen just to set up the jib and about 45 mins to break it down. Martin works from within the control van, guiding the camera on the end of the crane by computer, while Dave uses both hands to move the crane into various positions. They communicate by headphones and mics, and one essentially becomes the hands and feet of the other to produce some wonderful shots.

Seamas and Bryan got some underwater shots a part of Peter's sequence, while Natalie extended her skills at omnipresence to oversee the full operation.