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Bristol Post
National
Tristan Cork

Bristol grandparents' Sound of Music song raises the bar for coronavirus lockdown videos

One of the many private challenges of the coronavirus lockdown is the broken link between grandparents and their grandchildren.

Unless the generations live together, young children will not be having any social or physical contact with their grandparents for weeks - and the long months ahead are being spent on laptops and phones with video calls.

Many grandparents are determined to maintain their usual roles as the chief family entertainers of young children, despite not being able to be there in person to crack the jokes, play the games and take the kids out to have fun somewhere.

And, as this video shows, Clive and Jayne Peters, from Bristol, are getting particularly creative when it comes to making sure their grandchildren still have something to laugh and smile about - even if it is actually them being laughed at.

For the couple from Brislington pulled out all the stops with this all-singing and all-dancing rendition of the classic Do-Re-Mi song from the 1965 musical film The Sound of Music.

You'll all remember Julie Andrews as the Von Trapp children's governess Maria, on top of a mountain in Austria, teaching the rudiments of music with a song most people assume is called 'Doe A Deer'.

But in Brislington, Clive and Jayne Peters's version involved something slightly more silly, and gloriously fun, recorded for their grandchildren.

Clive, 58, showed off a physique honed from doing triathlons - he was in shorts and some kind of hat - while Jayne, 56, took advantage of the fact her son happened to have a nun's outfit lying about the house. You make the most of what you are locked down with, in these times...

The video - which was filmed in one take - sees Jayne start off by singing the Julie Andrews part, with Clive bringing a great deal of enthusiasm to the extra help provided by the children in the original song.

And there's actions too - running, dancing, hand movements, they leave nothing out on stage, giving everything to the show.

"They are always joking about together and having a laugh," said daughter Emma Briggs. "They have been married over 20 years and this is what it's come to.

"Dad enjoys going out on triathlons and mum enjoys time with her grandchildren, so this is what they done instead of that," she added.

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