Right. I've got this steadycam nonsense sorted inmy mind now. I;ve thoguht it through and the mistake I made was assumign the significant movement were vertical, but it's all about dampening rotation isn't it?
As for Tipperaray being along way away. Distance is propertional to how bad the weather is. I've noticed that if it's warm and sunny then my car always seesm to be 'just over there'. If it's precipitating profusely then it suddenly becomes 'all the way over there'.
It's the UK, it's always raining, ergo, it's a long way away.