My wife’s sister – part of our family helping us out since she was 16 ten years ago.
Original YT playout date: 16 March 2010
Duration: 12:14
“We all celebrate
For Tania is eight
Her cake we all ate
And thought it was great
But Mimsy the Yorkie
And Pushkin the Cat
They thought it was dorky
And didn’t want that
They both prefer meat
Not things that are sweet
But at half Pushkin’s weight
Mimsy nearly got ate.”
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Original YT playout date: 7 February 2010
Duration: 1:26:04
This was the footage on my sister-in-law’s mobile phone after she needed to clear it off after having it with her all the time and taking photos and films with it from time to time. It includes our family here in Warsaw, my wife’s and her family in a small farm in deepest Belarussia, and some footage from her final class at school in Warsaw and the fun she had with her classmates then and also on New Year’s with fireworks. In the main it’s Christmas 2008- Summer 2009 footage. I did a tiny bit of post-production and added some music on, but in the main it’s not my film, it’s the world according to Irina.
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Original YT playout date: 2 May 2009
Duration: 8:24
Some images from the balcony before the plants start to recover from the winter.
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Original YT playout date: 13 March 2009
Duration: 12:25
I did a Tanya’s birthday before, but as you can imagine, there’s one per year!
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Original YT playout date: 4 January 2009
Duration: 18:24
“Better get this one off before the end of the 12 days. It shows our family Christmas, which has Polish and Russian traditions on Christmas Eve, and then the English Christmas dinner on Christmas Day.
Don’t miss the “”poor man’s stop-motion”” played out in one of the Christmas presents in the second half of the film!”
Continue reading “Family Christmas 2008 (Polish and English traditions fused)”