Category Archives: My Wife
Family Christmas 2008 (Polish and English traditions fused)
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!”
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Uncle Davey’s Herts Content S2 E9 – Whipsnade Zoo part 2 of 2
Original YT playout date: 13 August 2008
Duration: 42:03
In this part of my document on Whipsnade Zoo (part of Uncle Davey’s Herts Content second series) we take a closer look at individual animals, having done one lap of the zoo in the first part by car…
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Uncle Davey’s Herts Content S2 E8 – Whipsnade Zoo part 1 of 2
Original YT playout date: 10 August 2008
Duration: 33:25
Whipsnade zoo is part of the Zoological Society of London’s set of world leading animal parks. It is an important conservation centre and part of the contemporary Noah’s Ark. It is also one of my favorite spots on the planet. This part of my film of our visit is one circuit by car. Closer looks on foot will be in part two.
Whipsnade is not strictly in Herts, but as it’s just outside it qualifies for my “Uncle Davey’s Herts Content” series on Hemel Hempstead et environs.
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Uncle Davey’s Herts Content S2 E6 -Bournemouth and the New Forest
Original YT playout date: 6 August 2008
Duration: 13:39
We had a drive down to Bournemouth via the New Forest. It may not be actual Herts Content, but within striking distance.
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Novobrantsy
Original YT playout date: 1 August 2008
Duration: 2:30
Irina Levkovitch does an impromptu reading of this Russian poem of uncertain authorship.
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Uncle Davey’s Herts Content S2 E4 – Tree Cathedral Picnic
Original YT playout date: 1 August 2008
Duration: 18:16
A beautiful memory of my parents and also Sophie and Tanya as little girls, not to mention a younger wife, although she is always young.
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The Rickshaw Rant
Original YT playout date: 22 June 2008
Duration: 58:14
This video h a s i t a l l !
Well, so it should, bearing in mind it lasts nearly an hour! Still, I would be very pleased if my dear listeners would sit back and just enjoy the show. Get a coffee!
Here’s some of what awaits you:
* Relaxing scenes from Warsaw’s Szczesliwicki park
* One of the rantiest impromptu rants I ever did.
* A unique ride through the park and Ochota in Warsaw’s (I believe) only family rickshaw. (There are a handful of commercial rickshaws in Lazienkowski Park for tourists, but I never saw them elsewhere, and only for hire, whereas mine isn’t)
* Creative use of the new annotations function, including lyrics to some of the background music and supplementary info. These annotations can and will be added to during the active life of the video.
* And to cap it all a couple of interesting pieces of incidental music in the background which I made a few years ago, and have been meaning to incorporate for some time.
Enjoy!
BTW For people in Poland wanting to get a rickshaw like mine, the place to go is
If there is any interest in founding a rickshaw society for Poland or an international one, anywhere on the interenet, let me know. It seems the natural answer to the fuel crisis, but we need to lobby cities for wider paved areas, and for the space between bollards which prevent car access still to be broadly spaced enough to allow rickshaw access. Also they don’t go up kerbs very well, so kerbs need to be smoothed off at road crossings.
Secret Love
Original playout date: 7 April 2008
Duration: 3:26
I once had one, but not any more. A nice romantic film here with pretty pictures of my wife blending in and out.
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400th Video – My Valentine Card to Elena
Original playout date: 16 February 2008
Duration: 9:29
This was the 400th video on my channel and also the 2008 Valentines Day, so I made this composition from all our wedding photos. They were taken in fact by three different people but arranged in chronological order here.
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Pushkin’s Pre-castration video
Original playout date: 9 February 2008
Duration: 2:38
If you have an uncastrated male cat then after about eight months, they are going to get into musth, and then they are very frustrated if they can’t go out in search of females. Pushkin was lietrally climbing up the walls to get out of here just to try to find the female cats he could smell on the breeze. Castration is a mercy to a cat if he is not going to breed. It is also part of a contract if you don’t pay the pedigree price.
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Visiting Old Friends in Fuerstenwalde
Original playout date: 30 January 2008
Duration: 5:24
My wife had been asking for some time to be taken to see her old friend also called Lena from Belarus and I gave in in the end. In time for her to meet before the cancer which was eating her finally took her some months later, tragically.
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