Category Archives: My Wife
Not the Alan Titchmarsh Show – with Bot Shots
Original YT playout date: 11 July 2009
Duration: 10:21
A rather interrupted look at my garden. I lost some of the stills I took for the end bit so I made them up with other bot (anical) shots I made earlier. The song is “Vecher na reyde”.
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Scenes from Domestic Life
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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Indian Meal at Nikhil’s Asian Village, Raszyn
Original YT playout date: 18 April 2009
Duration: 16:02
“This was my wife’s choice for our Wedding Anniversary. It’s one of our favourite restaurants, and definitely the best Indian restaurant in Poland.
We tend to eat there a bit, and then get the rest packed up. It does for several meals afterwards!”
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To You, Who Soar on Eagle’s Wing – original Song for my wife
Original YT playout date: 13 April 2009
Duration: 1:29
To my wife, who is like an angel in human form, I wrote the present song (words and melody) in 2002 in Moscow.
I wasn’t able to play it very well, and I am still not very good at performing it – maybe some musicians out there can help me do a proper rendering of this composition? There are two verses here, but the whole poem was four verses long, and I cannot remember all of it. The chords given below are what they should be – the piano here is obviously not in that key, even before I chipmunked it!
1. To (C)you, who (G)soar on (a)eagle’s (e)wing
A(a)bove all (C)other (e)women,
To (a)you al(e)one this (a)song I (C)sing
My (a)heart with (G)love a-(e)brimmin'(E)
To (a)you al(e)one this (a)song I (C7)sing
My (F)heart with (G7)love a-(C)brimmin'(G)
2. The mountain lake and forest fringe
Are fair enough to view
But far beyond their beauty’s range
I hold the look of you
I cannot recall the third verse, which related to the sound and scent of her, but the fourth verse logically follows:
4. Because my senses you full fill
Good sense it seems to make
That I should love and love you still
And never you forsake.
And that’s exactly what I’ve done!
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Elena’s birthday
Original YT playout date: 13 April 2009
Duration: 12:48
Here’s a little memento of the party we had for my angelic wife Elena’s recent birthday. We got some of her favorite people and went to one of her favorite places – Kolomyja in Konstancin Jeziorna.
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Banja Luka
Original YT playout date: 15 March 2009
Duration: 4:32
It’s a restaurant in Warsaw, ul Pulawska 101, where we took Takahiro-san after his wonderful demo of Japanese calligraphy, which you will have seen on my channel.
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Tanya’s birthday, Again!
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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Huliganov’s Cookery Show #3 – Lithuanian Sandwiches
Lithuanian sandwiches, Huliganov Cookery Show, culinary, Elena,
Original YT playout date: 8 March 2009
Duration: 6:42
Following on from the success of “Huliganov Salad” and “Streets of Philadelphia”, Viktor Huliganov showcases “Lithuanian sandwiches”, in which at least one element, the bread, actually comes from Lithuania and the other bits can easily be found there. Probably.
No Lithuanians were hurt in the making of this sandwich. No Lithuanians have probably ever actually eaten this sandwich. The latter may account for the former, and vice versa.
The rooks, the horse, the cat and the snowman
Original YT playout date: 3 March 2009
Duration: 14:18
The rooks come home to rest, and I take my kids to their horse therapy. Later on we see our balcony snowman and discuss how the comments of a few morons led to my needing to take down a successful film. Between these morons on the one hand and morons like Warners on the other, I am losing material these days almost as fast as I can put it up.
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Sika deer in Ashridge
Original YT playout date: 10 February 2009
Duration: 39:12
“I can’t belive you you film this, let alone make other people watch it afterwards, REDICULOUS!” wrote one commentator. Nevertheless, I am enjoying watching it afterwards, as it has my parents on and little Sophie’s voice, which otherwise would be lost for ever as my parents are gone, zichro baruch, Sophie hi gdolah achshav, and this will never happen again. So even if someone doesn’t like it, I don’t really care too much. I like it. Yeah, it’s a pity that the video cam is blurred, but that’s what I had. Some people see the world like that anyway, because they don’t realise that they need glasses. Just as some commentators comment like that because they don’t realise they need more brains.
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Drive through Warsaw on a Saturday Afternoon in Winter
Original YT playout date: 3 February 2009
Duration: 19:37
From Praga Polnoc to Ochota just to see a bit of Warsaw.
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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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