One Big Vehicle

Original YT playout date: 3 June 2010
Duration: 6:18

They parked up this modern version of a road roller near our office. The video also contains footage of the Lutheran Church attended by Jerzy Buzek, former prime minister, who is now chairman of the European Commission.
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Tczew Tczew Train

Original YT playout date: 1 June 2010
Duration: 28:26

I went to Tczew and this was going to incorporate more than just the train ride. I had grand ideas about updating the earlier videos I took in the older part of Tczew and maybe even popping to Gdansk to film a bit, but in the event I was just too busy. So you’ve got some train footage, and a few comments, and that’s it, I’m afraid. You get to see train food, the high water on the Vistula and the work going on to improve the track. And there’s a mildly amusing story of the woman who marched out of the carriage when I got in like I was some kind of leper or potential rapist, only to be caught with an invalid ticket by the guards with no small amount of brou-ha-ha a little later.
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Supermarket Dash

Original YT playout date: 31 May 2010
Duration: 15:17

This is a slant on reality – a Polish supermarket in Ochota, Warsaw. Shoppers do their shopping here as in thousands of other supermarkets around the world, but here I use the trolley as a dolly and film the whole of my weekly shop. The camera is “hidden in plain sight” attached with a bendy desk tripod to the trolley.
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Family Saturday

Original YT playout date: 30 May 2010
Duration: 18:57

This is a typical recent Saturday at home, and out on the rickshaw.
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Bring It, Pusher!

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Original YT playout date: 1 May 2010
Duration: 7:32

We start off with the last blast of this winter – the snow in the evening that started falling just as I was leaving the office and was several inches deep in a few minutes. Then we look at good old Pushkin and his fights with my wife and his retrieving balls, etc.
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