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Uncle Davey’s Herts Content, #13 “More Geese than Swans”, aka “fowling the water”.
Original playout date: 5 April 2008
Duration: 8:32
We’re having fun feeding the birds by the Gade in the Water Gardens in Hemel Hempstead, Sophie and me.
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Uncle Davey’s Herts Content, #12 “Sophie Having Fun”
Original playout date: 2 April 2008
Duration: 10:42
It’s Sophie’s choice … and her choice was, to go to the Jarman’s Park ice skating rink in Hemel Hempstead. Yes, it’s number twelve in the Uncle Davey’s Herts Content series
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Uncle Davey’s Herts Content, #11 “Around Water End”
Original playout date: 29 March 2008
Duration: 9:22
Some nice colour on this video again. We look at trout farms, watercress, beautifully composed village scenery and sheep in pasture. What’s not to love?
Don’t miss the images of Hertfordshire pudding stone (which is a real mineral by the way, not just a pleasantry) and the the English pub food in Gaddesden.
Uncle Davey’s Herts Content, #1 “Herts is where the home is”
Original playout date: 16 February 2008
Duration: 1:04
This is London, London calling, viewed from a plane as I take Sophie to Hemel Hempstead to see her grandparents and the by-product of this is a whole new series – Uncle Davey’s Herts Content – although admittedly it’s not all in Hertfordshire, this series.
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Kazimierz Dolny
Original playout date: 27 January 2008
Duration: 4:58
We had a day ouot invited by our friends Peter and Maria to their home in Kazimierz Dolny, and we saw many things, recorded in an interesting gallery section as well as moving footage later.
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Pushkin – The story so far…
Original playout date: 29 December 2007
Duration: 5:27
Some flashbacks to when we had bought Pushkin some months earlier, his homecoming in September 2007 and subsequent weeks of growing up and getting used to us.
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Once upon a December – Anastasia
Original playout date: 28 December 2007
Duration: 2:28
A nice little musical muckaround with Sophie and Tatiana providing impossible levels of cuteness.
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Parasol mushrooms
Original playout date: 22 December 2007
Duration: 1:54
“This is one from the early Autumn on the terrace.
If there’s one thing that doesn’t fly on youtube it’s anything to do with gardens or gardening videos, but despite that, here I go uploading another one. Will I ever learn? Maybe in 2008, but it’s still 2007 now, and I gotta upload off my material or just dump it, and I thought someone out there might, by some odd chance, take an interest in these fine fungi.
By the way, I say, I say, I say: why did the parasol mushroom get invited to all the best parties? Because he was a “”fun guy”” to be with!”
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Christmas family musical muckaround
Original playout date: 9 December 2007
Duration: 15:39
This is not exactly seasonal for the time I am uploading this to this blog, but I am simply putting my old films up here in order and right now I am 10 years and six months behind the original play out times. I hope that this figure will get lower and lower.
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Alsace holiday #8/12 – Miscellaneous Holiday Fun
Original playout date: 27 October 2007
Duration: 9:48
Just some leftover clips from the Alsace holiday, such as Sophie looking like a puffin while puffin’ and blowing. Very cute.
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Holiday in Alsace #7 – Going up Monkey Mountain
Original playout date: 19 September 2007
Duration: 6:57
Agent de YouTube Uncle Davey takes Sophie up Monkey Moutain in Alsace, which is a rhesus monkey enclosure and Sophie has a nice time feeding them.
It’s a bit scary really the way she comes right up to them. Thankfully they are not so aggressive and usually will warn prior to biting like most animals.
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