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A Game of Chess
Original YT playout date: 25 December 2009
Duration: 14:50
Merry Christmas! Many young people around the world will open their presents this morning and find their very first chess set among the contents of their stockings, sleeping bags, or aerodrome windsocks that they leave out for their presents the night before. Eagerly, these kids search YouTube for some help in getting started with the Royal Game – and alight on this newly posted video. Here, they hope, they might find some help getting started with the game, get some tips for beginners, get something to sharpen there play. Well they might. But then again, which is far more likely, they might not. But a good time was had by all, anyway…
If you want to play turn based chess on line then the place I recommend is http://www.itsyourturn.com I’ve been a member there for about seven and a half years. My user name is Uncle Davey, so find me and give me a game there! You get to play a certain number of moves a day even without paying a cent, while the unlimited moves and ad-free environment is a very reasonable sub.
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Sophie’s Piano Practice
Original YT playout date: 29 October 2009
Duration: 1:13
She’s on two hands, already. Progress can be painful, but as they say, “no paino, no piano”.
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The Pancakes of the Opera
Original YT playout date: 27 August 2009
Duration: 4:31
I eat pancakes while Sophie sings the Phantom of the Opera song.
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Not gonna get us
Original YT playout date: 23 August 2009
Duration: 1:35
Huli is joined by a little Tatu impromptu tribute group, Sophie and her friend Bom, singing the Russian classic.
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Prague Vlog #9 – Collecting Sophie
Original YT playout date: 22 August 2009
Duration: 56:25
We drive from Prague to Colmar in France and back via Prague to Warsaw to bring Sophie back from her Grandparents.
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Huliganov doth Shakespeare
Original YT playout date: 31 May 2009
Duration: 15:25
Teaching Sophie the famous balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet.
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La Voix
Original YT playout date: 17 May 2009
Duration: 3:13
“Move over, Malena Ernman! Little eight-year old Sophie is gonna re-set the whole standard for the singing of La Voix, the Swedish entry to this year’s Eurovision song contest. I thought this was the best entry, although I have to give kudos to Alexandr Rybak who wrote and performed his own winning entry for Norway, despite actually being Belarussian.
No more “”Norvege, nul points”” this year. Rybak’s entry had an record breaking score (helped no doubt by the fact that there are now 42 voting countries, not just 18 or so like when ah were a lad). Still, I was sorry to see Sweden’s siren only about half way down the scoreboard when all 42 countries had given their verdicts.
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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Eight Year-Old Composer
Original YT playout date: 21 April 2009
Duration: 5:17
Sophie likes to ad lib a bit on the keyboards – maybe she will compose something big one day.
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Lessons from Grandma
Original YT playout date: 1 March 2009
Duration: 34:24
Sophie learns knitting and scone making, two traditional crafts handed down in England from grandmothers to grandchildren.
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Berko Revisited
Original YT playout date: 28 February 2009
Duration: 14:26
It’s Berkhamsted revisited, on a request by a disgruntled resident of that town, who didn’t like my last footage.
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Morning Musical Muckaround
Original YT playout date: 17 January 2009
Duration: 27:38
“A fairly typical weekend morning in our house, with me not managing to get out of my pyjamas before being comandeered for an impromptu singing of kiddie karaoke without the words to hand.
Still, it’s all fun. Hope you enjoy.”
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