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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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All I ask of you
Original YT playout date: 25 December 2008
Duration: 4:50
Yes, it’s another musical muckaround with Sophie, as we deconstruct the song “All I ask of you”, Llord “Scruffy” Webber’s remake of the song “I don’t talk to strangers”. Yes I know it’s not the Phantom but Raoul that sings it in the thing, but frankly I don’t care! Enjoy.
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Huliganov’s “Part of your World”
Original YT playout date: 15 December 2008
Duration: 3:12
Huliganov has Sophie’s help in dismantling this Disney classic.
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Homework for Sophie
Original YT playout date: 21 October 2008
Duration: 11:05
Sophie has to cut short some singing and get on with her school homework – a painting of an old fashioned alarm clock…
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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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Silly Singing Lesson
Original YT playout date: 12 July 2008
Duration: 7:19
Sophie gets a silly singing lesson off her Dad. If anyone knows the numbers of any decent singing teachers in Warsaw, you can see we need them, so please get in touch!
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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.
Party on the terrace!
Original YT playout date: 12 June 2008
Duration: 8:11
Sophie’s eight years old today, and everyone turned up, even a special guest all the way from Australia,
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Spaghetti Scene Re-enactment
Original YT playout date: 20 May 2008
Duration: 1:14
You thought it was only Brandon Hardesty that could do Hollywood re-enactments on YouTube? Not so, as this re-enactment of the famous spaghetti scene in Disney’s Lady and the Tramp by my delightful kids will aptly demonstrate.
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