Category: Uncle Davey's Natural Selection

I love nature. This section contains everything that falls within that interest area.

Enjoy the Soup

Original YT playout date: 13 March 2010
Duration: 12:32

I go round checking what everyone’s up to. The result is this random soup, which does in fact include the consumption of soup.
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1984
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Verity
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Fear of Felines

Original YT playout date: 7 March 2010
Duration: 4:06

In answer to PerChristensen’s recent comment on a Prague blog liking the effect used, I did this whole video in it. Here we can see our piano teacher’s daughter being help over her fear of cats at the start, although Irina putting Pushkin through his attack paces may not have been totally reassuring to that little girl. That’s Russians for you, I suppose.
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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
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A Parade of Horribles: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 8
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Sunset with migrating starlings and the beginnings of a tornado

Original YT playout date: 16 January 2010
Duration: 5:49

This interesting sky was filmed on my drive home last year one November evening. The song is a composition of mine which doesn’t have words yet, but I am thinking about plum trees with white blossom on, seen across the plain of a river in spring flood. If anyone wants to turn that into a lyric, be my guest. After that we have a fairly random scene where Sophie starts to do one of her extemporaneous “stories” while we are waiting for our takeaway to be ready. I’m not sure that what you see in the sky is really the beginning of a tornado, but at first glance it sort of looked like one. Not sure how else something like that would be there just on its own like that …
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Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
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The Shack
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Кфтвщь Ыщтп Цшерщге Цщквыю

 

Original YT playout date: 29 July 2009
Duration: 2:360

Those of you familiar with the Russian keyboard will be able to work out what the heading says to this video. Let’s see who can decode it first in the comments.

I thought I had switched it back to English letters, and it wasn’t intentional, but then I thought it might be a bit of fun to leave it like that.

Anyway, here’s a bit more of the good old temporaneous music, mixed with footage for which I had no decent sound anyway. All very random…
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The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Values, and Spiritual Gro...
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Ironwood: A Catalina Novel
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Teaching the Bengal Cat a taste for human blood

Original YT playout date: 27 December 2009
Duration: 2:24

They will play fight with Pushkin even when he’s not in the mood, and that’s when he shows them who’s boss…

Good for him, I say. Not an ounce of sympathy from me if a cat scratches you!
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Caller Unknown: A Novel
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The Deal
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