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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Original YT playout date: 17 May 2008
Duration: 13:41
This sunken ancient port near to today’s Limassol is barely visible through the waves but the walk there from the hotel reveals several natural curiosities, as this fourth video in my Cyprus series shows.
Continue reading “Uncle Davey’s Cyprus #4/6 – A Walk to Amathus”
Original playout date: 16 February 2008
Duration: 4:07
Anyone who has pets and needs to get them neutered or castrated might be surprised to see sexual behaviours still linger after the mechanisms driving such behaviours have been set aside.
Continue reading “Pushkin’s Post-castration Video”
Original playout date: 9 February 2008
Duration: 2:38
If you have an uncastrated male cat then after about eight months, they are going to get into musth, and then they are very frustrated if they can’t go out in search of females. Pushkin was lietrally climbing up the walls to get out of here just to try to find the female cats he could smell on the breeze. Castration is a mercy to a cat if he is not going to breed. It is also part of a contract if you don’t pay the pedigree price.
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Original playout date: 27 January 2008
Duration: 6:41
The cats are singing songs of war to each other, and Istanbul street food fills my stomach, as we enter the second instalment of my Turkish series.
Continue reading “Huliganov’s Turkish Experience #2 – Evening in Ortakoy”