Entries with the tag: ‘Cats’
Regular readers of my postcards will recall that every now and again I make oblique references (and sometimes not so oblique) references to my cats. One of my first postcards was about My cats – My “children”. At the moment I have three cats, or perhaps I should say that at the moment three cats […]
Not everyone likes cats – although it is sometimes hard to imagine – given the amount of Cat photos and videos posted on social media outlets like Facebook and Youtube. I obviously like cats – I have a numbers and often refer to them in my postcards. At the moment I have four, (we have […]
It’s not an official holiday, but in Japan 22nd February is commemorated as Cat Day., and so it seemed an appropriate occasion to look at felis Kyrgyzstanus. (I suppose that I had better own up and admit that I made that up … there is no such breed.) I am well known for my cats - typical […]
On Sunday we had an intruder in the office … and in my attempt to try and tackle him, I came off worst. We have had a number of intruders in the past and I have come off worst in some of those other encounters … but this time the intruder wasn’t of the two legged […]
Every now and again I write about the cats … over the years we have had lots of them, but at the moment we have five of them, each with their own character, charm and personality:
It’s amazing how many people seem to find pictures of cats alluring. A few days ago, however, there was a startling photo posted on a series of websites. The Daily Mail, in the UK, headlined the story about a cat show in Bishkek, “Is this the world’s scariest cat? Sphynx monster looks more like a […]
Tom, the youngest of the kittens has a loud mew and a very demanding character. We think that someone abandoned him when he was only a few months old, possibly because of his mew and possibly because he hadn’t been properly house trained … something I think we have finally dealt with. We are not […]
I would like to thank everyone who took the trouble to write giving me feedback about the postcards. As I have said to some of them, without their feedback I never know what people make of them. Last week, for example, there were several messages about movies. Someone said that none of the stories that […]
This page was written in 2003 and was one of the most popular pages on the original ianbek.com site … and people still refer to it, even though the site has been down for a long time. One person even claimed that they chose to visit Kyrgyzstan because of it … and I forgive her […]
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