An Owl, A Pussycat and a Python!
Listening to a podcast of BBC Radio 4’s arts programme “Front Row” earlier this week, we chanced upon a feature about a collaboration between the Royal Opera House and The Mayor Of London Presents initiative who are staging the Cultural Olympiad timed to coincide with the sporting events in Stratford, London E20 taking place over the next few weeks…
You can listen to the podcast or read all about the venture by following the links below, but what caught our ear was mention of an extraordinary piece of film on YouTube featuring… an owl and a pussycat. To quote The Guardian newspaper, Jones says he was inspired by the online film depricting the chummy real-life antics of a cat called Fum and a barn owl called Gebra. “The owl flies over the cat dangling a mouse and the cat tries to grab it. Then there are shots of the cat rubbing up against the owl and being pecked.”
Click above to view the clip… though we’re not convinced it’s a mouse being dangled by the owl but rather, its jesses. And we’re in two minds about some of the contents of the clip itself too, though the relationship between the cat and the owl is something quite unusual to behold so is worth a look.
One other tid-bit: did you know the Royal Mail created a new postcode especially for the Olympic Park – London E20 2ST.