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  • The Mad Cat LadyBarbarella a.k.a. The Mad Cat Lady Born in 1966 and raised in Germany. From age 7 had private piano tuition. Taught piano from age 14 onwards. Moved to London in 1984. Played keyboards and sang backing vocals in various bands in London, most notably electro-goth band “Anno Lucis“. Spent a lot of nights in the 80s in the London Goth & New Romantic Scene (Batcave, Frizzby Fox/Hippodrome, Kitcat Club, Slimelight, Camden Palace etc.) Jobs in London: waitress, bike messenger, piano teacher, peepshow dancer, translator, and later medical and legal secretary. 1990s: Started recording solo music projects. 1996-7: Started to learn Web Design and moving away from making music to creating websites. Took part in a lot of Sci-Fi conventions all over the UK and one Babylon5 one in Los Angeles, always dressed up in various costumes (see Photo Gallery). 2000: Adopted Lugosi & Spider from the RSPCA March. Last music projects written and recorded in 2002/3 (Dominatrix Project). 2003: Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. 2004: Moved to Lanzarote, Canary Islands (click here for location). Started learning Photography (specialising in cats) and setting up Catnip Camera and Picture Lanzarote. 2006: Adopted Persian Princess Janelle (after her human “mummy” Teresa died). 2007: Diagnosed with…
  • Meet the CatsLugosi Bully Boy and overall Boss Cat. Likes: Fighting.  Dislikes: Car Journeys. Ruby Little Orange Spitfire Likes: Wrestling with her Brothers, Food, Playing. Dislikes: Being told off for being naughty. Spider Mischief Maker Extraordinaire. Likes: Getting in Trouble. Dislikes: The Vacuum Cleaner. Lugosi, Spider & Ruby – “Haus von Fluffenstein” – Videos Videos of Janelle too (who now lives happily with a good friend) [back to top]
    • Spider & Lugosi R.I.P. Book of MemoriesIn order to deal with my grief over losing my sweet, gentle boy Spider to cancer on 2nd September 2017, I have started a “Book of Memories” as suggested in the very helpful publication “Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers“. This is a creative way to write down all the cute and funny moments that you have of your furbaby, to which you can then come back to in later times/years.  Memories do fade over time, so I started this a few days after his passing while things about him are still very fresh in my mind. It helps work through my feelings of loss over him and turn something so incredibly sad into something beautiful, loving and creative.  I will publish more photos of each page from the book as I go along.  [gallery columns="5" size="medium" link="file" ids="9580,9599,9581,9582,9583,9584,9585,9586,9587,9588,9589,9590,9591,9592,9593,9594,9595,9596,9597"]
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  • Gothic LanzaroteYou might think that a sunny island like Lanzarote (situated HERE in the world) is totally unsuitable for Goths. What have sunshine and beaches to do with Goth, I hear you ask? Well, first of all, deep down most Goths *love* sunshine – meaning that they don’t like to be *in* it because it will damage their gothic pallor, but they love *looking* at it. Secondly, if you hate the beach in the daytime then you visit it at night. You know it’s the Goth thing to do. ;) But to get to the point now, there are actually quite a few things that will attract Goths to this lovely island. The total lack of a Goth Scene is of course not one of them, but while living here I have discovered many things that are very gothic indeed! :) Volcanoes Can you think of a force more beautiful and destructive? These are both qualities that Goths very much live for. Lanzarote is full of volcanoes, although only one is still “smoking” – this one is in the gorgeous Timanfaya National Park and you can actually eat food that has been grilled over the heat of this volcano up there…
    • A Friend’s View of Lanzarote
  • Music Projectsa:link, a:visited, a:active {color:#9E0E11;text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold} a:hover{color:white} p {padding-bottom:20px} h3 {padding-bottom:13px} The following are sound snippets (approx. 2 mins each song) from my old music projects from the early 90s up to around 2003. After that, all my creativity has gone into web design, graphic design and photography, and I haven´t written or recorded anything new since then. Also, sadly, due to bad co-ordination and pain from my illnesses (fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis) I have not been playing or singing live. My music is divided into 3 projects, because the styles are so wildly different, there was no way they would have ever fitted together. The “First” and “Endymion” Projects Under the name “SilkRush” I wrote and recorded the album “First – The Light Side” which contains all my cheerful pop and dance songs (plus some ballads), and “Endymion – The Dark Side” which reveals the darker gothic side of my music – “Shadow Dancers” (Endymion), for example, is a haunting goth piece with Kate Bush-style vocals, whereas “In the Summer Rain” (First) is a beautiful commercial ballad! The “Dominatrix” Project If you are into hardhitting industrial, trance and dark techno sounds then you might prefer this to SilkRush’s more “sane”…
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  • The Mad Cat LadyBarbarella a.k.a. The Mad Cat Lady Born in 1966 and raised in Germany. From age 7 had private piano tuition. Taught piano from age 14 onwards. Moved to London in 1984. Played keyboards and sang backing vocals in various bands in London, most notably electro-goth band “Anno Lucis“. Spent a lot of nights in the 80s in the London Goth & New Romantic Scene (Batcave, Frizzby Fox/Hippodrome, Kitcat Club, Slimelight, Camden Palace etc.) Jobs in London: waitress, bike messenger, piano teacher, peepshow dancer, translator, and later medical and legal secretary. 1990s: Started recording solo music projects. 1996-7: Started to learn Web Design and moving away from making music to creating websites. Took part in a lot of Sci-Fi conventions all over the UK and one Babylon5 one in Los Angeles, always dressed up in various costumes (see Photo Gallery). 2000: Adopted Lugosi & Spider from the RSPCA March. Last music projects written and recorded in 2002/3 (Dominatrix Project). 2003: Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. 2004: Moved to Lanzarote, Canary Islands (click here for location). Started learning Photography (specialising in cats) and setting up Catnip Camera and Picture Lanzarote. 2006: Adopted Persian Princess Janelle (after her human “mummy” Teresa died). 2007: Diagnosed with…
  • Meet the CatsLugosi Bully Boy and overall Boss Cat. Likes: Fighting.  Dislikes: Car Journeys. Ruby Little Orange Spitfire Likes: Wrestling with her Brothers, Food, Playing. Dislikes: Being told off for being naughty. Spider Mischief Maker Extraordinaire. Likes: Getting in Trouble. Dislikes: The Vacuum Cleaner. Lugosi, Spider & Ruby – “Haus von Fluffenstein” – Videos Videos of Janelle too (who now lives happily with a good friend) [back to top]
    • Spider & Lugosi R.I.P. Book of MemoriesIn order to deal with my grief over losing my sweet, gentle boy Spider to cancer on 2nd September 2017, I have started a “Book of Memories” as suggested in the very helpful publication “Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers“. This is a creative way to write down all the cute and funny moments that you have of your furbaby, to which you can then come back to in later times/years.  Memories do fade over time, so I started this a few days after his passing while things about him are still very fresh in my mind. It helps work through my feelings of loss over him and turn something so incredibly sad into something beautiful, loving and creative.  I will publish more photos of each page from the book as I go along.  [gallery columns="5" size="medium" link="file" ids="9580,9599,9581,9582,9583,9584,9585,9586,9587,9588,9589,9590,9591,9592,9593,9594,9595,9596,9597"]
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    • SciFi, Horror & Fantasy Conventions/Events
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    • Airplanes & Helicopters
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    • Cemeteries[album id=2 template=compact]
  • Gothic LanzaroteYou might think that a sunny island like Lanzarote (situated HERE in the world) is totally unsuitable for Goths. What have sunshine and beaches to do with Goth, I hear you ask? Well, first of all, deep down most Goths *love* sunshine – meaning that they don’t like to be *in* it because it will damage their gothic pallor, but they love *looking* at it. Secondly, if you hate the beach in the daytime then you visit it at night. You know it’s the Goth thing to do. ;) But to get to the point now, there are actually quite a few things that will attract Goths to this lovely island. The total lack of a Goth Scene is of course not one of them, but while living here I have discovered many things that are very gothic indeed! :) Volcanoes Can you think of a force more beautiful and destructive? These are both qualities that Goths very much live for. Lanzarote is full of volcanoes, although only one is still “smoking” – this one is in the gorgeous Timanfaya National Park and you can actually eat food that has been grilled over the heat of this volcano up there…
    • A Friend’s View of Lanzarote
  • Music Projectsa:link, a:visited, a:active {color:#9E0E11;text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold} a:hover{color:white} p {padding-bottom:20px} h3 {padding-bottom:13px} The following are sound snippets (approx. 2 mins each song) from my old music projects from the early 90s up to around 2003. After that, all my creativity has gone into web design, graphic design and photography, and I haven´t written or recorded anything new since then. Also, sadly, due to bad co-ordination and pain from my illnesses (fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis) I have not been playing or singing live. My music is divided into 3 projects, because the styles are so wildly different, there was no way they would have ever fitted together. The “First” and “Endymion” Projects Under the name “SilkRush” I wrote and recorded the album “First – The Light Side” which contains all my cheerful pop and dance songs (plus some ballads), and “Endymion – The Dark Side” which reveals the darker gothic side of my music – “Shadow Dancers” (Endymion), for example, is a haunting goth piece with Kate Bush-style vocals, whereas “In the Summer Rain” (First) is a beautiful commercial ballad! The “Dominatrix” Project If you are into hardhitting industrial, trance and dark techno sounds then you might prefer this to SilkRush’s more “sane”…
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Category: Janelle

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Janelle making biscuits again

  • 3 May 20123 May 2012
All you need is flooff…
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All you need is flooff…

  • 20 April 2012

Janelle yesterday, playing with the strap of my bag…. she´s all flooff (where´s her head?) LOL 🙂

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Janelle nomming treats

  • 19 April 201219 April 2012

Yummy!

Last Morning of Cat Sitting
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Last Morning of Cat Sitting

  • 3 March 2012

I´m gonna miss you all!  But not to worry, I´ll visit every now and then….. Butt Shot: Squeaky and Janelle Gorgeous Janelle Janelly getting herself covered in planty bits! What…

Janelle & I
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Janelle & I

  • 1 March 2012

Catsitting the beautiful Janelle (and Squeaky and Blacky) at the moment. Here´s a couple of pics from this morning… 🙂

Squeaky & Blacky
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Squeaky & Blacky

  • 29 February 2012

Catsitting Janelle & Co at the moment.  Here´s is the “Co” in “Janelle & Co” – the handsome Squeaky and epileptic kitty Blacky….

  • Catnip
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Janelle gets high on Catnip (again)

  • 18 January 201217 January 2012
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Janelle playing with Laserpointer

  • 31 December 201131 December 2011
Xmas comes early for Janelle
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Xmas comes early for Janelle

  • 17 December 2011

Janelle got her early Christmas prezzie today from Auntie Barbarella!

From the Archives – Janelle Garbo
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From the Archives – Janelle Garbo

  • 6 December 2011

I vant to be aloannnn!

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Janelle, Persian Princess

  • 21 September 201121 September 2011

Being Silly. Being Fierce. Making Biscuits. Enjoy!

Janelle gets a chinny rub
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Janelle gets a chinny rub

  • 16 September 201116 September 2011

Little video from this morning (my mobile video camera isn´t that great, so apologies for the quality!) .And a few piccies sporting her cute lion cut. Look at those fluffy…

Cuddles with Janelle
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Cuddles with Janelle

  • 6 August 20116 August 2011

Had a wonderful cuddle session with Janelle yesterday… 🙂.

Too shy-ee-shy….
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Too shy-ee-shy….

  • 22 May 201122 May 2011

Janelle has just been shaved and the groomer did a really horrible job of it!!! Hence poor Nelly is not granting us full body shots today… (you are still gorgeous,…

Janelle´s Paw Workout No. 2
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Janelle´s Paw Workout No. 2

  • 26 April 201126 April 2011
Fluffytude Galore
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Fluffytude Galore

  • 7 April 20117 April 2011

Janelle is in seriously “full fluff” at the moment – she will be getting shaved for the summer again though! .The “I shall keeel you in your sleep….” look..And the…

And the winners….
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And the winners….

  • 30 March 201130 March 2011

… of the Synchronised Sleeping Competition are: Janelle & Squeaky!(photos courtesy of Anneke Bosma – thanks!).

Über-Fluffy Cat Butt
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Über-Fluffy Cat Butt

  • 14 March 2011

Janelle´s tocks from a not so flattering angle!

Amazing Fluffball with a Head!
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Amazing Fluffball with a Head!

  • 18 February 201118 February 2011

Janelle is in full fluff at the moment – she will probably be shaved again soon, but in the meantime, we´re enjoying her amazing, beautiful, long golden fur……

Janelle playing with Laserpointer
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Janelle playing with Laserpointer

  • 4 February 20114 February 2011

So cute, her dashing around! 🙂

Flower Girl Janelle
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Flower Girl Janelle

  • 6 January 20117 January 2011

Nobody can seeee meee! 🙂 . Oh okay, I´m so beautiful, I actually *want* people to see me! . This plant don´t taste that good…. :/

Nelly Nomming
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Nelly Nomming

  • 30 December 201030 December 2010

Listen to her noisy munching… 🙂

Cats high on Catnip
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Cats high on Catnip

  • 29 December 2010

Some old video footage that I never got round to editing until now, of Lugosi, Spider and Janelle (before she moved over to live with my friend Anneke) getting rat-arsed…

Merry Frickin Xmas
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Merry Frickin Xmas

  • 20 December 20102 January 2011

…says Janelle 😉

Basketcase Nelly
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Basketcase Nelly

  • 28 November 201028 November 2010

It´s my basket, and I cry if I want to…. . Peek-a-Boo! . Mummy Anneke with Janelle (out of the basket, gasp!) . Playful Nelly (back in the basket!) ….

Janelle & the Laserpointer
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Janelle & the Laserpointer

  • 8 November 2010

Mad kitty, watch her dashing around! 🙂

Janelle Visit again
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Janelle Visit again

  • 4 November 2010

Visited my little Janelle today – Photo! 🙂

Nelly visit today
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Nelly visit today

  • 15 October 2010

I will forever miss my little Nelly Bean!  But she´s doing really well at Anneke´s place, bless her. 🙂

Two Cute Janelle (& friends) pics
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Two Cute Janelle (& friends) pics

  • 21 September 201021 September 2010

Forgot to post these last week, when I was looking after Nelly & Co while Anneke was away in Holland (taken with my “secondary” camera, hence the lesser photo quality)….

Sharing has never been one of Janelle´s strong points
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Sharing has never been one of Janelle´s strong points

  • 11 August 201011 August 2010

With temperatures today near 40C, Janelle and Squeaky are trying to find the best spot in the shade… and as long as Squeaky respects Janelle´s personal space, everything is fine!….Janelle´s…

Janelle gets a face rub
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Janelle gets a face rub

  • 26 July 20105 September 2010

Visited my little princess today.  I miss her so much!  But cuddling her made up for it for now…

Who´s the fairest of them all?
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Who´s the fairest of them all?

  • 25 July 201025 July 2010

Janelle is, of course.  🙂

Janelle preventing us from getting any work done
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Janelle preventing us from getting any work done

  • 25 July 20105 September 2010

Distracted by Cute.

Janelle & Friends
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Janelle & Friends

  • 12 June 201012 June 2010

Catsitting Janelle, Squeaky & Blacky at the moment – so here are some piccies! .Peekaboo! .The beautiful, photogenic Squeaky.Pr0n Star Pose.Squeaky & Blacky (Blacky is epileptic and has balance problems,…

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Video: Janelle´s Paw Workout

  • 22 May 201022 May 2010

Janelle in her little pink gym outfit giving us her paw workout.

Janelle
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Janelle

  • 22 May 201022 May 2010

Janelle´s mummy Anneke was away the last few days, so I was looking after her and her coinhabicats Squeaky and Blacky.  Had a little bit of a wild play earlier…

Janelle & I
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Janelle & I

  • 29 April 2010

Saw my Nellybean this afternoon.  I still love her to bits…

Calico Cat Café in Tokyo – Photos & Video
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Calico Cat Café in Tokyo – Photos & Video

  • 16 April 201016 April 2010

While in Tokyo last week, I had to check out a cat café (or two!) while there – you pay for 1/2 hour or an hour (or more), get yourself…

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Janelle gets ready for her World Trip

  • 27 March 2010
Janelle & Squeaky
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Janelle & Squeaky

  • 23 March 201023 March 2010

A rare photo of the two together in peace…

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Whistling to Nelly

  • 16 March 201016 March 2010

Janelle just loves being whistled to… 🙂

More Nelly!
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More Nelly!

  • 15 March 201015 March 2010

More fuzzy mobile phone pics of Nelly… with me!..

New Janelle Pics
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New Janelle Pics

  • 13 March 2010

Photos of Princes Janelle – Enjoy!.Silly pic – check out the little tongue! :p.Posing on the sofa.Nelly outside.The photogenic Squeaky, posing in the garden

Janelle Visit
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Janelle Visit

  • 28 February 201028 February 2010

Visited my sweet Janelle again yesterday.  Here are some pics of her, and her equally stunningly beautiful co-inhabitant Squeaky…….

Janelle Sunday Visit
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Janelle Sunday Visit

  • 1 February 20101 February 2010

I visited Janelle again yesterday – she´s co-inhabiting with a little doggie at the moment, called Feis (see pics below), who Anneke is looking after for a week – and…

Visiting Janelle today…
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Visiting Janelle today…

  • 21 January 201021 January 2010

I miss my little princess so much, even though I know she is in the bestest of hands with Anneke… ….Not Janelle – this is the photogenic, but rather shy…

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Visiting Janelle

  • 14 January 2010

I visited ma bebbee Janelle the other day – this is Anneke (her new mummy) stroking her gently, and Nelly really enjoying it…

Janelle gets dressed up!
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Janelle gets dressed up!

  • 21 November 200921 November 2009

Oh no, she didn´t like wearing that “thing” at first, look at her face in the first pic…. however, she quickly realised that she actually looks very pretty in pink…

Visiting Nelly today
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Visiting Nelly today

  • 18 November 200918 November 2009

… and she gets her favourites: PRAWNS! 😀

Visited Nelly today
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Visited Nelly today

  • 2 November 20092 November 2009

She really loves it at Anneke´s place.  So relaxed, out here on the patio, in her favourite shady spot…. makes me happy to see she is doing so well –…

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