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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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    • 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: Spider & Lugosi

Behold the Amazing One-Eared Cat!
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Behold the Amazing One-Eared Cat!

  • 1 March 201528 February 2015

Uhm, sorry bro, but I have to put it to you… you appear to have lost an ear!

Gimme!!!
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Gimme!!!

  • 2 February 2015

They do love those stick treats… 🙂

The Kray Tabby Twins
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Kray Tabby Twins

  • 29 January 2015

My boys are so much cuter though! 😉

  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Radio Interview with CJAD Montreal

  • 14 January 2015

More fame for me and my kattens! Here´s a recording of the short interview I just did with Barry Morgan on this Canadian radio station… 🙂 Share Music – Embed…

Finally, he truth and nothing but the truth about marrying my cats….
  • 3 Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Finally, he truth and nothing but the truth about marrying my cats….

  • 13 January 201512 January 2015

The Huffington Post interviewed me the other day after seeing the article about having married my cats in the British press, and in that interview I got the chance in…

Happy 11th Anniversary to my Boys!
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Happy 11th Anniversary to my Boys!

  • 9 January 20159 January 2015

To my sweet boys, Lugosi & Spider: I still love you as much, if not more, as on the first day we met back in March 2000. And your purrs…

  • Barbarella
  • Cat Stuff
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

I married my cats – in the British press again!

  • 7 January 20157 January 2015

We are getting more and more famous! 🙂 Click here to read this wonderful article in the Daily Mail Online yesterday… 

Brotherly Tiff
  • Kitty Fight
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Brotherly Tiff

  • 28 December 201428 December 2014

Lugosi to Spider: “You shall not pass!”

Catty Photo Session
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Catty Photo Session

  • 26 December 201427 December 2014

Here are a couple more photos from the photo shoot back in November that they did for the article that was in THE SUN the other day….

Fame at last: I married my Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Fame at last: I married my Cats

  • 24 December 201424 December 2014

On 4th November this year UK journalist Pesala, together with photographer Matt from News Dog Media, came over to Lanzarote to do an interview and photoshoot with me and the…

Alley Cats
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Alley Cats

  • 17 November 201415 November 2014

Some random piccies from our supervised kitty outings…. The Boys Ruby behind bars! How am I going to get out of this prison?! Hey, I´m a cat. Tis easy!

Sandwiched by the boys!
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Sandwiched by the boys!

  • 29 September 201428 September 2014

Lugosi (left) and Spider with mummy in the middle last night…

  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Lugosi & Spider´s 15th Birthday Party Video!

  • 31 July 2014

Catnip, Tuna, King Prawns…. and extra cuddles and brushings. What more can an old git of a cat ask for? It´s the first time I tried to shoot a video using…

Ruby finds two Dead Cats outside our house….
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Ruby finds two Dead Cats outside our house….

  • 30 June 201430 June 2014

Hello? Help? I need a hand here to move the bodies!

Double Trouble!
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Double Trouble!

  • 28 June 2014

Lugosi (front) and his twin Spider, waiting for treats to fly into their moufs!

My two bookends…
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

My two bookends…

  • 7 April 2014

Spider (left) and his twin bro Lugosi…

The Boys Chillaxing….
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Boys Chillaxing….

  • 18 February 201416 February 2014

A lazy evening in (are there any other kinds of evenings?!) for Spider and Lugosi…

Supervised Outdoors for Indoor Kitties
  • Barbarella
  • Catster
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Supervised Outdoors for Indoor Kitties

  • 3 February 20143 February 2014

I hope you enjoy my latest article on Catster – it´s about how I take my 3 rascals out twice a day on supervised kitty outings…. CLICK HERE to Read…

Happy Anniversary, Boys!
  • Barbarella
  • Catster
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Happy Anniversary, Boys!

  • 11 January 20143 February 2014

10 years married to my beautiful tabby boys and the loves of my life – they don´t call me The Mad Cat Lady for nothing. 😉 (sorry, didn´t get the…

My boys and I….
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

My boys and I….

  • 20 December 2013

I love them to bits (but Ruby too, of course!). My boy Lugosi My boy Spider

Bed Hogging
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Bed Hogging

  • 11 December 2013

Guess who´s sleeping at the bottom of the bed tonight…. *sigh*

Lugosi sees a ghost!
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Lugosi sees a ghost!

  • 29 September 20133 October 2013

“I see dead people cats….. awww no, it´s just my bro Spider, moving at super speed!

Leopard Tabbies
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Leopard Tabbies

  • 10 September 2013

It´s all about blending in, y´know? We can try, at least. 😉

Life on the other side of the fence….
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Life on the other side of the fence….

  • 7 August 2013

Gotta see life from *both* sides of the fence!  Spider (left) and Lugosi (right). 

14th Birthday Video & Piccies
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

14th Birthday Video & Piccies

  • 31 July 201331 July 2013

Prezzie from mummy – looks just like *us*! 😀

HAPPY 14th BIRTHDAY to Lugosi & Spider
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Spider & Lugosi

HAPPY 14th BIRTHDAY to Lugosi & Spider

  • 31 July 201324 July 2013

Feels like a lifetime since the day I adopted my boys back in March 2000 (they were 8 months old then).   14 today and still going strong!  Love you…

Too hot out there…
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Too hot out there…

  • 3 July 20132 July 2013

Tabby bros Spider (left) and Lugosi chilling at the top of the stairs on a hot summer´s day.

Kitties Galore
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Other Cats
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Kitties Galore

  • 24 April 2013

Spider, Lugosi and Ruby meet up with their mates Crispy and Tilly….

Tabby Twins
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Tabby Twins

  • 23 April 201321 April 2013

Lugosi (front) and his twin bro Spider at the bottom of the stairs…

Lugosi wears Spider
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Lugosi wears Spider

  • 30 March 2013

Check out Lugosi´s new look – *wearing* his brother´s tail!

The Boys: Closeup
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Boys: Closeup

  • 13 February 201313 February 2013

Spider Lugosi  

Merry Christmas from The Mad Cat Lady & Kitties
  • 3 Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Merry Christmas from The Mad Cat Lady & Kitties

  • 22 December 2012
Brotherly Love
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Brotherly Love

  • 18 December 201217 December 2012

Lugosi washing his bro Spider this morning…  awwwwww!

Saturday Night In with the Boys
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Saturday Night In with the Boys

  • 15 December 2012

And beer…. 

Great New Pics of The Boys
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Great New Pics of The Boys

  • 23 November 201218 November 2012

Spider and Lugosi rolling around in the alley outside… Closeup – Spider (front) and his bro Lugosi   And outside again… tabby twins.   Mirrored Tabbies…

  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Spider & Lugosi chasing insects outside

  • 22 October 201220 October 2012
Playful Old Cat
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Playful Old Cat

  • 13 October 201212 October 2012

Spider chasing Bouganvillea petals this afternoon (with Lugosi lazily looking on).  He´s still so playful with his 13 years!

More “Outing for Indoor Kitties” Pics
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

More “Outing for Indoor Kitties” Pics

  • 1 October 201230 September 2012

Another outing they enjoyed – we´re doing this once or twice every day now. 🙂 Spider and Ruby Ruby shares a secret with Lugosi Mirror Cats (Ruby and Lugosi) Spider…

The Boys
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Boys

  • 23 September 201223 September 2012

…enjoying their daily outing… (and Ruby is there somewhere too, of course)

The best way to wake up….
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The best way to wake up….

  • 21 September 201220 September 2012

… flanked by “ma boys”. 😀

Indoor Kitties go Outside!
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Indoor Kitties go Outside!

  • 10 September 201220 September 2012

This is going to be a daily thing from now on – they are really enjoying their semi-freedom!  >> Click for more photos of yesterday´s outing on Flickr <<

Mutual Slurpinks
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Mutual Slurpinks

  • 5 September 20121 September 2012

Spider slurping Lugosi (photo taken with cross-filter effect on my Samsung WB150F camera) Lugosi slurping Spider

The Boys
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Boys

  • 11 August 2012

Recent pic of Spider (left) and his twin bro Lugosi…

Lugosi & Spider in London
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Lugosi & Spider in London

  • 5 August 2012

Very cute, old piccie from back in London, when Spider & Lugosi were about 1 year old (in around 2000), doing their kitty neighbourhood watch thing…. 

  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

13th Birthday Tuna

  • 31 July 201231 July 2012

No no!!! Stop singing, mummy! Nooooo! 😉

Happy 13th Birthday Boys
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Happy 13th Birthday Boys

  • 31 July 2012

13 years old and still going strong.  Sadly, Spider has to go to the vets (for a dental clean) today on his birthday though….  Both boys are happily accepting birthday…

Random Saturday Kitty Post
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Paws
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Random Saturday Kitty Post

  • 21 July 2012

Yes, there IS enough space on the bed for 3 cats and myself….  Lugosi on the high shelf Ruby in cute sleeping posishe Ruby Face & Paws ENHANCE!   Ruby…

Operation: Occupy Sofa
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Operation: Occupy Sofa

  • 11 July 2012

Remind me to get a new sofa so *I* can sit somewhere too. 

Who, me?!
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Who, me?!

  • 5 July 2012

Lugosi doing his best “baroo” expression…

Random Kitty Pix
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Random Kitty Pix

  • 18 June 201218 June 2012

Been too busy to update, but we can´t let our kitty pic fans go totally tee-total, can we?! So here you go with a few Spider, Ruby and Lugosi photos…

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