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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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    • 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

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

Random Thursday Kitty Pic Post

  • 10 May 201210 May 2012

Enjoy! 🙂 Ruby in comfy posishe Ruby ENHANCE pawsies and face!   Lugosi´s taileo   Ruby and Spider on the balcony (Spider doesn´t look happy cause Ruby always bullies him!)…

The Boys
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Boys

  • 24 April 2012

Not that often that we see the Tabby Twins posing together like pros, but when they do, they can pose with the best of them! 

Handsome Boys
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Handsome Boys

  • 25 March 2012

My Tabby Twins Spider … and Lugosi

Sofa Hogging!
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Sofa Hogging!

  • 19 February 2012

I think I need a sofa especially for *me* to sit on!

  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Tabby Twins in HD

  • 13 February 2012

Filmed with new Samsung Q10 videocamera.

Brothers Pre-Fight
  • Kitty Fight
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Brothers Pre-Fight

  • 6 February 2012

This is what Spider does when he´s had enough of Lugosi washing him, seconds before it turns into a fight!

Random Thursday Kitty Post
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Random Thursday Kitty Post

  • 19 January 2012

Just some random piccies I took the last few days of my 3 terrors…. Ruby snuggling up to her big bro Lugosi The Boys: Spider (left) & Lugosi Ruby watching…

Happy New Year from Lugosi & Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Happy New Year from Lugosi & Spider

  • 1 January 2012

…. and from Ruby under the bed (she´s so scared of the fireworks!)

  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Lugosi & Spider: Laserpointer Fun

  • 18 December 2011
Erm, guys….?
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Erm, guys….?

  • 15 November 2011

I don´t sit on *your* toilet, do I?!

  • Kitty Fight
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Kitty Fight Club: Spider v. Lugosi

  • 5 November 2011

Spider wins!

Lugosi & Spider Fridge Magnet!
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Lugosi & Spider Fridge Magnet!

  • 21 October 201121 October 2011

Found this cute little fridge magnet in an arty shop the other day and look!!! It´s Lugosi and Spider! I mean, totally!  So I just *had* to buy it of…

So I come home and find this….
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

So I come home and find this….

  • 6 September 20116 September 2011

Lazy sods!  While I (servant!) clean and fill up their bowls, hoover their beds, change the kitty litter, etc. etc…. :O

Wide Angle Twins
  • Spider & Lugosi

Wide Angle Twins

  • 29 August 201129 August 2011

Lugosi (left) and Spider – can´t quite tell where one cat starts and the other ends…. (click on pic to see full glory 1000px wide photo)

The Fur Flies!
  • Kitty Fight
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Fur Flies!

  • 19 July 201119 July 2011

Lugosi and Spider having another brotherly tiff.  This one got quite serious (look at the fur in Lugosi´s mouth and on the floor)!  But Boys will be Boys, ey?!.ENHANCE!

Random Friday Kitty Post
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Other Cats
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Random Friday Kitty Post

  • 17 June 2011

Here are some pics I didn´t get round to posting before… Bella, a cat from our street, climbing a palm tree (she is a bit mad!)..I think I need to…

Blissful Synchronised Sleepinks
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Blissful Synchronised Sleepinks

  • 16 June 201116 June 2011
Bungee Cat
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Bungee Cat

  • 17 May 201117 May 2011

Spider to Lugosi: “Don´t forget the rope, you idiot!”

Catnip Closeups
  • Catnip
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Catnip Closeups

  • 3 March 20113 March 2011
Cat Yoga
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Cat Yoga

  • 18 January 201118 January 2011

Lugosi: “Can´t I just do my Yoga in peace without that camera in my face?!”(while Spider snoozes in the background)

The Twins
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Twins

  • 8 January 20119 January 2011

Tabby Twins Lugosi & Spider……

Breakfast Time!
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider & Lugosi with Janelle

Breakfast Time!

  • 28 December 20102 January 2011

I prepare the table for breakfast for Mum, her partner and my grandad, and look who gets all the best chairs!

Merry Xmas from the Von Fluffensteins
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Merry Xmas from the Von Fluffensteins

  • 24 December 20102 January 2011
Two Cats on a Table…
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Two Cats on a Table…

  • 31 October 201031 October 2010

…are worth a million in your heart! 🙂.

Tabby Twins
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Tabby Twins

  • 6 October 20106 October 2010

Spider (right) & Lugosi

Random Sunday Kitty Pic Post
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Random Sunday Kitty Pic Post

  • 29 August 201029 August 2010

A selection of recent photos of the terrible threesome……Spider & Lugosi (right) flaked out on the sofa.Pretty Ruby posing.Spider on the bed.The terrible threesome.The terrible threesome.Ruby silhouette on the balcony.Such…

Dramatic Dead Cats
  • Spider & Lugosi

Dramatic Dead Cats

  • 15 August 201015 August 2010

I guess the heat the other day called for Spider and Lugosi throwing themselves into dramatic, death-like poses…….

No! We do NOT want birthday snorgles!
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

No! We do NOT want birthday snorgles!

  • 31 July 201031 July 2010

Lugosi & Spider: “Help!  The human is going to snorgle us!”Ok, ok, boys.  No more snorgles from mummy. But HAPPY 11th BIRTHDAY to both of ya! .Lugosi getting snorgled by…

Ikea Cats
  • Cute
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Ikea Cats

  • 28 June 201028 June 2010

Got this great new shelf unit from Ikea the other day, and don´t the kitties look just purrfect posing in it? 🙂….

Tabby Twins under the Pale Moonlight
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Tabby Twins under the Pale Moonlight

  • 24 June 201024 June 2010

Caught the moon there just before it disappeared behind the clouds!…

My Handsome Boys
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

My Handsome Boys

  • 23 June 201023 June 2010

Lugosi = Kitty Pr0n! .More Kitty Pr0n!.Pretty Boy Spider.

The Boys
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Boys

  • 4 June 2010

Hello Ladeeeez….

Random Saturday Kitty Pic Post – ENJOY!
  • Cute
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Random Saturday Kitty Pic Post – ENJOY!

  • 22 May 2010

Lugosi Close-Up.Ruby to Lugosi: “Gissa Kiss!” 🙂.Ruby: “Who´s that cat???”.Ruby: “Oh, it´s only silly old me…”.Spider: “Does my bum look big like this?”.Lugosi´s Cute Pose.3 kitties lazing on a hot…

New Pawtraits of Lugosi & Spider
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

New Pawtraits of Lugosi & Spider

  • 24 April 201024 April 2010

Just some nice, new photos of the boys for ya……….

Random Friday Kitty Post
  • Cute
  • Lugosi
  • Paws
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Random Friday Kitty Post

  • 2 April 20102 April 2010

Pics of the terrible 3some… starting with Lugosi..Talk to the Paw!.Spider & Lugosi back to back, like a mirror!.Sphinx Ruby.Ruby blending in with her surroundings.Lugosi doing his best Pr0nstar pose…..Ruby…

Random Thursday Kitty Pic Post
  • Cute
  • Lugosi
  • Other Cats
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Random Thursday Kitty Pic Post

  • 25 February 201025 February 2010

A few pics that made it onto my Twitpic account, but not here: Polly (neighbour´s cat) “helping” me with some computer work….Kitties at the Natura Palace Hotel in Playa Blanca…

EEK!
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

EEK!

  • 20 February 2010

Spider says “Eek”! (Or maybe “geek”)  😉

A very grey morning
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

A very grey morning

  • 3 February 20103 February 2010

The terrible threesome this morning

Fly Hunting
  • Ruby
  • Spider & Lugosi

Fly Hunting

  • 14 January 201014 January 2010

“Wait, where´s it gone?”.“Hah! I see you!”.“Now you´re dead meat, muhahah!”

Random Boxing Day Kitty Pic Post
  • Cute
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Random Boxing Day Kitty Pic Post

  • 26 December 200926 December 2009

Hope you´re all having a great Crimbo.  Here´s some random cute pics for you to enjoy of my Terrible Threesome. 🙂.Lugosi & Ruby.Basket Case Spider (I love the way his…

The Boys
  • Cute
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Boys

  • 12 December 200913 December 2009

This morning, after the rain….

  • Cute
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Kitty Playtime!

  • 17 September 200917 September 2009

Playing with Spider & Lugosi, throwing one of their favourite toys (a rustly, foil paper ball) and watching them jump after it madly!

Lugosi is much better now
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Lugosi is much better now

  • 15 September 200915 September 2009

As you can see, he´s his usual, bully-self again.  Here he is (on top!) wrestling with his brother Spider.

Night Cats
  • Spider & Lugosi

Night Cats

  • 13 September 200913 September 2009

Spider (left) and Lugosi surveying their ´hood late at night….

Twins Lugosi & Spider
  • Cute
  • Spider & Lugosi

Twins Lugosi & Spider

  • 27 August 200927 August 2009

Just a sweet piccie of the boys on the sofa this afternoon….

Mirror Cats: Synchronised Sleeping
  • Cute
  • Spider & Lugosi

Mirror Cats: Synchronised Sleeping

  • 15 August 200915 August 2009

Lugosi (left) & Spider….

If you´re going to San Francisco…
  • Spider & Lugosi

If you´re going to San Francisco…

  • 13 August 200913 August 2009

make sure to put some flowers in your fur….

Brotherly Love
  • Cute
  • Spider & Lugosi

Brotherly Love

  • 5 August 20095 August 2009

Lugosi cleans his twin bro Spider, awwww…..

HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY LUGOSI & SPIDER!!!
  • Spider & Lugosi

HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY LUGOSI & SPIDER!!!

  • 31 July 200931 July 2009

Mummy loves you lots!  Even though Lugosi is on a lifelong special diet for his feline urinary syndrome, on this special day he is allowed a small tin of tuna. …

Fly Hunting!
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Fly Hunting!

  • 12 July 200912 July 2009

Lugosi and Spider on the prowl after that fly…..Lugosi: “I got it I got it!!!!”.Spider: “No you don´t!” 😉

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