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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"]
  • Blog
  • Photo Gallery
    • Myself & Family
    • The Kitties
    • SciFi, Horror & Fantasy Conventions/Events
    • Bands, Clubs & Music
    • Places I have Been – Holidays
    • Airplanes & Helicopters
    • Fireworks
    • 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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If you´re going to San Francisco…

If you´re going to San Francisco…

  • 13 August 200913 August 2009

make sure to put some flowers in your fur….

Weapons of Mass Destruction!

Weapons of Mass Destruction!

  • 12 August 200912 August 2009

Lugosi: Fear my Clawsies…..

Janelle´s got a talent…

Janelle´s got a talent…

  • 10 August 200910 August 2009

She can do *this* with her tongue:

Met the cutest little ginger fella on my way home tonight…

Met the cutest little ginger fella on my way home tonight…

  • 6 August 20096 August 2009

There´s a feral cat colony in an abandoned, rundown complex near Fariones in Puerto del Carmen, but he was rather friendly for a feral and posed for the camera like…

Brotherly Love

Brotherly Love

  • 5 August 20095 August 2009

Lugosi cleans his twin bro Spider, awwww…..

Shaved Pussy(cat)!  Mini Lion! Hear me ROAR!

Shaved Pussy(cat)! Mini Lion! Hear me ROAR!

  • 3 August 20093 August 2009

Janelle sports the trendy lion cut once again…. ..

Handsome Lugosi

Handsome Lugosi

  • 2 August 20092 August 2009

There.  This is a really nice POSH pose. .But hey! That´s enough!  No more photos!!!!

HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY LUGOSI & SPIDER!!!

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. …

Go Sockington! Socks Army supports you!

Go Sockington! Socks Army supports you!

  • 30 July 200930 July 2009

We support Sockington – going for 1million Twitter followers – Sockamillion – Click for Sockington on Twitter

Scaredy Cat!

Scaredy Cat!

  • 28 July 200928 July 2009

Spider got a fright – check out the bottlebrush tail!

Only Mad Cats and Englishmen?

Only Mad Cats and Englishmen?

  • 27 July 200927 July 2009

It´s 38C/100F in the shade.  And 2 of my 3 cats LOVE it (including fluffy Persian Queen Janelle)! .

Arty Shots of Janelle

Arty Shots of Janelle

  • 26 July 200926 July 2009

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Nom nom nom

Nom nom nom

  • 26 July 200926 July 2009

This bowl is a bit deep for Janelle´s cute, smooshy Persian face, but that doesn´t mean she won´t go all the way to get to the food! .

Breaking News: Princess Janelle in Drugs Scandal

Breaking News: Princess Janelle in Drugs Scandal

  • 22 July 200922 July 2009

It started off with just one little sniff…. But things quickly got out of hand…. …and soon the Princess turned into a wild animal… losing all her inhibitions and making…

Kitties on Holiday

Kitties on Holiday

  • 19 July 200919 July 2009

The beach is only 15 mins away, but these 3 prefer to stay on their balcony, just chillin….

Janelle: I iz da cute

Janelle: I iz da cute

  • 19 July 2009

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Comfy Kitty Posishe

Comfy Kitty Posishe

  • 16 July 200916 July 2009

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Über-Fluffy ´Tocks

Über-Fluffy ´Tocks

  • 15 July 200915 July 2009
The face of your worst nightmares!

The face of your worst nightmares!

  • 12 July 200912 July 2009

Lugosi – guess where he gets the name from?  And…. a face only a mother could love. LOL

Fly Hunting!

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!” 😉

Ouchies!

Ouchies!

  • 12 July 200912 July 2009

Just playing….  😉

I may be be a mature cat at almost 10…

I may be be a mature cat at almost 10…

  • 11 July 200911 July 2009

…. but I iz still cute! 🙂

Lugosi, the King…

Lugosi, the King…

  • 11 July 200911 July 2009

… of the blood red bedroom!

Stacked Cats

Stacked Cats

  • 10 July 200910 July 2009

Who´s the top cat here, ey?

Kitty Exercise

  • 9 July 20099 July 2009

Janelle doing a much better job doing exercise on the mat than myself!

Kitty´s having a laugh!

Kitty´s having a laugh!

  • 9 July 20099 July 2009

Captions please!  I can´t think of any, maybe YOU can? 🙂

If looks could kill…

If looks could kill…

  • 8 July 20098 July 2009

Janelle giving you the evil eye…

Catnip Delivery from the United States has arrived!

  • 7 July 20097 July 2009

Oh man, hey, man… this is really good sh*t.  Thanks so much to findingbl.eu for the prezzies.  You´re the best catnip dealer there is. 😉

Janelle by the pale moonlight…

Janelle by the pale moonlight…

  • 6 July 20096 July 2009
….and stretch-2-3-4….

….and stretch-2-3-4….

  • 4 July 20094 July 2009

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Cheeky Kitten

Cheeky Kitten

  • 1 July 20091 July 2009

Neh neh neh neh neh! *sticks tongue out at camera* 🙂

Janelle´s Ultra-Fluffy Chest

Janelle´s Ultra-Fluffy Chest

  • 1 July 20091 July 2009
Long Cat

Long Cat

  • 29 June 200929 June 2009

Had to take this piccie with the 16:9 (*wide*) setting on the camera to fit the whole of Lugosi into the photo….

The very rare Kangaroo Cat

The very rare Kangaroo Cat

  • 29 June 200929 June 2009

Thought to have possibly been extinct, but spotted this morning in Lanzarote (together with black and white domestic cat). .

Gremlin or Cat???

Gremlin or Cat???

  • 28 June 200928 June 2009

Not quite sure which… probably a hybrid!

Moon Kitty

Moon Kitty

  • 27 June 200927 June 2009

Corky, one of my neighbour´s cats, by the light of the crescent moon tonight….

Cat? Or a very fluffy Prawn?

Cat? Or a very fluffy Prawn?

  • 27 June 200927 June 2009

Lugosi´s best impression of a Prawn. A very fluffy one. With Pointy Ears.

Janelle has a little stretch…

Janelle has a little stretch…

  • 25 June 200925 June 2009
Spider kisses the Princess on her Grassy Throne…

Spider kisses the Princess on her Grassy Throne…

  • 23 June 200923 June 2009

Princess Janelle in one of her rare moments when she allows “commoner” Spider this close!.

Lugosi, the Winged Cat!!!

Lugosi, the Winged Cat!!!

  • 23 June 200923 June 2009
Janelle sleeps in grass pot… video & pics

Janelle sleeps in grass pot… video & pics

  • 22 June 200922 June 2009

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Green Eyes to die for…

Green Eyes to die for…

  • 20 June 200920 June 2009
Yin & Yang Kitties

Yin & Yang Kitties

  • 19 June 200919 June 2009

I am looking after these two while their mummy is on holiday… 🙂

Kitty Bookends!

Kitty Bookends!

  • 17 June 200917 June 2009

A few pics from a couple of years ago of Lugosi & Spider, doing their best Kitty Bookends impression…

Eyes like Saucers!

Eyes like Saucers!

  • 15 June 200915 June 2009

Janelle looking excitedly at birdies on the roof….

Whose Sofa is it Anyway?!

Whose Sofa is it Anyway?!

  • 14 June 200914 June 2009
Gimme Tuna!

Gimme Tuna!

  • 13 June 200913 June 2009

Spider: “Do I smell TUNA?!“ Gimmeeeeeeeee! Num num num num! (That´s “nom nom nom nom” spelled in English rather than American).

In an alternate universe…

In an alternate universe…

  • 12 June 200912 June 2009

Of course, there is the alternate universe version of the previous photo…. 😉

Upside down is the new downside up!

Upside down is the new downside up!

  • 12 June 200912 June 2009
Spider´s Fluffy Paw Beans

Spider´s Fluffy Paw Beans

  • 10 June 200910 June 2009

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