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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
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    • Myself & Family
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    • SciFi, Horror & Fantasy Conventions/Events
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    • 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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Kitty MacGyver – Brilliant!

  • 15 December 200915 December 2009

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today’s Big Thing.

  • Cute
  • Kittens
  • Other Cats
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4 month old Maine Coon Kitten & Mum

  • 14 December 200914 December 2009
Lofty Heights
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  • Ruby

Lofty Heights

  • 13 December 200913 December 2009

Ruby surveying her neighbourhood…

The Boys
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  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Boys

  • 12 December 200913 December 2009

This morning, after the rain….

Ruby´s dainty little orange pawsies
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  • Ruby

Ruby´s dainty little orange pawsies

  • 11 December 200911 December 2009
Ain´t she CUTE!
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  • Ruby

Ain´t she CUTE!

  • 10 December 200910 December 2009

Ruby´s Xmas outfit.  Erm, actually it´s not hers, she just borrowed it from my friend´s Staffordshire Terrier, Daisy – see pic below. 🙂.

Paw on mummy´s leg…
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Paw on mummy´s leg…

  • 10 December 200910 December 2009

Awww.  It´s just the sweetest thing when they put their paw on you.  Makes you feel loved. 🙂

  • Cute
  • Ruby
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Ruby running off with fishing rod toy – CUTE!

  • 8 December 20098 December 2009
Sleepy Girl
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  • Ruby

Sleepy Girl

  • 7 December 20097 December 2009
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  • Ruby
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Noisy Purrz!

  • 6 December 20096 December 2009

Ruby has the noisiest purr you can imagine…

Clean Kitty Ruby
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  • Ruby

Clean Kitty Ruby

  • 6 December 20096 December 2009

Ruby having her morning clean… these photos (and more!) can also be found on Catnip Camera. …

  • Cute
  • Kitty Fight
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Kitty Fight Club: Ruby v. Lugosi

  • 5 December 20095 December 2009

6 month old Ruby wrestling with 10 year old brother Lugosi…

Deadly Cute Head Tilt
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  • Ruby

Deadly Cute Head Tilt

  • 4 December 20094 December 2009

It´s the head tilt that does it every the time… 🙂.And one sans head tilt.  Almost as cute.

My brown-eyed girl….
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  • Ruby

My brown-eyed girl….

  • 3 December 20093 December 2009

Ruby posing for the camera this morning.

Ruby & Spider
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  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
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Ruby & Spider

  • 2 December 20092 December 2009

All peaceful between those two at the mo…. thanks goodness!

Delivery from the Cat Gallery
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Delivery from the Cat Gallery

  • 1 December 2009

Got lots of goodies I ordered for myself for Xmas from The Cat Gallery, but this is the best of all: Purple Kitty Plasters! Now I´m just waiting for the…

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  • Kitty Fight
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Spider
  • Videos

Ruby SchizoKitten

  • 28 November 200928 November 2009
Georgeous Coonies
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Georgeous Coonies

  • 26 November 200926 November 2009

From my photo session this afternoon. Wynona & Comanche.And now the new kittens… first the ginger and the blue girls.… and one of the black boys.and the blue girl on…

Spider´s Latest Sleeping Spot
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  • Spider

Spider´s Latest Sleeping Spot

  • 25 November 200925 November 2009

On top of my dirty clothes!!!

Ruby & Spider waiting for chicken!
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  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Ruby & Spider waiting for chicken!

  • 25 November 200925 November 2009

As a thanks for posing so beautifully, I did give them a few little scraps in the end…. 🙂..

Janelle gets dressed up!
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  • Janelle

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…

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  • Ruby
  • Videos

Starving Kitten Ruby

  • 20 November 200920 November 2009

So cute… 🙂

Found Ruby asleep…
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Found Ruby asleep…

  • 19 November 200919 November 2009

… like this, this afternoon, bless her. 🙂

Straycheeee!
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  • Lugosi

Straycheeee!

  • 18 November 200918 November 2009

Lugosi: “Yes, I´m extremely comfy here, thank you very much”

Visiting Nelly today
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  • Janelle

Visiting Nelly today

  • 18 November 200918 November 2009

… and she gets her favourites: PRAWNS! 😀

Ruby is not impressed, but….
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  • Ruby

Ruby is not impressed, but….

  • 16 November 200916 November 2009

oh, she´s so cute in that!!!  I actually bought this for Persian Princess Janelle (because she is getting shaved again next week), just for a laugh – I know she´d…

Random Sunday Cat Photo Post
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  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Random Sunday Cat Photo Post

  • 15 November 200915 November 2009

ENJOY! 😀.Ruby.Spider.Ruby.Lugosi.Ruby & Lugosi

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UltraCute Ruby….

  • 11 November 200929 November 2009

Accompanying music is an old track I wrote and recorded in the mid 90s, I hope you like it. 🙂

Ruby loves shredding tissue paper…
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Ruby loves shredding tissue paper…

  • 11 November 200911 November 2009

Kill the evil tissue paper, killkillkill! .I´ll eat you alive! .You´re all mineminemine nobody else can save you now!.Oh, but I *am* an innocent kitten, really. 😉

Sleepy Ruby
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Sleepy Ruby

  • 6 November 20096 November 2009

She darn well *knows* she´s cute.  And check out her smiley face in the 3rd pic. 🙂..

Maine Coon Kittens grown bigger!
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Maine Coon Kittens grown bigger!

  • 5 November 20095 November 2009

These are the same kittens as these ones here, but a few weeks on….. I prefer them this size, tbh, they are just more fuzzy and cute and got more…

Tito & Paco
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Tito & Paco

  • 29 October 200929 October 2009

A fellow cat lover, Julie, here in Lanzarote just sent me a pic of her two Burmese boys.  OMG. The CUTE!!! I love those little expressions. 🙂

Ruby posing upside down
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Ruby posing upside down

  • 23 October 200923 October 2009

She knows she´s cute.  And then some..

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  • Ruby
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Kitty Fight: Ruby v. Lugosi

  • 22 October 200922 October 2009

Ruby v. Lugosi: the kitten sure has some mean fighting moves! Watch her as she takes on Lugosi, the chunky big hunk of tabbyness, in this spectacular wrestling match….

Cat in a Bowl
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  • Other Cats

Cat in a Bowl

  • 17 October 200917 October 2009

Felix (my neighbour´s cat) sleeping in a fruit bowl.  Perfectly sized for him of course.  And check out the colour co-ordination all around him to go with his black and…

Look at that SMILE on Ruby´s face!
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  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

Look at that SMILE on Ruby´s face!

  • 8 October 20098 October 2009

I think Lugosi´s in love…. 🙂

My baby whispers in my ear….
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  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

My baby whispers in my ear….

  • 7 October 20097 October 2009

oooooh, sweet nothings…. 😉CAPTIONS WANTED!!!

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  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

Lugosi cleaning Ruby…. listen to her purr!

  • 3 October 20093 October 2009

This is the best thing that could happen – Lugosi actually accepting the new cat in our household.  Watch them here and go awwwww. 🙂

Check out these stripes…
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Check out these stripes…

  • 3 October 20093 October 2009

The cutest stripey leggings in the world

Can´t get enough of Ruby! :D
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Can´t get enough of Ruby! :D

  • 3 October 20093 October 2009

New kitten = Loads of new photos!  I apologise for the Cute Ruby Overload, but hey, she is such a pretty girl! 🙂.The cute little tufts on her ears just…

  • Cute
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  • Videos

Ruby Videos

  • 1 October 20091 October 2009

She is a total little looney.  And all this only 1 day after being spayed, with a scar and stitches on her belly! . .And this is the previous video…

Ruby steals a kiss from Spider
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  • Spider

Ruby steals a kiss from Spider

  • 1 October 20091 October 2009

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First “nice” pics of Ruby
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  • Ruby

First “nice” pics of Ruby

  • 30 September 200930 September 2009

She´s a beauty, alright! 🙂.

Ruby JUMPS – Cute Warning!
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  • Lugosi
  • Ruby

Ruby JUMPS – Cute Warning!

  • 30 September 200930 September 2009

As Lugosi looks at his new little sister, not quite knowing what to make of her just yet…. and how she hasn´t bust any stitches is beyond me (she only…

And now…. Maine Coon Kittens!!!
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And now…. Maine Coon Kittens!!!

  • 27 September 200927 September 2009

Oh the Cute!  I can´t bear it. 🙂..Sadly, this is the runt of the litter – she got sick during her first week and now is behind in development.  However,…

One cute, one silly…
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  • Janelle
  • Silly Pics

One cute, one silly…

  • 22 September 200922 September 2009

Couple of Janelle pics – first cute…..…then silly – just before she made a mad dash past me and the camera….

Must be dead comfy….
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Must be dead comfy….

  • 20 September 200920 September 2009

Lugosi with his beautiful tiger feet stretched out in front, snoozing…. .

Tabby Cat in its Nest
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Tabby Cat in its Nest

  • 18 September 200918 September 2009

Bless him! Spider “built” himself a “nest” with the bed cover again….

Janelle´s new sleeping spot
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  • Janelle

Janelle´s new sleeping spot

  • 16 September 200916 September 2009

Right next to my face when I go to bed.  Bless her. 🙂

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Spider steals himself some chicken!

  • 13 September 200913 September 2009

We had finished our fajitas, but there was some chicken left, so Spider decided he´d steal himself someDon´t worry, the hot plate was cold by then, it was safe for…

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