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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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Found Ruby asleep…
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  • Paws
  • Ruby

Found Ruby asleep…

  • 19 November 200919 November 2009

… like this, this afternoon, bless her. 🙂

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

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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  • Ruby

Sleepy Ruby

  • 6 November 20096 November 2009

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

  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
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Cats and a Laser Pointer

  • 3 November 20093 November 2009

Ruby and Lugosi chasing the little red dot… endless fun. 🙂

Photographic Shadow Play with Ruby
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  • Ruby

Photographic Shadow Play with Ruby

  • 3 November 20093 November 2009

Some pics experimenting with sunlight/shadows. And Ruby. 🙂….

Ruby Snorgles
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  • Ruby

Ruby Snorgles

  • 2 November 2009

Ruby-Kitten getting mummy snorgles…. 🙂

Kitten Attack!
  • Kitty Fight
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

Kitten Attack!

  • 25 October 200925 October 2009

Ruby v. Lugosi again…

Ruby posing upside down
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  • Ruby

Ruby posing upside down

  • 23 October 200923 October 2009

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

  • Kitty Fight
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
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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….

Wet Pussy! ;)
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Wet Pussy! ;)

  • 20 October 200920 October 2009

Ruby loves playing in the sink trying to catch the water drops, but all she does is get herself all wet! 🙂.

New Carrier Bag for Ruby
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New Carrier Bag for Ruby

  • 15 October 200915 October 2009

Got a nice new cat carrier for Ruby today – aren´t those things expensive for what they are – this one was 35€! It´s a nice colour to go with…

Girl v. Boy Kitty Fight
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  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Girl v. Boy Kitty Fight

  • 13 October 200913 October 2009

Ruby has been busy studying martial arts on the internetz, but she found that she´s actually quite the natural!  Here she is with Spider in a spectacular wrestling match… 😉..……

Kitty Neighbourhood Watch
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Kitty Neighbourhood Watch

  • 11 October 200911 October 2009

Spider & Ruby surveying their ´hood….

Ruby´s Pinkies
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  • Ruby

Ruby´s Pinkies

  • 9 October 20099 October 2009

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

Look at that SMILE on Ruby´s face!

  • 8 October 20098 October 2009

I think Lugosi´s in love…. 🙂

Ruby Playing
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  • Ruby

Ruby Playing

  • 8 October 20098 October 2009

Ruby: “Oh wow, mum, LOOK!  I found a piece of fluff!” 🙂

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!!!

An Unholy Trinity…
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  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

An Unholy Trinity…

  • 6 October 2009

Spider (left), Ruby-Kitten and Lugosi 🙂

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  • 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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  • Paws
  • Ruby

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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  • Ruby

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…

Spider & Lugosi….. and then Ruby!
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  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

Spider & Lugosi….. and then Ruby!

  • 2 October 20092 October 2009

I was taking photos of Spider (left) and Lugosi………when Ruby cheekily jumped into the photo, posing prettily! 🙂(the scar on her belly is from being spayed on Tuesday)

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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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  • Ruby
  • 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…

Meet …. Ruby!
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  • Ruby

Meet …. Ruby!

  • 29 September 200929 September 2009

The first pics of Ruby Akasha, our new girl.  She´s 4 months old and has just been spayed, so she still looks very dopey in the pics.  See second photo…

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