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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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When you gotta go…
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics

When you gotta go…

  • 16 August 2018

Obviously, Lugosi has read the sign and it says nothing about cats, only dogs…. so there! 

  • Barbarella
  • Instagram
  • Lugosi
  • Paws
  • Videos

Time for a Pawdicure – Lugosi throws a Tantrum

  • 29 May 201813 May 2018

Lugosi never liked having his clawsies trimmed. See it and believe it.  😆    Did you watch the previous video of Ruby getting her claws trimmed? Well, here’s Lugosi, who…

Family Photo Fail!
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby & Lugosi

Family Photo Fail!

  • 1 May 201813 May 2018

Can’t say I didn’t try… 😉

  • Lugosi
  • Videos

Lugosi follows Meatballs across the Floor

  • 21 February 2018

This is one of his favourite games. Note: this video is from about a year ago when Spider was still alive (see him at the beginning of the video).

The Mad Cat Lady and Oriana Curls go Gaga!
  • Barbarella
  • Cat Stuff
  • Instagram
  • Miscellaneous
  • Videos

The Mad Cat Lady and Oriana Curls go Gaga!

  • 13 January 201815 January 2018

I had the pleasure of meeting the super talented singer/songwriter/model Oriana Curls, who came to visit Lanzarote earlier this week, and spending two fun-filled days with her. As you can…

Cat & Dog Humour – Bruce Robinson
  • Miscellaneous
  • Other Cats
  • Silly Pics

Cat & Dog Humour – Bruce Robinson

  • 15 May 2017

I absolutely love this! 😀  For more of Bruce’s hilarious cat and dog cartoons, go and visit his website or Facebook page. 

Ok then. Who farted?!
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Ok then. Who farted?!

  • 18 April 201717 April 2017

Lugosi! It was you!!!! Pooo-eeeee, that really pongs! Ruby & Spider hide their noses behind their paws…. 

The Morning After The Night Before…
  • Catnip
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics

The Morning After The Night Before…

  • 30 March 201724 March 2017

Lugosi: “Awww crap. I am getting too old for this. I really gotta lay off the ´nip!” *sigh*

Excuse Me! Cats Do Not Eat Veggie Burgers!
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Excuse Me! Cats Do Not Eat Veggie Burgers!

  • 27 March 201724 March 2017

So mummy goes to a food festival and she brings us back…. a vegetarian burger? WTF?! Bad Mummy! 🙁

Ruby bites her Grooming Brush
  • Ruby
  • Videos

Ruby bites her Grooming Brush

  • 13 March 201710 March 2017

Ruby loves being brushed, but she just can’t help eating the brush! LOL

Don’t have a Christmas Tree? Decorate a Cat instead!
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Don’t have a Christmas Tree? Decorate a Cat instead!

  • 23 November 2016

Disclaimer: when attempting this with your cat, caution is advised, as some cats may not take lightly to being treated like a Christmas tree, and any resulting injuries are completely…

Hoverboarding with Ruby
  • Ruby

Hoverboarding with Ruby

  • 9 November 20166 November 2016

Ruby is at it again. She just loves that hoverboard! 😀

Cat Yoga with Spider
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Cat Yoga with Spider

  • 6 November 2016

Spider is a very keen Yoga practitioner. However, I think he still needs to work on his technique just a wee bit… 

Ruby Goes Back To The Future
  • Ruby

Ruby Goes Back To The Future

  • 14 July 201614 July 2016

Ruby on her hoverboard… 

Time For Some Silly Cat Pics – Silly Hats Edition
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Time For Some Silly Cat Pics – Silly Hats Edition

  • 11 December 2015

Starting off with Lugosi… (with his “I shall kill you in your sleep for this” expression) Lugosi with a different kind of hat…  Ruby with a pretty star hat…  And…

Lugosi Practises For Christmas
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics

Lugosi Practises For Christmas

  • 2 December 20151 December 2015

  Lugosi is practising for Christmas ? ❄⛄ #cats #tabbies #tabbycats #gatos #katzen #neko #ilovecats #kitties #cute #pets #animals #catstagram #catsofinstagram #catlover #catsoflanzarote #Christmas #christmaslights #silly A video posted by…

Pokemon Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Pokemon Cats

  • 28 October 201526 October 2015

Team Rocket! Jesse! James! And Meowth, that’s right!

  • Spider
  • Videos

Spider plays with his tent

  • 31 August 201530 August 2015

Spider, you´re supposed to get *in* the tent, not *on* it! 😉

Lugosi v. Dali
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics

Lugosi v. Dali

  • 28 August 201526 August 2015

Lugosi’s favourite painter is Salvador Dali, so naturally he twirls his whiskers to match the maestro’s moustache… 

Lugosi’s Impression of Lil Bub
  • Lugosi
  • Videos

Lugosi’s Impression of Lil Bub

  • 23 August 201522 August 2015

That’s a pretty good impression, isn’t it? 🙂 The Real Lil Bub… 

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

Hunting Flies!

  • 11 August 2015

A couple of funny pics of Lugosi and Spider jumping to catch a fly… 🙂 No brother… THIS is how it´s done! 

Sausage Cat
  • Ruby
  • Silly Pics

Sausage Cat

  • 28 July 2015

You all heard about sausage dogs (Dachshund), but there are also sausage cats! Or at least Ruby does a rather good impression of one. 

Return of the Living Dead Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Return of the Living Dead Cats

  • 18 July 201514 July 2015

Is is International Zombie Cat Day yet?  Lugosi and Spider practising how to play dead…  Spider to Lugosi: “Hey! You moved! Dead cats don´t move! You´re so crap at this…

The Shoe Fits!
  • Other Cats
  • Paws
  • Silly Pics

The Shoe Fits!

  • 16 July 201514 July 2015

Or maybe it´s just a wee bit too big for my little paw? Sneaky, one of my friend´s friendly ferals who lives on her terrace…

Driller Cat
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Driller Cat

  • 12 June 2015

Spider attempts to drill to the centre of the Earth using only his head!

Yep. It´th one of thothe dayth…
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Yep. It´th one of thothe dayth…

  • 11 June 2015

… where a cat thimply forgeth to putsth hith tongue back in…

Cherry Boy Lugosi
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics

Cherry Boy Lugosi

  • 29 May 201528 May 2015

Lugosi: “I shall kill you in your sleep for this…”

Where´s my TV dinner?
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Where´s my TV dinner?

  • 10 May 20159 May 2015

Spider: “Where´s my TV dinner, hoomin? I wantz it, like, neow!”

  • Ruby

Ruby gives us the finger…

  • 6 May 20153 May 2015

Teenagers, ey? Can´t take them anywhere…

Lugosi Living on the Edge
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics

Lugosi Living on the Edge

  • 28 March 2015

Lugosi feels that living (or even *sleeping*) on the edge gives life a little bit of spice…

Laser Eyes!
  • Ruby
  • Silly Pics

Laser Eyes!

  • 6 March 20155 March 2015

Ruby last night, lighting up the whole alley with her laser eyes…

  • Barbarella
  • Other Cats
  • Videos

Want clean floors? Use a cat!

  • 7 February 20156 February 2015

Buster (the neighbours´ cat) demonstrates that all it takes for squeaky clean floors is… a cat!And a human´s foot attached to the cat, for that matter…

Catty Expressions
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Catty Expressions

  • 23 January 2015

What are Ruby (left) and Spider sniffing / seeing / thinking? Leave your caption ideas in the comments…

I swear it was THIS big!
  • Other Cats

I swear it was THIS big!

  • 3 January 20152 January 2015

Squeaky, one of my friend´s cats, swears the fish was that big. Honest. 

New Year´s Greetings from Janelle
  • Janelle
  • Silly Pics

New Year´s Greetings from Janelle

  • 1 January 2015

Or maybe not. Nelly thinks: “OMG. Not *another* year.”

Purdy SpiderCat
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Purdy SpiderCat

  • 16 November 201415 November 2014
Ruby haz Cattitude
  • Ruby
  • Silly Pics

Ruby haz Cattitude

  • 2 November 20141 November 2014
Lugosi. Saving the Universe, one scrunchy at a time…
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics

Lugosi. Saving the Universe, one scrunchy at a time…

  • 8 June 20147 June 2014

Help me Obi Wan Catnobi. You´re my only hope!

To the principal´s office. Right now!
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics

To the principal´s office. Right now!

  • 24 April 201421 April 2014
Not sure this jumper fits me!
  • Ruby
  • Silly Pics

Not sure this jumper fits me!

  • 21 April 201421 April 2014

Spot the cat!

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

The Cat in the Bag! Hilarious Video of Spider & Ruby

  • 29 January 201428 January 2014

I LOL´d. And so will you!

Cat levitates other Cat
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Cat levitates other Cat

  • 12 December 20139 December 2013

Ruby´s attempt of making her bro Spider levitate….

Spider – the morning after….
  • Spider

Spider – the morning after….

  • 20 November 2013

Must have been such a hard night for boy Spider. I am doing this on purpose. Honest. I iz cute! Ok, that´s enough now with that camera!

  • Janelle
  • Videos

Janelle makes hilarious sounds – Nom nom nom!

  • 28 September 201328 September 2013

Make sure you have your sound turned up to hear her silly growlings! 😉

Lugosi…
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics

Lugosi…

  • 25 August 2013

… the one-eared vampire cat! 

Golden Girl Janelle (and her friend Squeaky)
  • Janelle
  • Other Cats

Golden Girl Janelle (and her friend Squeaky)

  • 23 August 201323 August 2013

She is positively glowing in the sunshine!  Oh, hello there!   Janelle to Squeaky: “What the hell are you doing, you silly goofball?!”  

Ruby being a Goofball!
  • Ruby
  • Silly Pics

Ruby being a Goofball!

  • 8 August 20137 August 2013

Silly kitty. 

What the hell IS this?!
  • Lugosi
  • Silly Pics

What the hell IS this?!

  • 15 July 2013

Lugosi is not impressed…. 

Lugosi practises for the next zombie walk.
  • Lugosi

Lugosi practises for the next zombie walk.

  • 21 January 2013

Spazzy Paws! 

3 legged Spider!
  • Outdoors
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

3 legged Spider!

  • 8 January 20138 January 2013

Spider appears to have lost a leg! 

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