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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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Shot in a Million!
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Shot in a Million!

  • 15 June 201610 June 2016

Great Pose, Guys! You’re amazing. 🙂

Pretty Kitty Earsies!
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby & Lugosi

Pretty Kitty Earsies!

  • 28 April 20161 April 2016

Lugosi and Ruby…  P

Whaddayawant bro?
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Whaddayawant bro?

  • 24 April 20161 April 2016

Lugosi doesn’t agree with Spider’s idea of what good quality catnip means!

Triple Trouble…
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Triple Trouble…

  • 21 February 2016

Or Triple Sweetness? 🙂

SuperPhoto Kitties
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

SuperPhoto Kitties

  • 25 January 201623 January 2016

Play around with the SuperPhoto App on your mobile, and you can come up with something as stunning looking as this! 🙂

3 Kitty Rascals
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

3 Kitty Rascals

  • 26 November 201524 November 2015

It’s not easy to get a photo of all 3 cats sitting so close together *and* posing too! So I’m really pleased to have got these fantastic shots the other…

Who goes there?
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Who goes there?

  • 5 July 2015

The boys out on the stairs, always vigilant!

The Boys: Day and Night
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Boys: Day and Night

  • 21 May 201521 May 2015

Spider (front) and Lugosi during the day… Spider (right) and Lugosi at night… And the Boys with Ruby! 

Gentle Kitty Moments
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Gentle Kitty Moments

  • 20 April 201519 April 2015

A sweet moment between Spider and Ruby…

Bird´s Eye Kitty View
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Bird´s Eye Kitty View

  • 12 April 2015

A bird´s eye view of my 3 rascals….

The Girl Can Fight!
  • 3 Cats
  • Kitty Fight
  • Lugosi
  • Other Cats
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

The Girl Can Fight!

  • 2 March 20152 March 2015

Ruby shows off her martial arts skills, while Lugosi and Spider look on, as if it´s a movie… the other ginger cat in the window is called Fiorello, and the tabby…

Lugosi and the Ladybird
  • Lugosi

Lugosi and the Ladybird

  • 28 February 2015

Sounds almost like “Beauty and the Beast”. 😉 Because they produce a foul tasting yellow liquid when in danger, is probably the reason why my cats don´t eat them!

Trouble Times Three. Or is it Four?
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Other Cats
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Trouble Times Three. Or is it Four?

  • 21 February 2015

Buster from next door joins the kitty club to make it Trouble Times Four! 

The Ginger Parade
  • Other Cats
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby

The Ginger Parade

  • 3 February 20152 February 2015

Back of the head shots of Ruby and her new friend Buster (from next door)…

Ruby has been cloned!
  • Lugosi
  • Other Cats
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Ruby has been cloned!

  • 1 February 201531 January 2015

Spider (left), Lugosi (yawning), Ruby at the top of the stairs and…. Buster! Buster, our neighbours´ ginger tom is only 8 months old, but he´s already huge as you can…

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…

Brotherly Tiff
  • Kitty Fight
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Brotherly Tiff

  • 28 December 201428 December 2014

Lugosi to Spider: “You shall not pass!”

DIY Kitty Project: Senior Cat Steps
  • Catster
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous

DIY Kitty Project: Senior Cat Steps

  • 8 December 20147 December 2014

A while ago I wrote an article on catster.com on how to make these nifty little steps to help our older cats get up onto all kinds of surfaces around the…

Ruby´s Kinky Tail
  • Ruby

Ruby´s Kinky Tail

  • 4 December 20143 December 2014
Kitty Organ Pipes
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Kitty Organ Pipes

  • 28 September 2014

Lugosi, Ruby and Spider on the stairs outside our apartment…

Me and my Kattens
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby

Me and my Kattens

  • 8 August 20147 August 2014

Spider´s busy schedule prevented him from being available for a photo session… but here´s Lugosi. And Ruby…

Lugosi and I
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi

Lugosi and I

  • 5 June 2014

My soulmate Lugosi and I, chillaxing outside our apartment…

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….

Lugosi sees a ghost!
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Lugosi sees a ghost!

  • 29 September 20133 October 2013

“I see dead people cats….. awww no, it´s just my bro Spider, moving at super speed!

Danger, Danger!
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Danger, Danger!

  • 18 August 2013

Whatever it is…. let´s get ready to…. RUN AWAY! 

Life on the other side of the fence….
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Life on the other side of the fence….

  • 7 August 2013

Gotta see life from *both* sides of the fence!  Spider (left) and Lugosi (right). 

Too hot out there…
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Too hot out there…

  • 3 July 20132 July 2013

Tabby bros Spider (left) and Lugosi chilling at the top of the stairs on a hot summer´s day.

Still here!
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi

Still here!

  • 2 July 2013

I have been a bit quiet with my kitty pic/video posts because of lots and lots of work… but we´re still here, alive and kicking.   Or in Lugosi´s case,…

3 Kattens – A Bird´s Eye View
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

3 Kattens – A Bird´s Eye View

  • 23 May 201319 May 2013

Looking down on the rascals from my 1st floor balcony

Tabby Twins
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Tabby Twins

  • 23 April 201321 April 2013

Lugosi (front) and his twin bro Spider at the bottom of the stairs…

Morning Outing with the Kattens
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

Morning Outing with the Kattens

  • 19 October 201217 October 2012

Only Ruby and Lugosi in this pic with me – Spider was off in the alley exploring!

The Boys
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Boys

  • 23 September 201223 September 2012

…enjoying their daily outing… (and Ruby is there somewhere too, of course)

Pretty Ruby in the outside world…
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby

Pretty Ruby in the outside world…

  • 22 September 2012

She´s a right little scaredy cat. 😉

  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Videos

Today was a hot hot hot day for kitties…..

  • 20 September 201225 September 2012

No way we´re going out in that heat, say Lugosi and Spider.  PLEASE NOTE: If you are a dog owner, consider how hot the pavement is for your doggie´s feat…

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