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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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  • Spider
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The Boys Love Those Stick Treats!

  • 16 April 201514 April 2015

Lugosi & Spider: “Oooh! Nom! Gissa more of those!”

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….

Tis Cold!!!
  • 3 Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Tis Cold!!!

  • 10 April 20159 April 2015

Me and my kattens all huddled around the radiator!  Thankfully, it´s a lot warmer now – this photo was taken on 24th March… 🙂

Happy Easter from the Easter Cats
  • 3 Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Happy Easter from the Easter Cats

  • 5 April 2015
Comfy? Me?
  • Spider

Comfy? Me?

  • 2 April 20151 April 2015

What do *you* think? Spider strikes a pose…

Afternoon of Long Cat Shadows
  • Barbarella
  • Spider

Afternoon of Long Cat Shadows

  • 29 March 201528 March 2015

SpiderCat pretending to be Batman(cat) again…

Cat-Ecliptic!
  • Miscellaneous
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Cat-Ecliptic!

  • 20 March 2015

Since everybody is talking and tweeting about the solar eclipse this morning, Spider thought he´d want a piece of the action too…. so here he is in his natural cat-ecliptic…

More Cat Stuff!
  • Cat Stuff
  • Miscellaneous
  • Spider

More Cat Stuff!

  • 19 March 2015

A Mad Cat Lady can never have enough cat stuff! This trinket box and compact mirror arrived from eBay today. I think I need to build an extension to my…

Paws ´n Claws
  • Lugosi
  • Paws
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Paws ´n Claws

  • 19 March 201517 March 2015

Pawsome shots of my 3 rascals! Spider Lugosi´s prosh pawsie crossinks! (note: this is CuteOverload speak). Ruby

Happy St Cat-rick´s Day (2)
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Happy St Cat-rick´s Day (2)

  • 17 March 2015

The boys just granted me a photo sesh for St Cat-rick´s Day…

  • Barbarella
  • Catnip
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Smells Like Catnip – Starring Lugosi & Spider

  • 13 March 201512 March 2015

After harvesting fresh catnip leaves, the boys go mad over the smell on my hands!

More TV Shoot Pics of Me and the Boys
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

More TV Shoot Pics of Me and the Boys

  • 12 March 2015

I was just emailed some gorgeous photos one of the TV guys took on Tuesday of me with Lugosi & Spider – photography credit goes to Paul Fletcher of ReadyReady…

TV Shoot with the Cats Today
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Outdoors
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

TV Shoot with the Cats Today

  • 10 March 2015

After the airline losing the TV team´s camera equipment on Sunday, they finally managed to get a replacement camera sent over this morning, and we did all the filming that…

Spider Mugshot
  • Spider

Spider Mugshot

  • 8 March 20157 March 2015

Spider has his face on a mug! His very own mugshot! Saw this lovely cup on eBay and had to get it because it´s just so much like my boy…

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…

Behold the Amazing One-Eared Cat!
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Behold the Amazing One-Eared Cat!

  • 1 March 201528 February 2015

Uhm, sorry bro, but I have to put it to you… you appear to have lost an ear!

Feline Partners in Crime
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Feline Partners in Crime

  • 28 February 201526 February 2015

Spider and Ruby look like they´re up to no good again…

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! 

To the loves of my life…
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

To the loves of my life…

  • 14 February 201514 February 2015

Happy Valentine´s Day, my furbabies. Love you lots! Signed, Mummy

SpiderCat, SpiderCat…
  • Spider

SpiderCat, SpiderCat…

  • 12 February 2015

Or is it Bat(man)Cat?

Kitties under the Pale Moonlight
  • Lugosi
  • Outdoors
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Kitties under the Pale Moonlight

  • 8 February 20157 February 2015

Out in the alley by the full moon…. SpiderCat RubyLoaf Lugosi´s Silhouette

Gimme!!!
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Gimme!!!

  • 2 February 2015

They do love those stick treats… 🙂

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…

The Kray Tabby Twins
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

The Kray Tabby Twins

  • 29 January 2015

My boys are so much cuter though! 😉

Spider Peekaboo
  • Spider

Spider Peekaboo

  • 24 January 201523 January 2015
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…

  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Radio Interview with CJAD Montreal

  • 14 January 2015

More fame for me and my kattens! Here´s a recording of the short interview I just did with Barry Morgan on this Canadian radio station… 🙂 Share Music – Embed…

From the Kitty Fight Club Archives
  • Kitty Fight
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

From the Kitty Fight Club Archives

  • 14 January 201513 January 2015

Ruby v. Spider. Catnip. Cue the Smackdown!

Finally, he truth and nothing but the truth about marrying my cats….
  • 3 Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Finally, he truth and nothing but the truth about marrying my cats….

  • 13 January 201512 January 2015

The Huffington Post interviewed me the other day after seeing the article about having married my cats in the British press, and in that interview I got the chance in…

Cute Kitty Butts
  • Ruby
  • Spider

Cute Kitty Butts

  • 12 January 20158 January 2015

Spider and Ruby showing off their fluffy rear ends…

Barbs!
  • Spider

Barbs!

  • 10 January 20158 January 2015

Yes, that´s what my name (Barbarella) is shortened to, but in this case I´m referring to Spider´s amazing tongue barbs… Barbs ENHANCE!

Happy 11th Anniversary to my Boys!
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Happy 11th Anniversary to my Boys!

  • 9 January 20159 January 2015

To my sweet boys, Lugosi & Spider: I still love you as much, if not more, as on the first day we met back in March 2000. And your purrs…

Meowing in the Rain, just Meowing in the Rain!
  • Ruby
  • Spider

Meowing in the Rain, just Meowing in the Rain!

  • 9 January 20158 January 2015

Ruby and Spider demonstrate that rain can be fun, even for cats! 🙂

  • Barbarella
  • Cat Stuff
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

I married my cats – in the British press again!

  • 7 January 20157 January 2015

We are getting more and more famous! 🙂 Click here to read this wonderful article in the Daily Mail Online yesterday… 

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

Ménage à Trois: 3 Cats Grooming Each Other

  • 5 January 2015

This is just too adorable…. Lugosi, Spider and Ruby all grooming each other!

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

Brotherly Tiff

  • 28 December 201428 December 2014

Lugosi to Spider: “You shall not pass!”

Catty Photo Session
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Catty Photo Session

  • 26 December 201427 December 2014

Here are a couple more photos from the photo shoot back in November that they did for the article that was in THE SUN the other day….

Merry Christmas from Lugosi, Spider & Ruby
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Merry Christmas from Lugosi, Spider & Ruby

  • 25 December 2014

Wishing everybody a great time this Christmas and New Year….

Fame at last: I married my Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Fame at last: I married my Cats

  • 24 December 201424 December 2014

On 4th November this year UK journalist Pesala, together with photographer Matt from News Dog Media, came over to Lanzarote to do an interview and photoshoot with me and the…

Merry Christmas from Haus von Fluffenstein
  • 3 Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Merry Christmas from Haus von Fluffenstein

  • 24 December 201420 December 2014
Selfies with Lugosi
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Spider

Selfies with Lugosi

  • 23 December 201420 December 2014

Me and ma boy! 🙂 And a selfie with Spider too!

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

Every Cat has a Different Meowing Voice

  • 7 December 20146 December 2014

Just like us humans, every cat sounds different when he/she talks. They all have distinctly different sounding voices. Even though a non-cat person may notice it, here are my 3…

SpiderCat in Car
  • Spider

SpiderCat in Car

  • 23 November 201422 November 2014

Spider is much happier and calmer sitting on the back seat, safe and secure on his pet belt, than couped up in the cat bag when going to the vets……

My Clowder wants Treats!
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

My Clowder wants Treats!

  • 22 November 2014
On a rainy night in Lanzarote…
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

On a rainy night in Lanzarote…

  • 20 November 2014

My 3 rascals take over the living room!

Alley Cats
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Alley Cats

  • 17 November 201415 November 2014

Some random piccies from our supervised kitty outings…. The Boys Ruby behind bars! How am I going to get out of this prison?! Hey, I´m a cat. Tis easy!

Purdy SpiderCat
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Purdy SpiderCat

  • 16 November 201415 November 2014
Retro Spider
  • Spider

Retro Spider

  • 11 November 20148 November 2014

Two lovely piccies of Spider outside in the alley that I shot using a sepia filter the other day…

Playful Grandaddy
  • Spider

Playful Grandaddy

  • 3 November 2014

Spider is a 15 year old “grandad”, but he´s still soooo playful! He loves playing with the leaves outside that the wind blows around…

Happy Halloween from Haus von Fluffenstein
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Happy Halloween from Haus von Fluffenstein

  • 31 October 201431 October 2014

And some other photos from that session… Nom. Treats! And Catnip! Spider really doesn´t want to be there… Ruby posing pretty

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