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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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    • 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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Ruby helping
  • Ruby

Ruby helping

  • 4 October 20114 October 2011

Cats are well known for “helping” with anything from homework to DIY projects.  Here´s Ruby supervising my friend Brian put on a new light fitting….

Spider posing
  • Spider

Spider posing

  • 28 August 201128 August 2011

Purrfect pose, Spider!

3some on the bed
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

3some on the bed

  • 17 August 201117 August 2011

Ruby´s like “whaddayawant?!”.

Cat in 2 Parts
  • Ruby

Cat in 2 Parts

  • 25 July 2011

One part of cat….Two parts of cat!.

Blissful Synchronised Sleepinks
  • Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Blissful Synchronised Sleepinks

  • 16 June 201116 June 2011
Lugosi loves his mummy…
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Videos

Lugosi loves his mummy…

  • 12 June 2011

I had been away for a few days, and Lugosi was sooo happy to see me – the feeling was mutual. 🙂

Brothers…
  • Kitty Fight

Brothers…

  • 6 June 20116 June 2011

Spider & Lugosi are having a bit of a tiff….*note the hyena hair on Spider´s back*

Ruby gets comfy…
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

Ruby gets comfy…

  • 24 April 2011

… resting her legs on Lugosi…

Morning Bliss
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Morning Bliss

  • 23 April 201123 April 2011

All 4 of us sharing the bed…. 🙂

Spider´s Nest
  • Spider

Spider´s Nest

  • 22 April 201122 April 2011

I swear I didn´t do this – he made this cushy nest all by himself!  Talented little boy….

Poor Sick Spider Boy
  • Spider

Poor Sick Spider Boy

  • 11 March 201111 March 2011

He actually tucks himself in like this because he´s ill – he has just been diagnosed with a chronic condition called Megacolon, which causes him a lot of pain, but…

Kitty Fight Club: Bed Fight Ruby v. Lugosi
  • Kitty Fight
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Kitty Fight Club: Bed Fight Ruby v. Lugosi

  • 10 March 2011
Mop Kitty Bed
  • Other Cats

Mop Kitty Bed

  • 1 March 20111 March 2011

Squeaky says:  “My trendy new mop bed is very comfortabuhls!”

This morning, 05:20am
  • Cute
  • Ruby

This morning, 05:20am

  • 24 February 201124 February 2011

Early or not, I just couldn´t help myself and simply *had* to capture this pose! 🙂

Caught in the Act!
  • Cute
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

Caught in the Act!

  • 13 November 201013 November 2010

It´s a bit of a fuzzy picture, but it´s rather priceless…. Lugosi & Ruby caught in the Act!

Exercise Ruby Style
  • Cute
  • Kitty Fight
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

Exercise Ruby Style

  • 16 May 201016 May 2010

.POUNCE!.And a few minutes before this, she cramped Lugosi´s style, who got angry after just minding his own business and lying peacefully on the bed! 😉

Still Life
  • Cute
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

Still Life

  • 17 February 201017 February 2010

Synchronised sleeping…

Always worth waking up to…
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Always worth waking up to…

  • 17 February 201017 February 2010

Taking with mobile phone camera, hence a bit fuzzy quality..

Beautiful Ruby
  • Ruby

Beautiful Ruby

  • 14 February 201014 February 2010
  • Cute
  • Ruby
  • Videos

Ruby goes undercover to catch bed mice…

  • 30 January 201030 January 2010
First thing I see when I wake up
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

First thing I see when I wake up

  • 13 December 200913 December 2009
  • Cute
  • Ruby
  • Videos

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. 🙂

Emo Spider
  • Silly Pics
  • Spider

Emo Spider

  • 6 November 20096 November 2009

Spider is seriously starting to become a total teenager…. first he goes on a hunger strike, and now he´s being silly hiding from everybody under the bed covers. Next he´ll…

An Unholy Trinity…
  • Cute
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

An Unholy Trinity…

  • 6 October 2009

Spider (left), Ruby-Kitten and Lugosi 🙂

My 3 Kattens
  • Cute
  • Spider & Lugosi with Janelle

My 3 Kattens

  • 24 September 200924 September 2009

A wide shot of all my 3 bebbehs in the bedroom….

Tabby Cat in its Nest
  • Cute
  • Spider

Tabby Cat in its Nest

  • 18 September 200918 September 2009

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

  • Cute
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Kitty Playtime!

  • 17 September 200917 September 2009

Playing with Spider & Lugosi, throwing one of their favourite toys (a rustly, foil paper ball) and watching them jump after it madly!

Spider´s got Talent!
  • Cute
  • Spider

Spider´s got Talent!

  • 22 August 200922 August 2009

Check this out (and I swear I did not have a hand in this)  – Spider *made* this perfect little cat bed out of the bed cover this afternoon.  I…

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