Cats of the Zodiac 8-Scorpio
Readers, I grovel. I have the heart and soul of an unset jelly.
Zodiacally speaking we are three...
Superstar Saka SIgning Sensation
As promised, an update on FC Clowder City, the team Roger and I are building for our foray into Fantasy...
Catty Scarlatti
It was Domenico Scarlatti’s birthday on 27 October. He would have been 339 years old. An absolute baroque...
FC Clowder City
Can the feline factor influence the beautiful game?
During the Euros this summer we ran an experiment...
Félicette Astrocat
I have to report a shaming oversight.
It was 61 years ago today, 18 October, that Félicette became...
Cats of the Zodiac 7 - Libra
After a few weeks of being harangued for your own good by Virgo, please welcome Libra, oozing charm,...
Old T.S. Possum
Happy Birthday Old Possum, born 26 September, 1888 in St Louis, Missouri. One of the most significant...
Faulkner’s Clowder
Happy Birthday William Faulkner, novelist, poet and screenwriter, born 25 September 1897 in New Albany,...
Correction: Two Lions
Typical. The minute I publish our helpful naming suggestions, the Starmers unleash the new asset. Here...
‘A Very Fine Cat Indeed’
Samuel Johnson, the Sage of Lichfield, was born on 18 September (or 7 September if you are using the...
Three Lions in Downing Street
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and family are now established in Number 10, along with JoJo, the...
Cats of the Zodiac 6 - Virgo
Virgo, the Clean Up Queen
Leo has left the building. We know this because cat hairs smother every...
Tuxedo Junction
It’s Tuxie Appreciation Day, 9 September.I know. It seems only yesterday that we were appreciating...
White Cat Day
White Cat Day is celebrated on 5 September.If you are anywhere near a white cat, Belvedere and I advise...
Agent Orange
Celebrate ten years of Ginger Cat Appreciation Day, which happens on the first day of every September....
Fly Me to the Meown
Belvedere and I (and Roger) have just caught Fly me to the Moon, a very entertaining movie directed...
Black Cat Appreciation Day
It’s Black Cat Appreciation Day 17 August.
Do not confuse this with National Black Cat Day, which...
The OTHER Cat of Science
Put the Schrödinger feline back in the box. I give you Mačak. Thanks to Mačak we have alternating current...
Now you see it...
Enigmatic street artist Banksy has been sparking joy in the UK – well, London mainly – with a series...
THE Cat of Science
Happy Birthday to Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel laureate and pioneer of quantum mechanics, born in Vienna...
International Cat Day
Please excuse the tardy post, Belvedere and I (and Roger) have been celebrating International Cat Day...
JD Vance, oh dear
Belvedere is urging me to comment on the egregious remarks made by JD Vance. Donald Trurmp’s running...
Cats of the Zodiac 5 - Leo
Enter Their Majesty. It’s Leo time. Red carpets, fanfares and foie gras all round! After all that...
Under New Management
England went out against Spain (no dishonour) and the manager, Gareth Southgate, has resigned, despite...
Arriba La Roja
Well done Selección Española de Fútbol.The official name of the conquistadors who took the Henry Delaunay...
Hats off to Larry
The UK have just held a General Election. For professional reasons, Belvedere and I must eschew expressing...
EURO 24 5July Update
Well here we are at the quarter finals. It’s been a tedious trudge through mostly unconvincing group...
Meet Roger
As you will know, it has recently been Bring Your Cat to Work Day (see post Monday 24 June.)
Belvedere...
Cats of the Zodiac 4 - Cancer
Here come the Moon Cats. After the hyperactive hurly burly of Gemini, Cancerian cats make a soothing,...
Cat World Domination Day
It is now twelve years since the Day was inaugurated on 24 June 2012. It has been an unqualified success....
Take your Cat to Work Day
Isn’t this an inspired idea? It’s something Belvedere and I can really get behind. It’s only been...
Mrkgnao!
This was the yowl heard though the streets of Dublin on 16 June, as fans of James Joyce, cats, and...
UEFA Euro 2024
You may not think so to look at me, but I am a great fan of the beautiful game. Belvedere is betrothed...
Cats of the Zodiac 3 - Gemini
Gemini May 21 to June 21That beautiful bovine Taurus interlude that lulled you into a 25/7 sleep pattern...
Jellicle Joy
It’s 43 years since Cats the musical opened in the New London Theatre in Covent Garden. That’s 304...
D DAY CAT
Thomas Oscar RN. It’s the 80th anniversary of D-Day on 6 June. In 1944, it saw the launch of Operation...
Florence Nightingale and Mr Bismarck
No not that one. Belvedere has kindly pointed out that if it WERE that one, the heading would have...
Audrey and Orangey
Audrey Hepburn, luminous film star, fabulous fashion icon, and all-round class act, would have been...
The Laureate of Nonsense
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat,They took some honey, and plenty...
Cat the Great and the Cats
Although born German, Catherine the Great became the Empress of All the Russias, ruling from 1762 until...
Cats of the Zodiac 2 - Taurus
It’s Taurus Time.
Actually it was 10 days ago, but things slid.
Our astrologer Stella Hyde was...
National Tabby Day
They’ve got stripes! They’ve got spots! They’ve got Ms on their heads! They are smart, capable, resilient,...
Van Cats Victorious
Great news from Turkey! The Van cat population is surging. Van cats are a naturally occuring breed...
Birthday Bard
William Shakespeare was born 23 April 1564 and very poetically died on the same date 52 years later....
Cool Cat, Hot Temper
This week, jazz buffs celebrate Charles Mingus, born in Nogales, Arizona on 22 April 1922. Virtuoso...
Show some Tortitude
Show some Tortitude
Tortitude is what tortoiseshell cats have.
This is what Tortie (or Torty...
National Haiku Poetry Day
National Haiku Poetry DayThis week saw the annual celebration of Japan’s celebrated poetic style, the...
Iron Man, Cat Man
Happy Birthday week to Robert Downey Jr.Born on 4 April, 1965, Robert Downey Jnr (pause for swoon)...
We are Siamese, if you please
Siamese Cat Day is celebrated every year on 6 April. If you are lucky enough to have a Siamese cat,...
Cats of the Zodiac 1 - Aries
As Aries headbutts Pisces out of the way, we welcome the zodiacal New Year, which starts round about...
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
It’s Respect Your Cat Day on Thursday 28 March.Belvedere, along with many other cat commentators, harrumphs...
One Cool Cat
It’s Steve McQueen’s birthday on Saturday March 24. (Steve McQueen the actor, not Steve McQueen the...
World Poetry Day
World Poetry Day, instigated in 1999 by UNESCO, falls on Thursday, March 21. Many poets were and are...
The Fourth Plinth Winner - Not the Cat
Disappointing news, ailurophiles. The verdict is in, and the winner of the coveted position on the...
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig Ort!
Happy St Patrick’s Day for Sunday, 17 March to all Irish cats and cats of Ireland , all 355,00 of...
St Gertrude of Nivelles
Cats have their very own patron saint.
It’s true. Gertrude of Nivelles is the holy cat lady of...
Albert Einstein
Congratulations to Oppenheimer, which has just swept up seven Oscars, thanks to Christopher Nolan’s...
Cat and Mouse Act
This week sees International Women’s Day on 8 Msrch
This poster, created in 1914 as an advertisement...
Maurice Ravel
Joyeux Anniversaire to Maurice Ravel, BOTD in 1875.
Regarded as France’s greatest living composer...
The Fourth Plinth
Cats and cat lovers assemble – and more importantly, vote. The ballot to choose the new occupant of...
National Cat Day in Russia
Greetings glorious koshki. koty and kotyata of Russia. Today we celebrate you.Russia is home to some...
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus
Happy St David’s day to all you cats of Cymru from the Clowder Press. There are at least 620,000 of...
All the Single Ladies
All the Single Ladies. Today’s the day. It’s Leap Year, it’s February 29, and now’s the time for women...
Neko no Hi!
It’s National Cat Day in Japan on February 22. The date for this annual feline celebration was chosen...
Do the Right Thing
It’s a big year for German philosopher Immanuel Kant. This month sees the 220th anniversary of his...
Cats of the Zodiac 12 - Pisces
Time to splashdown into Pisces, the watery sign at the end of the zodiac. Aquarian enigma gives way...
Presidential Cats
It’s the third Monday in February, and so Presidents Day in USA. It started out as a celebration of...
Happy Birthday Ed Sheeran
Today is the birthday of supertalented singer-songwriter and megastar, Ed Sheeran. He has sold 150...
World Cat Day
Today, February 17, it is World Cat Day in USA. The day was chosen to commemorate the mighty Socks...
For all Cat Lovers
Happy Valentine’s Day to all cat lovers and lovers of cats everywhere. We are marking the occasion...
Cats up Trees
We have been avidly following the news about a heroic chap in New Jersey who rescues cats that, for...
Argylle
Well, this is a bit embarrassing.
The movie Argylle, a spoof spy caper for a family audience, was...
Bukowski on Cats
Belvedere is a big Bukowski fan. He tells me that the ‘laureate of American lowlife’, Charles Bukowski...
Kitted Out on the Cat Walk
Belvedere, who is a shameless frockist, is extremely diverted by the news from the Catwalk. Of course,...
Wolfie the Cat
On 27 January it was the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, infant phenomenon, child prodigy and...
Tuxedo Cat Appreciation Day
Today, January 29, we celebrate Tuxedo Cat Appreciation Day. (This is different from Tuxie Appreciation...
Nuevo Gato Viejo
Belvedere assures me that this is Spanish for New Old Cat, so I hope it is, and that none of our Spanish...
Cats of the Zodiac 11 - Aquarius
It is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius... no it really is. It’s all to do with the Precession of...
Burns Night
January 25 is Burns Night, dedicated the the Scottish bard Robert (‘Rabbie’) Burns, who was BOTD in...
Edgar Allan Poe
Happy Birthday on 19th January to Edgar Allan Poe, US writer, editor, and literary critic and God of...