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Richard Battye
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Perhaps quite wise, this took a lot of treats and quite a bit of ’wrangling’ in 2021.
Freya, not completely convinced by her Christmas outfit 2021. aka a tabby cat wearing a red cape with white trim and Santa hat standing on some newspaper wrapped boxes. Molly, also not impressed by her Christmas outfit 2021. aka a tabby cat wearing a red scarf with a Santa hat hanging off one ear standing on a newspaper wrapped box meowing.
December 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Hiya from another #caturday #catBoxingday
A mackerel tabby sitting upright in a white cardboard box, her ear tufts are just in front of the top flap of the box. She’s alert, eyes wide open, ready for anything, treats, or a nap.
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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To the radiator for a nap perhaps, happy Fridays out there #catsofBluesky
A mackerel tabby has a snooze, nose down, on the shelf above the radiator. Quite the happy snoozy place.
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Wow! I’d very much like to visit. Space House is the closest I’ve come - a cylindrical tower in London… Just high enough to have a clear view to the PO Tower.
Space House, Richard Seifert & Partners 1968 cylindrical sister to Centerpoint, as beautifully restored, and extend by Squire & Partners. The Post Office Tower from the roof terrace at Space House.
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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*looks away*
A mackerel tabby sitting with her left elbow out in some cardboard packing turns to her right to see what her sister, out of shot, is up to.
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Fancy Danish architect designed chairs for the giants, just cardboard boxes for us cats down here. It’s a hard old life, might look sad for a bit and see if I can get some treats out of it 😻 #catBoxingday
A mackerel tabby sits in a small cardboard box on the floor in the kitchen, above her on the right are two series seven Arne Jacobsen plywood chairs in bright orange. Not that she knows it but they are from 1973!
November 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Goodnight from the little cat that lives under the bed 😻
A mackerel tabby looking out from her hiding place under the bed.
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Well, that was a week. Roll on #Caturday 😻
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Comfy x
A mackerel tabby curled up stretching out her front paws on the blanket on the radiator shelf. An excellent place to be, she thinks to herself, her two green eyes looking into the camera.
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Hiya 😻 me too!
A mackerel tabby sitting neatly in a cardboard box. Not you with the camera again she thinks, have you not seen me in three other boxes already today? And also, time for treats?
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Time for a #catnap x
A mackerel tabby lies on a blanket on the shelf over the radiator, rests her eyes and considers a nap, always a wise move she thinks.
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Two in Battersea too!
Two twenty story square 1960s/70s towerblocks in Battersea in the beginning of a sunset after the rain. As repeated as another pair in Surrey Quays and a set of five in Camberwell.
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Looks very fabulous, I may go for a shop on AbeBooks… it does look like it includes our neighbours by Colin Lucas when he was at the LCC misfitsarchitecture.com/2013/10/04/a...
Three of the five towerblocks on the Wyndham and Comber estate in Camberwell. Designed by Colin Lucas in the LCC Architects’ Department.
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Found the perfect box for #Caturday yet?
A mackerel tabby sitting in a cardboard delivery box enjoying Caturday, while wondering why, on the special day of cats, breakfast was late, again. Despite her, and her sister’s, vocal demands.
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Round windows are the best!
A mackerel tabby looks out from the round window in the box of the day. She’s looking up and possibly thinking, I wonder if there might be some cheese available…
November 5, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Like a box, but round? Interesting
A mackerel tabby looks out from the round window in a square box. She’s perhaps trying to remember if breakfast was ten minutes or ten weeks ago. Must be nearly elevenses?
October 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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A mackerel tabby in her box castle, eyes barely open. She thinks another nap is the thing.
October 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Night all, hope you’ve all found a comfy box #catsofBluesky
A mackerel tabby at night looking out, pupils super wide, from her favourite, for now at least, box, until the giants deliver another.
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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I think Brutalism has always made for an excellent fashion backdrop, here the back of the Queen Elizabeth Hall (under the Purcell) and Hayward Gallery terraces at Southbank Centre for Burberry in 1968.
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Two models for Burberry standing in front of a London taxi next to the back of the Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre. Black and white 1968ish. A małe model dressed in Burberry leaning against a board struck concrete wall at the Hayward Gallery, two terraces up a second female model can just be seen. Black and white 1968ish.
October 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Hello and welcome to autumn #Caturday
A mackerel tabby looks out from her perch on the balcony wall. In the background a tree turning orange/yellow and one of Camberwell’s towerblocks.
October 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Hiya x
A mackerel tabby looks up from her snooze. Have you come to ruffle my fluff? she says.
October 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Yay! Have a great day x
A mackerel tabby on a bedspread yawning and flexing her left back paw. Behind her, slightly blurred, a framed map of 1940s London that really needs hanging, dear giants! Time for a snack, she thinks, perhaps.
October 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Awww xxx
A mackerel tabby looks out from the safety of a cardboard box. Where’s my pesky sister she might be thinking…
October 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Night Callie, I have a little calico/tortie asymmetry in my tabbiness x Freya x
A close up of a mackerel tabby in the dark. Her pupils are wide open as she waits to see if she can jump out on her sister.
October 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Hi there Whiskers x
A mackerel tabby fills the photo looking very serious as she closes in on you. If you don’t have treats you might be a done for. Great whiskers!
October 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM