Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Cats and Graffiti in Shoreditch (With Bonus Cat)

Balthazar, resident of Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium

7 January 2020

No trip to London is complete without a visit to a cat cafe. We returned to Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium to play with the latest adoptees, most of whom were self-entertaining and couldn't have cared less if we pet them or not. Such is the essence of cat.

Dorian, who is annoyed by the kittens:



Mountolive (Olive), one of the kittens:



Victor, found as a kitten, always a kitten, due to a hormonal defect:


Pip, a kitten:


Cassandra, the Alpha Cat:





Rodney:


Tinkerbell (L) and Lizzie (R):


Lizzie on the wheel:



Tinkerbell:


Balthazar (Baz), a kitten who is still getting used to people:





Baz playing with my camera strap:




Baz with his teaser toy:

Baz peering down from his safe perch:




Oberon (Obie):


Teddy:



 The cat cafe is in East London, in Shoreditch. Here, graffiti is an art form:















Bloomsbury, where we're staying, had been cat-free until we found this very orange mush lounging outside of the Brunswick Centre. He let us talk to him and pet him, letting out happy peeps and chirps. Clearly he was well cared-for. He was this trip's bonus cat:






1 comment:

frallen2002@yahoo.com said...

That sounds like so much fun. I hope one day Jamesie and I will get to go back to London and hang out at a cat Cafe while seeing all the stuff we didn't get around to in our 2018 trip. We want to see the Chelsea Physik Garden and Kew Gardens as well as the Royal Observatory and both Tate Museums. I also want to go to the Museum of London and geek out on the exhibit about London's geology. Have you been to Chelsea Physik Garden. I hear it's really interesting.