Nature: A rose in the sun, enjoying the life-giving rays.
Cats: Meet Frankemie, a young she-kitty who is apparently nursing and was desperately needing some good nourishment when she showed up dripping wet at the House of Chaos a few days ago during a heavy downpour. Since then she has already come back 4 times in order to bunker. She would follow me down 3 streets and run in when I open the front door, making a beeline towards the food bowls. Poor thing. I wonder whether her keepers feed her at all ?
Robots: our heavyweight Obsidian getting a flying lesson from Ripper at the Roaming Robots UK Championships on the Fairford RAF base. (The Royal Air Force Tattoo was cancelled due to heavy rainfall but they allowed our championships to take place anyway. Yay for the RAF !!!) Mind you, the robot you see effortlessly flying there weighs 96 kilos.
And I helped build it.
Frankemie allows us to touch her when she is eating. She is rather friendly for a stray, which makes us believe that she does belong to a household but isn’t well taken care of.
The robot is indeed a Robot Wars robot. Although the TV program is no more we still keep the hobby alive and kicking.
The book "Tales from the House of Chaos" has been published with ISBN 978-1-4092-0781-8 as its number. Available immediately at Lulu.com, available soon at other outlets like Amazon.com.
Just to remind you, we have 9 main players in this game (besides some extras):
Loup-Garou Mafkat
("wherewolf" crazy/sleepy cat) - black with a little bit of white, très couch-potato
Bean Sidhe WOAH-He’s-Big-!
(a.k.a. Banshee "wailing ghost" = mythical Irish ghost/typical outcry of any visitor) - white and orange tabby part Maine Coon, trying to grow larger than the kitchen counter is high
Hrimnir de WC-plonzer, Protteke
("Shrouded with Frost" = mythical Norse giant/the toilet-plunger/little fart) - white, grey and cream tabby part Norwegian Forestcat, slowly turning into a very solid bloke indeed
Freya Gastropode
("Norse Goddess of love, beauty and fertility/Stomach on Legs") - female grey tabby gastropod, mommy of Isegrim, tries to convince us that she is eternally starving and needs to be fed NOW
Isegrim Dondersteen
("Grey Helmet/very busy critter") - iron grey with faint tabby markings, son of Freya, "dondersteen" could also be interpreted as "stone that falls very very hard" because as I'm typing this he's 5 years old and weighing 5.5 kilos...
Rikishi Rotzakske
("Stong Man" in Japanese/"Rotten One" or "Bad One") possibly half-brother of Gorgor, ginger shorthair tabby with white socks and breast, the most wild of the two youngsters and prone to attack when angry; known to ambush those bigger and fiercer than himself
Bliksem (“Lightning”)
A feral young tomcat who dwells in the House of Chaos solely for eats and sleeps. Faster than his shadow hence his name.
Chuck sNorris van Droomwereld
Chuck van Droomwereld ("of Dreamworld") is his pedigree name, the rest refers to a well-known martial arts actor and "snor" actually means moustache. This is a very silent Maine Coon with majestical whiskers who's never heard but quite well seen - fleeing at least. He should aspire more to be like his namesake !!
Chateau Beau van Spinnepoes aka Beauregard
"Castle Beauty of Purpuss" is his pedigree name but I like his new name better (regard means both looking and esteem). He's gorgeous and he knows it. He also has the cutest high-pitched mew which sounds strange coming from such a big beast. And he's still growing.
Also starring:
Grumpy Man, The Mistress, Bouncing Psycho, The Strong Woman of Flanders, The Lord of Toys, The Cleaning Scourge, The Man in White, and the occasional hapless visitor.
House of Chaos 
July 15, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Nature: A rose in the sun, enjoying the life-giving rays.
Cats: Meet Frankemie, a young she-kitty who is apparently nursing and was desperately needing some good nourishment when she showed up dripping wet at the House of Chaos a few days ago during a heavy downpour. Since then she has already come back 4 times in order to bunker. She would follow me down 3 streets and run in when I open the front door, making a beeline towards the food bowls. Poor thing. I wonder whether her keepers feed her at all ?
Robots: our heavyweight Obsidian getting a flying lesson from Ripper at the Roaming Robots UK Championships on the Fairford RAF base. (The Royal Air Force Tattoo was cancelled due to heavy rainfall but they allowed our championships to take place anyway. Yay for the RAF !!!) Mind you, the robot you see effortlessly flying there weighs 96 kilos.
And I helped build it.
July 15, 2008 at 8:18 pm
pretty sharp photos! and the last is just amazing! yay to you!
July 15, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Great stuff!
July 16, 2008 at 6:45 am
Those robots are really cool. Happy WW.
July 16, 2008 at 9:31 am
Love the shots. Are those robot wars robots? Happy WW!
July 16, 2008 at 1:07 pm
love the rose, and poor hungry kitty looks like you were getting too close to the food with that look, and way cool on the building robots front!
July 16, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Frankemie allows us to touch her when she is eating. She is rather friendly for a stray, which makes us believe that she does belong to a household but isn’t well taken care of.
The robot is indeed a Robot Wars robot. Although the TV program is no more we still keep the hobby alive and kicking.