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Penelope Friday
@penthewriter.bsky.social
Novelist (Bella Books & Nine Star Press) and Regency Period writer.

This is my happy place.

Find photos of cats & Cornwall, good news, funny things, updates of writing, and always ALT TEXT! #writersky

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What’s this? Is it @penthewriter.bsky.social a day late for #Caturday again? Perhaps that’s why Ares is looking at me so susiciously in this picture, suddenly alert as if he thinks I’m Up To Something…
#cats
#CatPhotos
#photography
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I wanted to make this view of #Penzance look as much like a postcard as I could. Do you think I succeeded?
#CornwallPhotos
#photography
#Cornwall
October 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I have been slacking on photos of #Cornwall, so have one of Drift Reservoir.
October 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My spouse bought me flowers the other day, just because. They make me happy.
#bloomscrolling
#FlowerSky
#FlowerPhotos
#photography
#BadPhotography
September 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Sometimes you just need a picture of a sleeping cat to remember not everything is stressful. #CatSky #CatPhotos #cat
September 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I really liked this idea, and it needed a sunflower picture to go with it, so here we go.

Resist fascism and make room for joy :)
September 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Sometimes it feels like everything is a little bit…upsidedown.

#CatSky
Late for #Caturday again
#CatPhotos
#cats
September 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For #Caturday, The occasion on which my Ares #cat met a #dog for the first and only time and, having no common sense, decided to stroll straight up to his face. (He then hissed at him & ran away, which the poor visiting dog took very well and calmly.) Dog was 4 times his size…
#CatPhotos #DogPhotos
August 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Zula is my girl, and it’s been a difficult evening, watching a football match where my team has been playing disastrously. She looks about as happy with it as I was.
#cats
#CatPhotos
#CatSky
August 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Time for a little #Bloomscrolling. Unfortunately, my knowledge of flowers is very limited, so I’m reliant on someone else to tell me what either the yellow or pink (although it was more purple in real life) flowers are.
#FlowerSky #photos #photography #FloraSky
August 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It’s #caturday! And Zula wants to know what you have been doing to deserve the pleasure of her company. #CatSky #CatPhotos
August 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
#Godrevy beach in #Cornwall, looking beautiful as ever. A good place for seal spotting, and there is in fact a tiny seal pup by the side of the near rockface, but he just looks like a white blob.
Taken by my son, whose camera is better than mine! But whose #photos also are. #cornwallsky #photosky
August 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Zula looking cute on a Monday.
August 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Whilst I’m not going to win naturalist medals for this bird photo, I’m pleased with this picture of a herring gull I took at #Porthleven the other day. (I have others where his head is fully visible, but I liked him cleaning his feathers.) #BirdSky #BirdPhotos #Cornwall #photography
August 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Poetry isn’t my strongest suit, though I’ve been published in the past. And I apologise for bringing down the tone from cheerful and/or photos with this poem.

But it’s #SevereMEDay and I’ve been ill for 32+ years, so it deserves some acknowledgement.
August 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Sometimes I’m almost embarrassed to have moved to such a beautiful area. We went out (Very exciting if you’re as disabled as I am) to #Porthleven for an hour today, and it looked beautiful. #Cornwall
#PhotoSky
#HarbourPhotos
#Photography
August 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
It might not be #Caturday but it’s always a good day for pictures of cats, as I’m sure #CatSky would agree. So here are Zula (near) and Ares (back) curled up on my bed with me.

They’re not related, but they’re the most sibling cats ever, sometimes fighting and sometimes curled up together.
August 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
My parents have just moved from the other end of the country to live close by to me. We’ve lived close to each other all of my life until I moved last December, so I’m thrilled they decided to move down this way too. (Picture from their garden)
August 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
An attempt at #Bloomscrolling with some very pretty pansies in my parents’ new garden.
July 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I don’t usually post videos, but if you want something very soothing to watch, try this. There’s no sound, it’s just a video of the sea doing what it does on a calm summer evening. #Penzance #Cornwall #PhotographySky
Courtesy of my son.
July 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
An attempt at an arty picture (not *just* because it’s in monochrome!) with the image of a young man standing alone skimming stones on #Marazion beach.
#CornwallPhotos
#SkyPhotography
#Cornwall
July 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
For #Caturday, I thought you guys might like Zula producing the most enormous yawn! I was quite chuffed I managed to catch it on camera, but I swear the yawn is almost bigger than she is! #CatSky #CatPhotos
July 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Spouse piggy-backed me down to the sea today and I got to go swimming*! It was splendid and not nearly as cold as the Cornish sea sometimes can be, even if spouse and son thought I was silly.

*after taking codeine before we left home, and sleeping both before and after, in usual disability fashion!
July 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
And to make up for my posts dithering about emails, here’s a #photo I call, “how long does #Penzance have before its railway falls into the sea?”
#cornwall
#SkyPhotography
#SkyCornwall
July 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I took this #photo as a sort of ‘hit and hope’ - the sun was so bright, I couldn’t see what I was taking, but I’m pleased with the way it came out, with the opening of the harbour framing the sunlit water *and* St Michael’s Mount. #Cornwall
#skyphotography
#CornwallPhotos
#Penzance
July 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM