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Richard Battye
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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
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Good night from the little cat who lives in the bottom of the laundry basket 😽
A mackerel tabby looks up from the bottom of a large wicker laundry basket. Big enough for a party she thinks!
October 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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IYKYK x
A mackerel tabby all curled up her green eyes looking at you intently over her tail.
September 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Thanks!
Two mackerel tabby sisters curled up on a white bedspread, Molly is napping, Freya is looking up at the camera.
September 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Hiya Molly 😻 lovely to meet you too
Molly, a mackerel tabby looking intently into the camera. She’d like it very much if you have treats. Or maybe you’ve come to rub her belly?
September 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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And I’m Molly’s sister Freya, slightly miffed that you didn’t include me already, just because I don’t have the same pink nose! I was there too you know! #catsofBluesky
Molly’s sister Freya, also a mackerel tabby, on the white bedspread looking a little annoyed.
September 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Hiya Jinx, I’m Molly, lovely to meet you here #catsofBluesky
A mackerel tabby sitting on a white bedspread behind her a blurred framed map. London from the 1940s but too blurred to make out.
September 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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So true x
Two post-breakfast mackerel tabby sisters taking a nap on a white bedspread. They are curled up into a single S with a head at each end. Freya facing towards the camera, Molly facing away.
September 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Ha ha ha. Ha ha.. Ha. . .
On Whitehall with last Saturday’s slightly friendlier march in London for Palestine 06/09/25 Appropriate headgear at last Saturday’s slightly friendlier march in London for Palestine 06/09/25 Speeches at last Saturday’s slightly friendlier march in London for Palestine 06/09/25 Free Palestine. Last Saturday’s slightly friendlier march in London for Palestine 06/09/25
September 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Such goings on, here’s Freya with some string 😽
#catsofBluesky
A mackerel tabby on a white bedspread holding some string/rope between her front paws and licking(!) the end. A mackerel tabby on a white bedspread holding some string/rope between her front paws and biting the end. She looks ’a little’ bonkers.
September 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM