Cat Rules: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Cat
Ever since their days as Egyptian aristocrats, cats have been perfecting the fine art of getting exactly...
Cancer Feline Zodiac #4
đđŸ Meet the Cancerian Cat â Clowder Pressâs guide to the moody moon-beast of the feline Zodiac! đ±âš...
Was Maurice Ravel Secretly a Cat?
Discover why Franceâs greatest composer may have been more feline than human! From his obsession with...
Hols at Last
Get away time. Â Itâs been an exhausting year so Iâm off.
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Please do be amused and educated...
Feline Zodiac #3 Gemini
Wake up from the warm fuzzy Taurus food coma. Itâs Gemini time again. Irresistible, ruthless charm...
National Tabby Day
It is National Tabby Day once again, so letâs hear it for the mog with the spots and stripes. Â Â
Tabby...
Feline Zodiac #2 Taurus
Last time Taurus came round, Consultant Astrologer Stella Hyde wrote this for us: Â
Life with...
Les Purrs du Mal
It was Charles Baudelaireâs birthday on April 9. He would have been 204. Although itâs a bit late,...
Gestalt and Clowder Press
There are certain truths we come to learn slowlyâover time, and often with the quiet guidance of something...
Clowder Effect Series 1
The Clowder Effect and the Gestalt Influence. Series 1
Something about...The Clowder Effect
Why...
FC Clowder City - April
Gameweek 31 has come and gone, and was uniformly agreed to be disastrous by most FPL punters, so we...
FC Clowder City Springs Forward
FC Clowder City, sponsored by the Clowder Press, is the only FPL team whose players are selected their...
Go With The Flow
The Clowder Press congratulates Flow, directed by Latvian film maker Gints Zilbalodis, in winning this...
Respect Your Cat Day
Yes, yes, we know that every day is Respect Your Cat Day, but March 28 is the official designated Day,...
Clowder Clowder
Belvedere tells me that there is still some confusion over the name Clowder Press. This is rather surprising,...
Feline Zodiac #1 Aries Cat
Iâm the Firestarter. The Spring equinox has sprung, itâs the beginning of the zodiacal year, and here...
Clowderâs Favorite Saint
March 17, is the saintâs day of Gertrude of Nivelles, patron (matron?) saint of cats. At least thatâs...
Clowder Essential with Clowder Press
You will of course find the word essential in your dictionary of choice, so I need not explain. The...
Clowder Parafeline with Clowder Press
How does Parafeline work?
You wonât find the word parafeline in the dictionary yet, but Belvedere...
Maurice Ravel and Clowder's Creative Cats
Today is the birthday of Maurice Ravel, top French composer and noted ailurophile  Heâd be 150,  thatâs...
FC Clowder City - March Report
Roger and I are co managers of FC Clowder City, as you all know, the Fantasy Premier League team owned...
Grand Theft Manek-neko
Hundreds of cats have been stolen from a Gordon Ramsey restaurant. Â Not actual cats, you understand,...
How Many Cats?
Clowder Press is very grateful to the World Animal Foundation for alerting them to a statistical solecism...
Itâs National Cat Day!
Today is National Cat Day in Italy,  Brazil  and Poland. On behalf of Clowder Press,  Belvedere and...
Happy Valentineâs Day
Belvedere and I wish you all a happy and impassioned Valentineâs Day. St Valentine didnât appear to...
Palmerston gets the cream
Congratulations from all of us at Clowder Press to Palmerston, Â Chief Feline Officer of the UK Foreign...
Tuxedo Cat Appreciation Day
Itâs Tuxedo Cat Appreciation Day once more. We covered this in the post of 29 January 2024, so you...
Clowder City Rules
Well. Happy New Year and so forth.
Our team, FC Clowder City, comprised entirely of players who...
Christmas 2024
Belvedere and I, Â and Roger, wish you all a very splendid Christmas from the Clowder Press, where Cats...
FC Clowder City
As you will know from our post on 28 October, Clowder Press have asked us, as Brand Ambassadors, to...
Cats of the Zodiac 8-Scorpio
Readers, I grovel. I have the heart and soul of an unset jelly.Â
Zodiacally speaking we are three...
Superstar Saka SIgning Sensation
As promised, an update on FC Clowder City, the team Roger and I are building for our foray into Fantasy...
Catty Scarlatti
It was Domenico Scarlattiâs birthday on 27 October. He would have been 339 years old. An absolute baroque...
FC Clowder City
Can the feline factor influence the beautiful game?
During the Euros this summer we ran an experiment...
FĂ©licette Astrocat
I have to report a shaming oversight.
It was 61 years ago today, 18 October, that FĂ©licette became...
Cats of the Zodiac 7 - Libra
After a few weeks of being harangued for your own good by Virgo, please welcome Libra, oozing charm,...
Old T.S. Possum
Happy Birthday Old Possum, born 26 September, 1888 in St Louis, Missouri. One of the most significant...
Faulknerâs Clowder
Happy Birthday William Faulkner, novelist, poet and screenwriter, born 25 September 1897 in New Albany,...
Correction: Two Lions
Typical. The minute I publish our helpful naming suggestions, the Starmers unleash the new asset. Here...
âA Very Fine Cat Indeedâ
Samuel Johnson, the Sage of Lichfield, was born on 18 September (or 7 September if you are using the...
Three Lions in Downing Street
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and family are now established in Number 10, along with JoJo, the...
Cats of the Zodiac 6 - Virgo
Virgo, the Clean Up Queen
Leo has left the building. We know this because  cat hairs smother every...
Tuxedo Junction
Itâs Tuxie Appreciation Day, 9 September.I know. It seems only yesterday that we were appreciating...
White Cat Day
White Cat Day is celebrated on 5 September.If you are anywhere near a white cat, Belvedere and I advise...
Agent Orange
Celebrate ten years of Ginger Cat Appreciation Day, which happens on the first day of every September....
Fly Me to the Meown
Belvedere and I (and Roger) have just caught Fly me to the Moon, a very entertaining movie directed...
Black Cat Appreciation Day
Itâs Black Cat Appreciation Day 17 August.
Do not confuse this with National Black Cat Day, which...
The OTHER Cat of Science
Put the Schrödinger feline back in the box. I give you MaÄak. Thanks to MaÄak we have alternating current...
Now you see it...
Enigmatic street artist Banksy has been sparking joy in the UK â well, London mainly â with a series...
THE Cat of Science
Happy Birthday to Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel laureate and pioneer of quantum mechanics, born in Vienna...
International Cat Day
Please excuse the tardy post, Belvedere and I (and Roger) have been celebrating International Cat Day...
JD Vance, oh dear
Belvedere is urging me to comment on the egregious remarks made by JD Vance. Donald Trurmpâs running...
Cats of the Zodiac 5 - Leo
Enter Their Majesty. Itâs Leo time. Red carpets, fanfares and foie gras all round!  After all that...
Under New Management
England went out against Spain (no dishonour) and the manager, Gareth Southgate, has resigned, despite...
Arriba La Roja
Well done SelecciĂłn Española de FĂștbol.The official name of the conquistadors who took the Henry Delaunay...
Hats off to Larry
The UK have just held a General Election. For professional reasons, Belvedere and I must eschew expressing...
EURO 24 5July Update
Well here we are at the quarter finals. Itâs been a tedious trudge through mostly unconvincing group...
Meet Roger
As you will know, Â it has recently been Bring Your Cat to Work Day (see post Monday 24 June.)Â
Belvedere...
Cats of the Zodiac 4 - Cancer
Here come the Moon Cats. After the hyperactive hurly burly of Gemini, Cancerian cats make a soothing,...
Cat World Domination Day
It is now twelve years since the Day was inaugurated on 24 June 2012. It has been an unqualified success....
Take your Cat to Work Day
Isnât this an inspired idea? Itâs something Belvedere and I can really get behind. Â Itâs only been...
Mrkgnao!
This was the yowl heard though the streets of Dublin on 16 June, as fans of James Joyce, cats, and...
UEFA Euro 2024
You may not think so to look at me, but I am a great fan of the beautiful game. Belvedere is betrothed...
Cats of the Zodiac 3 - Gemini
Gemini May 21 to June 21That beautiful bovine Taurus interlude that lulled you into a 25/7 sleep pattern...
Jellicle Joy
Itâs 43 years since Cats the musical opened in the New London Theatre in Covent Garden. Thatâs 304...
D DAY CAT
Thomas Oscar RN. Itâs the 80th anniversary of D-Day on 6 June. In 1944, it saw the launch of Operation...
Florence Nightingale and Mr Bismarck
No not that one. Belvedere has kindly pointed out that if it WERE that one, the heading would have...
Audrey and Orangey
Audrey Hepburn, luminous film star, fabulous fashion icon, and all-round class act, would have been...
The Laureate of Nonsense
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea    In a beautiful pea-green boat,They took some honey, and plenty...
Cat the Great and the Cats
Although born German, Catherine the Great became the Empress of All the Russias, ruling from 1762 until...
Cats of the Zodiac 2 - Taurus
Itâs Taurus Time.
Actually it was 10 days ago, but things slid.
Our astrologer Stella Hyde was...
National Tabby Day
Theyâve got stripes! Theyâve got spots! Theyâve got Ms on their heads! They are smart, capable, resilient,...
Van Cats Victorious
Great news from Turkey! The Van cat population is surging. Van cats are a naturally occuring breed...
Birthday Bard
William Shakespeare was born 23 April 1564 and very poetically died on the same date 52 years later....
Cool Cat, Hot Temper
This week, jazz buffs celebrate Charles Mingus, born in Nogales, Arizona on 22 April 1922. Virtuoso...
Show some Tortitude
Show some Tortitude
Tortitude is what tortoiseshell cats have.
This is what Tortie (or Torty...
National Haiku Poetry Day
National Haiku Poetry DayThis week saw the annual celebration of Japanâs celebrated poetic style, the...
Iron Man, Cat Man
Happy Birthday week to Robert Downey Jr.Born on 4 April, 1965, Robert Downey Jnr (pause for swoon)...
We are Siamese, if you please
Siamese Cat Day is celebrated every year on 6 April. If you are lucky enough to have a Siamese cat,...