Sagittarius Cats: Certified Agents of Chaos
Cats of the Zodiac
Sagittarius is in the house — and possibly on the rafters. ♐️🐾
These feline...
Virgo got delayed - or rather stood up!
At Clowder Press, we know every zodiac sign has a feline twin—and the Virgo cat (August 24–September...
From London to LA: Libra Cats Rule the Zodiac
♎🐾 Clowder Press presents the Libra Cat — the zodiac’s smoothest operator and undisputed master of...
Fantasy Premier League - FC Clowder City returns
Fantasy Premier League 2025-6. We’re back!
Yes, FC Clowder City is back this season to repeat our...
Cats of the Zodiac: Leo
Break out the fizz. Leo’s back! Self-confidence, self-belief and chutzpah in a luxury furry suit....
Bastille Cats: A (Slightly Late) Feline Revolution 🇫🇷🐾
Bastille Cats
Clowder Press, a bit en retard, celebrates Bastille Day, France’s Fete Nationale...
Natioal Kitten Day 2025
Get your pounce on!
Celebrate National Kitten Day with Clowder Press. Kittens are essentially...
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
🌙🐾 Meet the Cancerian Cat — Clowder Press’s guide to the moody moon-beast of the feline Zodiac! 🐱✨...
Was Maurice Ravel Secretly a Cat?
Discover why France’s greatest composer may have been more feline than human! From his obsession with...
Hols at Last
Get away time. It’s been an exhausting year so I’m off.
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Please do be amused and educated...
Feline Zodiac #3 Gemini
Wake up from the warm fuzzy Taurus food coma. It’s Gemini time again. Irresistible, ruthless charm...
National Tabby Day
It is National Tabby Day once again, so let’s hear it for the mog with the spots and stripes.
Tabby...
Feline Zodiac #2 Taurus
Last time Taurus came round, Consultant Astrologer Stella Hyde wrote this for us:
Life with...
Les Purrs du Mal
It was Charles Baudelaire’s birthday on April 9. He would have been 204. Although it’s a bit late,...
Gestalt and Clowder Press
There are certain truths we come to learn slowly—over 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
I’m the Firestarter. The Spring equinox has sprung, it’s the beginning of the zodiacal year, and here...
Clowder’s Favorite Saint
March 17, is the saint’s day of Gertrude of Nivelles, patron (matron?) saint of cats. At least that’s...
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 won’t 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 He’d be 150, that’s...
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. 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...
It’s National Cat Day!
Today is National Cat Day in Italy, Brazil and Poland. On behalf of Clowder Press, Belvedere and...
Happy Valentine’s Day
Belvedere and I wish you all a happy and impassioned Valentine’s Day. St Valentine didn’t appear to...
Palmerston gets the cream
Congratulations from all of us at Clowder Press to Palmerston, Chief Feline Officer of the UK Foreign...
Tuxedo Cat Appreciation Day
It’s 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, 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.
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 Scarlatti’s 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...
Félicette Astrocat
I have to report a shaming oversight.
It was 61 years ago today, 18 October, that Félicette 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...
Faulkner’s 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...
‘A Very Fine Cat Indeed’
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
It’s 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
It’s 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 Mačak. Thanks to Mačak we have alternating current...
Now you see it...
Enigmatic street artist Banksy has been sparking joy in the UK – well, London mainly – 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 Trurmp’s running...
Cats of the Zodiac 5 - Leo
Enter Their Majesty. It’s 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 Selección Española de Fútbol.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. It’s been a tedious trudge through mostly unconvincing group...
Meet Roger
As you will know, it has recently been Bring Your Cat to Work Day (see post Monday 24 June.)
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
Isn’t this an inspired idea? It’s something Belvedere and I can really get behind. It’s 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
It’s 43 years since Cats the musical opened in the New London Theatre in Covent Garden. That’s 304...
D DAY CAT
Thomas Oscar RN. It’s 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
It’s Taurus Time.
Actually it was 10 days ago, but things slid.
Our astrologer Stella Hyde was...