Leigh Loveday

@leighloveday

Another writer fleeing Twitter. 30 years of videogame-adjacent scrawling and also, these days, weird short stories. Pics of cats, books and foxes likely.

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Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· 1d

I'll spare you a picture of the cavernous abscess-hole I have to swab out every few hours, and just show you Fizz's high-as-a-kite face after a day on opioids at the vet's instead

White and grey cat wearing a buster collar looking up with dilated pupils that give her the appearance of perceiving the timestream

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· 18d

Happy #Caturday from Void Baby, who exists only for crime

Young black cat sitting on a kitchen chair with one paw resting casually on top and the defiant expression of an adorable little dickhead

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· 21d

I just don't think I should have to put up with this level of disrespect

Large tabby cat lying on a kitchen table with her tail draped across a plate of fish and chips and her bumhole pressed delicately against the rim

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· 25d

It's strong! I see your wolf and raise you a bush dog with a hard boiled egg (Peak Wildlife Park, same visit, no I didn't know what a bush dog was before that either)

What looks like a small dog-sized bear sitting in the grass guarding its prize, a hard boiled egg that it's slobbered all over

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· 25d

In the absence of new #Caturday material here's a picture I took at the zoo last week of an Arctic fox doing a blep

Grey-and-white Arctic fox sunbathing in the long grass above its den, sticking its dainty tongue out at the uncouth zoo rabble

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Jul 11

Hand-fed a wallaby (and a deer). They're such weird little guys (not the deer).

Polite wallaby at the wildlife park eating out of my hand - acceptable wallaby food, not like a whole packet of Chewits

Polite sika deer at the wildlife park eating out of my hand - proper deer food, not like a giant Toblerone

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Jul 4

Li'l Fizzbeth up on the fence bestows #Caturday blessings upon you

White cat with grey patches and one truncated ear caused by Shenanigans She Does Not Wish to Discuss gazes at you from the top of a garden fence against a background of leaves and sky

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Jul 3

Got mine. Ready to sit out in the garden this weekend with some bridge-based reading material and without, hopefully, heatstroke-related hospitalisation.

Paperback copy of 'Mudlarking', the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2026, in the grass with a big snoozing tabby cat wearing a jaunty red bow, which she fell asleep before she finished shouting about

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Jun 27

Out 'n' about on the Gower. In a record-breaking heatwave. Because we're a danger to ourselves.

Wooden bench and table overlooking Llanrhidian salt marsh and the estuary beyond, under a bluish-white sky of sizzling doom

Sign saying "Visitors are warned to take every care to avoid accidents" next to an archway at Weobley Castle. Don't tell me what to do, Weobley Castle

View from the dunes across Rhossili Bay with spiky grasses in the foreground and the literal tourist trap that is Worm's Head on the horizon

Information board featuring a map of the Gower Peninsula in South Wales, with a boatload of bays and a cache of castles

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Jun 21

Father's Day book gains: another solid showing this year, once again the children may remain housed and fed Feat. @blpublishing.bsky.social, @catamaroon.bsky.social

Copies of 'Shadows Over Cymru: Uncanny Stories of the Welsh Weird' edited by Aaron Worth and 'When There Are Wolves Again' by E. J. Swift

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Jun 20

Look away now if you don't want to see the Olympus of meat I conquered today

A mountain-sized sharing platter of meat served up in a Greek restaurant

An empty wooden serving board where a proud cliff face of meat once stood

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Jun 19

Void Baby has also forgotten what paws are for

Young black cat lolling around on his back, all floppy-pawed, on a big scratch pad that I think is supposed to look like a wheel of cheese for reasons known only to its manufacturer

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Jun 14

Nice, also (just about) managed four!

Badges for submitting to the National Flash Fiction Day 2026 Write-In (story prompts 0, 8, 14 and 24), in colours best described as limited edition shower gel

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Jun 14

It's sausage roll o'clock in fox town

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Jun 14

Here's the old stone pier in the story below. Had no gates or warning signs back in the day so Ffion would have been way down at the far end, flanked by the Dragons' Teeth, looking back.

Low stone breakwater stretching across sand towards the sea, still wet from the outgoing tide, flanked by a lifebuoy and a signpost warning against climbing, fishing, jumping, swimming or basically any human activity

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Jun 13

Happy #Caturday from Void Baby, the new champion of hunting and killing bits of grass, having seized the title from his now disinterested mother

Young black cat wearing a cute daisy collar even though he is very fierce, lying in a back garden with a battered grass stem that has submitted to his powerful hunting instincts

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Jun 6

Happy #Caturday from Cleo and the bit of grass she proudly hunted to death, then got angry when I tried to slide it away from her because this was SERIOUS BUSINESS and not some frivolous playtime opportunity

Tortie cat Cleo sprawled on a garden path with her latest hunting trophy, a long and mangled grass stem, proudly on display

Tortie cat Cleo scowling and clamping both paws down on a tatty bit of grass that some intolerable human is trying to take from her

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· May 30

Backrooms, Obsession AND Passenger all in the local cinema this week? Good time to be an enjoyer of creepy shizz. Backrooms first. Review: batshit/10. Worth the big screen experience.

Chiwetel Ejiofor wandering through a weird sterile office-like environment in Backrooms, as seen on a cinema screen with seats and the top of some bloke's head in the foreground

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· May 26

In case your timeline wasn't already full of Brits complaining it's too hot, it is too hot. Definitely too hot for Arsehole the cat, who now has a fan to keep her substantial mass cool.

Chonky tabby cat sprawled on an ironing board with her habitual disdainful expression despite the fan blowing nice cool air into her face

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· May 23

#Caturday pic of Void Baby who, as you can see, is increasingly resentful of having his picture taken at all

Young black cat stretched out along the back of a sofa, scowling, with a blurry tail that accurately implies thrashing

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· May 22

The best way. On holiday last week my fave thing about the apartment was the big gull nesting overhead, who would yell to have breakfast thrown into her gob whenever she saw anyone on the balcony.

Portia the Porto gull in her rooftop nest, with the fly-by-night father of her children (presumably) on the other side of the frame

Closer shot of Portia the Porto gull giving everyone the eye from her scraggly rooftop nest between two air con units

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· May 19

I mean, it seems almost rude that Porto is this pretty. Look at it FFS.

View across Vila Nova de Gaia rooftops towards Porto, with cable cars passing overhead and holiday read The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida on the balcony

Igreja de Santo Ildefonso, just one of the churches on the streets of Porto plastered with blue-and-white azulejo tiles by some absolute historical mad lads

View across a landscaped garden from the Jardins do Palácio de Cristal, with tiled artwork of the same view framed in the foreground because they do love a tile

Porto's Dom Luís I Bridge by night, lit up and reflected in the Douro river behind a row of cafe tables

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· May 17

When in Porto...

Pastel de nata, lemonade and Porto cap against a leafy backdrop at Manteigaria, Porto

Pastel de nata at Nata Lisboa coffee shop, Matosinhos, Porto

Two pastels de nata and a menu in case you want something other than pastels de nata at At Street.Coffee, Porto

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· May 4

Took 40 years but I've just seen Highlander on a cinema screen. Briefly, all is right with the world.

BBFC rating screen for Highlander, still holding its 15 rating after all this time, probably because of the decapitation and that

A long shot from Highlander showing the Clan MacLeod heading out to battle, just before it all goes suboptimal for your boy Connor

A shot from Highlander showing Sean Connery as Ramirez, the Scottish-sounding Egyptian from Spain, holding his sword to the neck of Christopher Lambert as MacLeod, the French-sounding native Highlander

A shot from Highlander showing Clancy Brown as the scarred, stapled and shaven-headed Kurgan, still one of the best to do it

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Apr 26

Contributor copies of General Witchfinders 'Zine #4 looking ruddy stunning. Look at the artwork for this li'l story! Hope you consider grabbing a copy (maybe at the launch event on May 5th if you're down Dorset way - I can't make it BUT YOU SHOULD) @generalwitch.bsky.social @rablackart.bsky.social

Two shiny print copies of General Witchfinders horror zine issue 4 with a bright and cheerful fungus-riddled bunny on the cover

General Witchfinders issue 4 open to a story called 'Emergence Services' with gorgeous moody folk horror illustrations around text that's been blurred by some absolute savage

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Apr 19

Climbed some big rocks. Saw some cute lambs. Bought some criminally priced ice cream.

Rock outcrop in The Roaches overlooking the Peak District countryside

Rock outcrop in The Roaches with a youth on top electing to walk away from the sheer drop

Chonky mama sheep grazing next to a gangly lamb with black feet, ears and nose

Weathered signpost pointing to The Roaches main path, and an ice cream van on the side of the road shamelessly robbing hikers

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Apr 12

This year is just relentless. Rest easy, Oscar. It's going to take some time to make sense of a world without this sweet-natured old soul in it.

Handsome old ginger cat Oscar hopping up on the doorstep and sticking his tongue out at the camera, just a few months ago

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Apr 6

Blue skies and sunshine? On a bank holiday? In this economy?

Electricity pylon standing in a field against a bright blue sky with aesthetically pleasing clouds all swirling around and that

Two ducks on a canal path, strutting away like divas from my offering of out-of-date bread, not pictured

Canal boat with some sort of swivel-eyed gargoyle or red dragon made of tyres on the front, I took a picture and did not question it

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Apr 4

Celebratory #Caturday pic of returning wanderer Void Baby. I don't even mind that he's gone straight back to cacking under the bed as long as he doesn't despawn in the middle of the night and traumatise us all over again.

Cheeky young black cat sitting like a roast chicken on top of a new toy that he's unhelpfully not letting anyone open

Leigh Loveday@leighloveday· Apr 1

12 days after going missing, 10 days after a traumatic failed rescue attempt from a railway embankment, Void Baby has finally made it back home to us (and his largely unimpressed mum). I have felt All The Emotions. Hug your pets, folks. Came within a hair's breadth of never seeing this lad again.