Penelope Friday (they/them)

@penthewriter

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 No alt text, no follow.

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Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· 9d

These eyes? Ares wanted to know what I was doing with my iPad!

Close up of cat face staring into the camera. His eyes are looking right at you, and his nose seems to be almost touching the camera.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· 9d

Did somebody say #WhiskersWednesday? #cats #photography

Toyger cat sitting in fluffy grey cat nest. He is looking suspiciously at the camera with one eye half closed, and has an admirable set of whiskers.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jul 9

The stare off… No, Asty and Ares are actually just chilling in the catio, this photo just caught them when they were looking at each other rather than anywhere else. #CatPhotos #cats #photography

White kitten sitting up stares at Toyger lying down on separate parts of a purpose built catio. Behind the wire, green plants (non specific) are growing.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jul 8

#Lamorna in #Cornwall - featuring a random pirate ship*, because why not? #CornwallPhotos #Photography #seascapes *if it’s not, it looks like it

Flat blue sea, with old fashioned looking two masted ship to the right of the picture, tugging a tiny boat behind it. To the left of the picture are rocky outcroppings of land, and if you squint you can see another stretch of land behind them. There’s also someone swimming in the very very foreground. Not me, though I did swim earlier.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 28

Someone is very sleeeepy and had a long morning in the sun in the catio. #cats #CatPhotos

White kitten stretched out towards camera so that there is a good view of her front paws and long front legs, with her sleeping head resting on them, while the rest of her body disappears into a duvet cover with flowers and plants on it. She has grey paws and ears, and you can just see her grey tail in the background. The duvet cover is mainly green.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 27

Um, Asty? I don’t think that’s how running machines are supposed to be used… #Caturday #kitten #CatPhotos #cats

White kitten sitting on the handles/informationy electric bit of a running machine, looking like she is Queen of the Machine. Catio visible through French window in the background.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 26

Astrophe has taken rather firmly to my son, who will willingly take allergy tablets every day in order to cuddle with the #kitten. #CatPhotos #cats

White kitten flomped out fast asleep on top of a human, between their body and arm, she is lying sideways at her head end but twisted so she is almost in her back at her back legs end, in an incredibly inelegant fashion. At the same time, her front paw is stretched out just a little bit in front of her looking ridiculously cute.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 20

Looooong kitten. #cats #kitten #CatPhotos

White kitten stretched out on her side on a bed, with her head leaning on her front paws and her legs and grey tail stretched out as far as she can reach them (so the tail falls off the end of the photograph). The duvet cover is green with flowers on it and there’s a hint that there’s a person in the bed, somewhere underneath the cover and kitten.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 15

It’s tough waking up in the morning if you’re a small kitten (or a considerably larger adult, but the photos aren’t so cute then). #cats #CatPhotos

White kitten sitting up on the arm of a sofa, yawning widely. Her little grey tail is curled around her legs.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 13

Astrophe claiming me as her own with her tail :)

Photo of white kitten taken from above, with torso and arm of human. The kitten’s tail is curled around the human’s wrist, in a “claiming” fashion, and the human’s hand is resting on the kitten. They are in bed.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 12

My older cat Ares has got to the “grooming the new kitten before curling up and falling asleep with her” stage so I think all is well with the world. #cats #CatPhotos

White kitten lying down having her head licked by a Toyger cat lying behind her. They are both on a turquoise duvet cover with a similar coloured curtain behind them.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 9

Yes, Asty has more of a British shorthair head shape. My previous cats have all had pointier faces - I had a Tonkinese in the past - so I have to admit that to me Asty’s face does look a little “squished” and I’m trying to get used to it :) (Comparison pic of Asty and Ares [toyger])

White kitten and Toyger cat touching noses to say hello. They are standing on a bed (well, the kitten is standing and the cat is sitting down, which is why the kitten looks taller).

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 8

So beautiful ❤️ Do you know, I almost said, “she’ll also lick your nose if you’re really lucky…”? Does it make your mouth tingle when yours does that or is it a weird autism thing i have? Despite Asty’s looks, she’s officially a moggy, unlike her adoptive brother who’s a Toyger.

Toyger cat with brown and black stripes looking just past the camera. He is sitting down with his paws tucked neatly under his body. There is a hand petting him from a person in the background.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 8

If you could hear Astrophe, you’d usually hear her purring if she’s anywhere near a person. The idea that she might get petted is enough to have her purring, and actually petting is very pleasing. You may get your fingers licked in return.

White kitten with her eyes mostly closed in the “I am purring contentedly” way, curled up on a black duvet cover. She has a black nose and grey ears, paws, and tail.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 8

Asty was very cuddly this morning, though she wasn’t at all sure about the camera.

White kitten with very black nose looking suspiciously at the camera. She is sitting atop a white nonbinary person, parts of whose face you can see behind her own. They have their hand on her back, scritching her.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 6

Definitely friends, they had a brief grooming session after, but it’s difficult to take decent pictures of that, especially from about a foot away…

A white kitten and a Toyger cat giving each other a brief grooming and nuzzling session.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jun 4

Did anyone call for a kitten?

Head and paw of a white kitten ooking up over the wooden side of a bed. Behind her is a bookcase and a wooden screen.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· May 31

I mentioned this is now a home for pictures of Asty, the new kitten, right? She showed that fish who was boss.

A white kitten is lying on her side, grappling with a cloth fish that is almost as long as she is. She is looking over her shoulder.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· May 29

This is now a place for pictures of my new kitten. For Reasons.

A white cat with grey ears, paws, tail, and nose about to leap off the side of a bed. Her head is down and her tail is pointing up in the air. You can see the shoulder of a white person wearing a white top (but the pillow behind them is brown and so is the back of the bed so there are some different colours in there).

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· May 24

I can haz new kitten. This is Asty (sorry, Astrophe Épée), and yesterday she was not at all pleased to be here and hid in a corner. Today, however, she wanted to purr and play.

White kitten with springy white mouse (from the middle of a cat play toy) caught up in her mouth and claw. It is clear this is Very Serious Bizniss.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· May 14

This is her friend-to-be, Ares. He is rather like Tigger: will bounce at you and not understand why you might not be pleased. I’m worried that he may find that if he’s been hissed at for it, it may mean Asty isn’t therefore willing to curl up with him later, as Zula did.

Sleepy stripy brown cat curled up with his head on his front leg, paw sticking out in front of himself.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· May 13

I have to wait another ten days to bring her home, because she’s not twelve weeks yet, but it does mean she gets extra time with her siblings..,

Four kittens are playing with a furry cord dangling from a rod. Two are white, one is light grey, and one is dark grey. In the background, you can see the legs and body of the mama cat, who is light grey like one of her sons.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· May 13

We are getting a kitten soon :) This is Asty, short for Astrophe.

Tiny beautiful white kitten with grey tail and ears and paws, standing in great contrast next to a dustpan! Which I suppose gives a useful size comparison. She comes up to the top of the pan, not including the handle.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Apr 24

You can’t get a much more typically #CornishPhoto than of a tin mine with the sea in the background. #photography #Cornwall #NorthCoast

Distinctive round chimney of a tin mine in the left foreground, with some bushes (including gorse in bloom - kissing is in season) alongside it. To the right edge of the photo is the sea, just showing behind some rolling fields; and between the mine and the bushes, in the distance you can see houses. The sky is blue-grey and has white clouds drifting across it.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Apr 17

One man and his dog on #Lamorna beach. #CornwallPhotography #Cornwall #Photography

A silhouette of a man and a dog in the edge of the sea, on a beach which has sand on the right hand side, and then rocks to the left, curling round in the background into a large cliff sticking into the sea. My spouse calls the rocky bit at the very end of the peninsula “the saddle” because there is a dip between two rocky outcrops.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Mar 18

Thanks to @angelygogledd.bsky.social for this gorgeous picture of #StIves taken today. You can see from the light why artists love it; and it looks like a picture in itself. #CornwallPhotos #photography #Cornwall

A sandy beach with a lone human walking across it. Behind him and to the top left of the photo are rocks and cliffs, rounding into the shore and sticking into the sea; to the top right, the sea comes in with little white waves. The sand is a pale gold, and there is a grey wall at the front of the picture, with a glimpse of “something” (could be a boat, could be bins…okay, it’s bins, but imagine it’s a boat, it’s more romantic) just over it on the left.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Mar 15

#StandingStoneSunday? Have a picture of my favourite, #LanyonQuoit - or as my kid called it when he was tiny, “turtle rock” because he thought it looked like a turtle with one leg fallen off (This isn’t a great angle to show that). I’ve only ever seen cows there once in my life.

Picture of moorland in front and fields in the background. In the moorland is a standing stone, comprised of three upright stones with a slab across the top. It is tall enough that a short person can stand underneath upright but a larger one would have to bend their head. For some reason, it is surrounded by cows. I’m sure they’re a particular type but all I can tell you is that they’re a gingery brown colour.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Mar 13

Now, I realise everyone else who has posted #WorstBirdPic s have actually posted pretty decent photos. However…this is a mass of gulls mobbing fishing boats and I’m posting it because it was amazing irl, but my iPad camera just wasn’t good enough to show it, so it’s hilariously terrible as a photo!

Railings in front of the sea. In the distance, just before the horizon, there are a couple of blobs surrounded by white fuzziness. The blobs are fishing boats. The fuzziness is a whole mass of birds. But you’ll have to take my word for this. The sky is grey. The picture is a washout in more ways than one.
We call these “rabbit pictures” in my household after some pictures my dad took, waiting for ages to take pictures apparently of empty scrubland, but which he insisted had rabbits all over it.

This is the same picture zoomed in on the boats and birds. There is a white wave breaking in the foreground. Further back, the boats look slightly more like boats and not just like blobs, but the birds still just look like white fuzziness. A bit like as if sea foam had accidentally come off the sea and was drifting slightly above it.
As my grandmother used to say when she’d told most of a joke and forgotten the punchline, “Well, you should have been there. You’d have roared.”

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Feb 13

Rainbow in the sky above #StMichael’sMount, taken from #Penzance. It is landing on the island, which needs the sign of hope after over 80 of the trees there were blown down in last month’s storm.

A rainbow with its end touching the castle on St Michael’s Mount. To the left of the picture is a large lamppost and across the bottom is a metal railing in front of the sea and rocky shore around Penzance lido. But most of the photo is taken up with the sky and the rainbow that arcs through it.

Penelope Friday (they/them)@penthewriter· Jan 28

A #seascape today, for a peaceful scene. #Gwythian looking towards #StIves. #Cornwall #Cornishphotos #photography