Gabby

@gabliotecaria

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Gabby@gabliotecaria· 24d

🫂🫂🫂 sending floof

Chibi, a plump tuxedo cat, lays on his side on a beige carpet. His floofy belly is poofing out invitingly (it's never a trap with him)

Gabby@gabliotecaria· 25d

Oh and if your heartstrings aren't pulled by this one you should check you have a soul.

Ginger Finds a Home by Charlotte Voake, showing a scraggy ginger cat behind a rubbish bin and rubbish scattered on the floor

Gabby@gabliotecaria· 25d

No one's put Mog in yet and she is *theee* cat, peerlessly written and illustrated by the legendary Judith Kerr. We've all had a Mog (ours was Pickles) 💖 every time we boil eggs in this house we say "a lovely egg" and think of Mog 🤗

Cover of Mog the Forgetful Cat by Judith Kerr, showing a perplexed grey tabby cat with white bib and paws. She's sitting in some bushes and probably doesn't know how she got there, bless her heart

Gabby@gabliotecaria· 25d

THE VERY BEST (my precious, beloved, autographed Varjak Paw by the glorious @whatsfsaid.bsky.social and @davemckean.bsky.social and the series that kept our family's bedtime snuggle-reads going for YEARS, Warriors by Erin Hunter)

The iconic cover of Varjak Paw by SF Said and Dave McKean showing Varjak, a black cat with glowing amber eyes, on an amber background

The autographed title page of Varjak Paw with a hand-drawn black cat and the inscription "to Mark and Gabby, keep the way alive!" and both Dave McKean's and SF David's signatures

The cover fir Erin Hunter's Into the Wild, the first volume in the mega series, showing Firepaw, a ginger kitty with green eyes, stalking through the grass

Gabby@gabliotecaria· 28d

Paws in for Morgan and Morgan's people 🐾

Suki, a white and black cat, extends a front paw. Eyes closed, sending good energy

Gabby@gabliotecaria· 29d

Morning, campers! What are we reading this week to distract ourselves from the heatwave?

Graphic showing a sun on the bottom right corner on a hazy blue sky with the caption "Hey it's Monday! What are you reading?"

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jul 12

Some classics never get old: "paint me like one of your French girls"

Suki, a white and black cat, lays on her side, belly exposed, front legs artfully together and back legs splayed.

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jul 11

errrrrrrrrrrrrrr (but I'm also doing Brazilian Portuguese!)

Duolingo Japanese hiragana screen showing I've not got to the first hiragana lesson

Duolingo Japanese course screenshot showing I'm over 2/3 to level 5

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jul 10

My henna from last Sunday's Mela is still going!

Me (a light skinned Puerto Rican middle aged woman with short curly black hair and glasses) showing off the henna on my left hand. It's leaves and flowers and vines, also going up my 2 middle fingers

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jul 6

Me when there is drama

My dear departed Locke (white and black cat), holding on to his favourite catnip pouch for dear life (all paws) and an excited, interested face

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jul 5

Wish me luck remembering all this stuff hahahaha sob

Screenshot of my Duolingo Japanese course, showing I'm on section 3 unit 12: shop for clothes

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jul 3

This is a recent-ish favourite (I also love the rest of the series, even if they are a pig to shelf 😂

The glorious bright yellow cover of There Are Birds Everywhere by Britta Teckentrup , showing macaws and parrots in flight

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jul 2

Me, as my eyesight fails in the umpteenth dimly lit posh toilet:

Gowron from DS9 saying "and this we do not forgive, or FORGEEETTT"

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jul 1

Game this evening (roll on, 5pm!!) so of course I'm wearing my @ofalafel.bsky.social "Sea Lions On A Shirt" 😄

I'm (a fair-skinned Latina middle aged hobbit-bodied woman with salt and pepper curly hair) wearing an oversized Olaf Falafel "Sea Lions On A Shirt" t-shirt which shows 3 happy cartoon light blue blue sea lions playing with red and white balls on a shield (like the England team's shield). I'm grinning.

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jul 1

"Knives Out" Hetty concurs.

Hetty, a grey and black tuxedo cat sits at the Christmas table with a sharp knife pointed at the camera, next to a glass of bucks fizz. Her face says, "Really. Say that again, motherfucker. I fucking dare you."

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 29

Sending you a fierce Hetty (to help you get things done) and a peaceful happy Hetty (the life I wish for you) 💖

Hetty, a grey tabby cat, fiercely biting and clawing my black fitflop

Hetty lays belly up, legs splayed, in the grass on a sunny but not unbearably hot day

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 27

Anyway, because I'm grumpy, here's a Chibi from last night as compensation.

Chibi, the most ridiculous tuxedo cat in existence, lays in the shade in front of my neighbour's garage, lower belly up, upper body in a relaxed twist, doing lovey eyes.

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 25

Here you go!

The same photo of Bertie as in the original post, but with a sticker of my hand as if I'm holding his extended paw.

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 25

Flanoy, is it time for this one again

Flanoy, an orange and white cat, looks at the camera suspiciously. Second photo below is the same but with the caption "BINCH" superimposed

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 24

And somehow this isn't red-warning worthy?

Met Office forecast for Friday in my area of the South East showing a high of 37° C and a low of 19° C.

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 24

Hetty inna tiny box, for @quindimarlena.bsky.social

Hetty, a grey tabby cat, sits and purrs in a tiny box

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 22

I'm still blocking a whole bunch of them while I'm there, because if their reaction is _that_, then I don't want them to find my account at all. I'm doing a lot of this face lately (h/t @gonzo.bsky.social)

Gonzo, a ginger and white cat, makes the ultimate "give me a fucking break/good grief, this fucking arsehole" face, second eyelids partially closed, mouth partially open.

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 21

Y'all will be getting nothing but variants of this from me til the heat wave breaks #RoostFam

A truly awful drawing of a sun melting into the ground, by yours truly, using the Roost scratchpad.

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 20

@quindimarlena.bsky.social current Hetty on "her" swing chair

Hetty, a grey tabby cat, sitting on a grey garden swing chair

Hetty, a grey tabby cat, now comfortable extending a front leg in said grey swing chair

Hetty, a grey tabby cat, caught mid-screm on the swing chair

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 19

LOUIE NO

Celine Dion on the phone at some kind of telethon looking concerned, with the caption "je telephone à la police"

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 18

I raise you a

Marble statue of a despairing woman wearing a crown and veil being shown a mobile screen

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 16

Current Hetty for dear @quindimarlena.bsky.social 💖 (Nd for anyone who might need a Hetty today)

Hetty, a grey tabby cat, curled relaxedly on her side, her front paws gently holding one of her back paws

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 15

HEY look who's got a second coffee on the go! ☕ Happy Monday, everyone! What are we reading this week?

A graphic showing a sun on the bottom right corner on a hazy blue sky with the caption "Hey, it's Monday! What are you reading?"

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 13

Treated myself to a laugh riot courtesy of @notmoro.bsky.social and Huw Aaron!

Jess Bradley's Squid Bits: That's A Nice Hat! featuring Red Panda with a toilet roll on his head and Unfairies: Death by Toad by Huw Aaron showing our heroes hanging into a fly and ominous toad eyes over the title

Gabby@gabliotecaria· Jun 12

I have the same conversation with my cat, but he appears to have favoured a "lounge" tux? Maybe this'll work for yours, Kate, but we'll wait for Derek's advice!