Brum vs Belfast #10: Faunography
Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, June 29th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: belfast, belfastcastle, brumvsbelfast, catgarden, faunography, peteashton
There’s a surprising amount of animal life on the urban streets of Digbeth. So much so, I made a map out of it with the help of Pete Ashton’s photography:
I wasn’t expecting to find much faunography in Belfast. How wrong I was. Imagine my delight at discovering Belfast Castle’s Cat Garden, a testament to an old story that a white cat has always lived there. It’s a beautifully kept garden with 9 felines – mosaic cats, sculptured cats, hedge cats…
Unsurprisingly, dogs are not permitted in the garden.
It was upon visiting this garden and getting near deafened by mine and Karen’s high-pitched squeals that our poor taxi tour driver learnt the difference between us lesser-spotted bloggers and the more common-garden, journalist-on-a-press-trip fodder. It’s a garden full of cats. KITTEHS. Belfast wins.
