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Cat life: When I still lived with Tom Helge and before the cats invaded my life, I led an ordinary urban life in Oslo. Working hard, going to concerts a lot, travelling a lot (I love Texas! and London, and Paris, and San Francisco, and. . . Of late I have also come to like Hull a lot. . .), going out with friends etc. Things you do when you live in a big city - and then Modesty and William came.

They changed my life completely. In fact, they are the reason me and my ex moved from Oslo to Fredrikstad. We thought they needed a garden of their own . . .

It never entered my mind to try and actually breed Siamese cats. The thought started to haunt me during dark Autumn evenings in 2001. In May 2002 I got my prefix, (N) OffBeat, and the dreams about breeding started to get more real. Still, I didn't have a breeding cat, only this dream about a beautiful Siamese female that would be the starting point for my work to produce a Siamese of my own liking.

During Summer 2002 I fell in love with our SingSang, or Snopus You Sang To Me, as her formal name is. She was of course totally wrong: Neither was she a Siamese, nor was she an ordinary Oriental Shorthair. She was a silver cat! Silver is something that makes breeding even more difficult, but that was something I realised long after I had bought her.

Life is full of surprises, and SingSang proved to be one of the nicest ones. The year after SingSang came to me, I finally got my Siamese girl, Littlefeat Dixie Chick, or simply Dixie. And now I have SingSang's daughter Olivia and Dixie's daughter Harriet as well.

From a bluesfestival in Norway 2007. I am the one with the yellow hat.

Me with one of SingSang's sons at a show.