Chocolate Forum
Chat => General => Topic started by: loulou on March 08, 2009, 02:40:50 pm
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A "cat woman" who collected a tin of cat food for every day of her first 50 years of life has donated the tins to charity.
Six years ago Ella Christopher set herself the target of raising the equivalent of one tin for every day of her life, including leap years.
Ms Christopher from Boscombe, Dorset, has now donated all 18,262 tins to the Bournemouth branch of Cats Protection.
The charity worker from Boscombe in Dorset is known locally as "cat woman".
will the catfood not have gone off?
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You would actually be surprised at just how long food when properly packaged can last.
Sometimes I think that they deliberately give food a short shelf life on purpose to make us buy more and often.
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If she's only been collecting for 6 years I could believe tinned cat food still being edible after that time (for a cat mind :) )
Is she known locally as Cat woman for collecting the food, having cats of her own, feeding strays, or looking like eartha kit?
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Do the lack of capitals indicate rhyming slang, chocadmin?
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If she's only been collecting for 6 years I could believe tinned cat food still being edible after that time (for a cat mind :) )
Is she known locally as Cat woman for collecting the food, having cats of her own, feeding strays, or looking like eartha kit?
for collecting tins of cat food.
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They are telling lies, its actually 49.99 years, she still has a few tins to go... :D
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I once knew a man who used to buy unlabelled tins from a market to eat himself.
I'll bet his dinner times were interesting!
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spam and apricots.
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Kennomeat and asparagus!
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I once knew a man who used to buy unlabelled tins from a market to eat himself.
I'll bet his dinner times were interesting!
Lucky dip dinner eh?
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pilchards and custard
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Isn't that a cartoon?
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rhubarb and custard was a very bad cartoon that hurt my eyes.
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I once knew a man who used to buy unlabelled tins from a market to eat himself.
I'll bet his dinner times were interesting!
Lucky dip dinner eh?
I'll bet it wasn't always good luck either.
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prunes and meatballs
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That's very visual of you, Lou.
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I adore cats. We have three. Old Uncle Charlie who is a huge, grey, fluffy, bad-tempered puss and two little sisters; Masie and Maggie, who are five months old and naughty kitties. They shin up the curtains, leap from coffee table to dresser and hurl themselves from the top landing to the middle of the stairs.
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I only have one cat now, Martha and she is 11. I love her so much. Last night she got into bed with me and was like a little hot water bottle cuddled into my back.
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Ah, what a lovely name for a lady cat. She sounds lovely.
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since my cat did 18 months ago, i just haven't been able to get another one. i feel kind of 'unfaithful' if i got a replacement, in some weird way. (i think i may need some therapy.)
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We felt like that when we lost dear old Casper, our huge old ginger tom that we called our 'hippopotopus'. Casper and Charlie rarely took any notice of each other (Charlie 'adopted' us when neighbours didn't care for him properly) except to snarl occasionally when one crossed the other's path. However, they always fed side by side without any battles! When Casper died, Charlie seemed to mourn. We were surprised. It took over a year to pluck up courage to get the 'girliwhirlies' as I call them but they have brought so much joy (and destruction!) to our home.
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Is she known locally as Cat woman for collecting the food, having cats of her own, feeding strays, or looking like eartha kit?
Well that's where I work and I thought I knew pretty much all the local 'characters' but I've never heard of her.
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She'll be in your library up the adult cat section.
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She probably sleeps in the corner like half the population (and the staff....).
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Unfortunately Cats where I live are sport for the hoodies.
Whenever I see a "LOST" poster of a cat, I know that the kitty anit no more.
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Did you know that ALL Cat/Dog food must be fit for human to eat!"
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I think I'll pass on that one. I'm not Paul Newman, you know!
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Yep, the pet foods must be fit for human consumption.
Goes back to the cold war I believe, maybe further back than that, if were in a nuclear strike and the food sources have been contaminated, what is left if you can not grow your own?
Chocolate coated Bonio anyone?
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Bonio is a prize tosser! Oh, we're not talking about the vocalist of U2?
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Unfortunately Cats where I live are sport for the hoodies.
Whenever I see a "LOST" poster of a cat, I know that the kitty anit no more.
Maybe the cats end up in your chinese as chicken curry.
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Not likely, having heard conversations on the subject of meeting up as their mates place coz dae az got dem a cat, know what I mean. Then discuss their mates pit bull. Few days later the posters get put up.
These hoodie lot hang out at an underpass that runs directly under my kitchen window, when I am sat at my PC, I can hear the conversations.
You would be surprised at what I hear and when its cruelty sports, they are graphic like when two dogs were set on on cat and ripped it to bits in seconds according to the one hoodie.
My Ex's cat got done that way and I believe that was a dig at me because I had a run in with a local gang, no mistaking the wounds he had.
Shocking that kids are involved in such sports.
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Yep, my brother is a bit of a thug and one of his pastimes was setting his Staffie on unwary cats. He boasted to me how they used to get ripped to shreds.
I would just like to say that I am nothing like my thuggy brother and am at this moment disseminating Doctor Faustus and being all arty about Cezanne. How we came from the same pod is anyone's guess!
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Well todays conversation is about how one of them known as "Sharkie" has got dem a bit of heat and they are going off to some place to shoot some thing. Prolly off to woodthrope park to take pot shots at whatever wildlife they can see.