Cat woman collects 18,262 tins of catmeat.

[loulou]

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?

[netbuddy]

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.

[chocadmin]

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?

[paulham]

Do the lack of capitals indicate rhyming slang, chocadmin?

[loulou]

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.

[netbuddy]

They are telling lies, its actually 49.99 years, she still has a few tins to go...

[paulham]

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!

[loulou]

spam and apricots.

[paulham]

Kennomeat and asparagus!

[netbuddy]

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?

[loulou]

pilchards and custard

[paulham]

Isn't that a cartoon?

[loulou]

rhubarb and custard was a very bad cartoon that hurt my eyes.

[paulham]

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.

[loulou]

prunes and meatballs