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Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Mark on July 12, 2009, 23:57:44 PM
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OH bought the cats some new blankets today. Some of them are really thick and intricate and probably take a good few days to make + the wool but they were 50p each :Crazy: - OH gave £5 for 4.
Alice has taken to one already :Luv2:
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:Luv: always the pud who knows where she can draw warmth. Love that!
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Aww bless Alice, cant get over how much she looks like my Daisy Doo Doo.
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Alice could be her granny :evillaugh:
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Alice could be her granny :evillaugh:
Aww bless, sure Alice would prefer you to say 'seperated at birth' :Luv2:
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What a beautiful model Alice is :Luv: the blankets look cosy too!
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Alice could be her granny :evillaugh:
Aww bless, sure Alice would prefer you to say 'seperated at birth' :Luv2:
I suppose a cat's granny only has to be a year older :sneaky:
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Looks nice and soft and cosy Mark.
Mary
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It is on top of some dog pads already on the window ledge (£12.99 in TK Maxx ;D ). I am sure they are more comfortable than us :Crazy:
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Aw Alice is gorgeous, not frightened to try out the new blankie! :Luv: :hug:
Defo think Daisy and you have twins! (twin cats that is! :evillaugh:)
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Aw Alice looks lovely on her new blankie ;D
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50 pence each, from where?
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They are all nice but OH wouldn't allow me to pay 50p for so much work. Christine & I were talking about this the other week.
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50 pence each, from where?
Rhodes Minnis (Kent) summer open day - they have a lots of stalls selling stuff really cheap. The book stall was 20p for a paperback and 25p for a hardback. Something I tried to do last year I attempted again this year. Our local 2nd hand book seller a few doors from me said he will pay more than that and he will buy in bulk so everyone wins ;D - It is a crime that people spend so long making a blanket for so little - at the same time, they are helping. Just a shame they don't fetch more money. Even our CP fairs only charge £1 :Crazy: - People don't want to pay much for things. I went to one of our fairs a couple of years ago. There was an old couple. The man picked up a plastic jug and said "how much" Sally told him 10p or something - he examined it like it was a rare item and asked his wife what she thought before finally paying :Crazy:
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The man picked up a plastic jug and said "how much" Sally told him 10p or something - he examined it like it was a rare item and asked his wife what she thought before finally paying :Crazy:
I know the cheaper something is the more people are suspect :Crazy:
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but if it was a £1, he wouldn't buy it so you can't win :evillaugh:
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I know what you mean Mark, we did a car boot sale last year and people were so funny, we were selling quite good stuff, OK not priceless antiques, but OK stuff, I had a conversation with a woman who was haggling with me over a brand new pair of shoes from Jones the Bootmaker that had cost me well over £50 and I had never worn because they were too high, I had them priced at £2 and she only wanted to pay 50p ! I ended up selling them for 75p but the haggling was not really worth it, I should have just taken them to the local charity shop and have done with it. :rofl:
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I wouldn't be able to keep my gob shut :evillaugh: - some people are just so mean - even worse when the money is being raised for charity.
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Mark believe me I felt like bashing her on the head with the :censored: shoe and telling her she could have them if she was so hard up she hard to haggle over them that hard !
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I now tend to just give everything to my local cat charity (Lincoln cat care ) they all do this themselves and they have a small shop in Lincoln so i just give them stuff every time i have a clear out -which has been a lot lately as i have cleared out stuff after decorating .
I can''t be doing with haggling with people as you say -some are so mean they begrudge parting with it even for charity.
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Something else happened last week that shocked me as well. I was standing otside the herbalist shop over the road talking to the owner. She was showing me some azec type plaster masks she had been given by a restarant that closed down. A man from another charity shop over the road (a childrens charity) went past, and she asked him if he wanted them for the shop - he said he wanted them for himself >:( - about a day later, I went out the house with some stuff for the Red Cross shop and she was outside her shop and called out "What have you got there?" - I said it was some stuff for the charity shop - she asked to have a look to see if there was anything she wanted first >:(
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I went into a charity shop and picked up 3 x new mothercare cotton baby blankets for 50p each today. Great for the summer :) - we shouldn't need any new blankets for a while :Crazy:
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Oooo Mark, you are doing well on the blanket front, I never find any nice ones round here, I might have to come for a visit down you way x
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I got them in Broadstairs in the hospice shop. Amazing that nobody bought these proper blankets, yet most people buy fleece ones :Crazy:
They are nice & cool for the summer :)
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Alice wanted you to see one of her new baby blankets :evillaugh:
Just noticed her ear looks :sick: in the bottom pic - I have never had to clean a cats ears before - how? :evillaugh:
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Looking as pretty as ever bless her :Luv2: :Luv2:
Never cleaned cat ears myself Mark but I would suggest a piece of cotton wool dipped in luke warm water.
Mary
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I do cat ears and eyes every morning ! :-[
I use cotton wool balls just damp with water
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I do Willow's eyes but I'm frightened of damaging ears
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Tiggy's ears used to get very waxy, I think when they get to a certain age they stop caring about extremeties :evillaugh: I used to wipe them with a fragrance free baby wipe, I think I'd be more wary of cleaning eyes than ears.
Alice is beautiful BTW, love her blanket too :)
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Thanks - I might give it a go tomorrow :scared: