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Dusting this lot must be a bit like painting the Forth Bridge: just as you reach the end it’s time to start all over again. But a little dust is nothing compared to the pleasure the collector gets from the thousands of knick-knacks on show in her home.

Every conceivable surface in the 1950s semi is covered with the treasures the 81-year-old owner has spent a lifetime foraging for at car boot and jumble sales. In the utility room, you can just make out the sink in the corner, surrounded by miniature bottles of coloured sand. More than 150 clocks tick tock away in the sitting room, watched by countless Toby jugs. Five hundred Chinese pandas are crammed on to a set of shelves. Another room is given over to plastic and ceramic pigs, cows, rabbits, deer and elephants — all neatly arranged in categories.

The collector, a widow from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, who asks to be known only as Hazel, has lived in the house since 1955 and says she lost count long ago of how many items she has in total. Her husband John, who made the shelves for her, died this year. She admits the dusting has become a problem now she has to do it all on her own but she still does it ‘without fail’. Changing the clocks is also ‘a bit of a nuisance’, she added.

Her collection may be precious but she is far from precious about its future. “When I go I’ve told my grandchildren to just get a large wheelbarrow, fill it with all these ornaments, wheel it down the slipway to the sea and get rid of them.”

SOURCE: DAILYMAIL.CO.UK

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Two goldfish have become the smallest and hardiest survivors of the devastating February earthquake in Christchurch, Newzealand that killed 181 people.

The fish, named Shaggy and Daphne after characters from the animated television show Scooby Doo, spent four and a half months — 134 days — trapped in their tank in the city’s off-limits downtown without anyone to feed them or even any electricity to power their tank filter before they were discovered this month and rescued. Luckily for the fish, they lived in a large 26-gallon tank and may have gleaned some nutrition from eating algae growing on the tank’s rocks and walls. “It’s certainly an incredible story. I wouldn’t have guessed that fish could survive on their own for four months,” said Paul Clarkson, curator at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. “Goldfish are very hardy critters.” He said naturally growing bacteria may have helped keep the water clean enough to sustain life.

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