Hello, my name is Margaret, I live in South Derbyshire, I'm married to Keith, I have two grown up daughters and one treasured granddaughter, an Irish Terrier and my beloved Abys. I was raised in a farming community and had many animals both farm
and domestic, but it wasn't until 1988 that I had my first pedigree cat, a Chocolate Point Siamese, Taimoon Flo Jo, bred by my friend Janice Clark.
Whilst showing her at the Notts. & Derby Cat Club show in 1989, I asked my daughter Shona to go look
at the cats on show, as she was desperate for one to show herself. Off she went with catalogue in hand to check names and breeds. She came back very excited, to say that she'd seen a cat she had fallen in love with. The cat in question was Mrs. Brown's Robstein
Sandpiper.
From that moment we decided that was the cat for us, one of oldest breeds of cat --the wonderful Abyssinian.