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Hello to all Siamese Cat Club members
This page will be for anything to do with belonging to the club.
If you would like to put a link to your website or advertise your
e mail address here please send in details,
If you would like to advertise your kittens available for new homes (with pictures as well),let us know-there is a page just for this.
If there are any announcements we want to make,they will be on this page.
 

MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTIONS

Club subscriptions are due on the  1st January annually.They are £5 single,£7 joint plus £1.50 if you would like to receive our annual Newsletter(£2.50 overseas) and should be sent to our Treasurer here.We now have a standing order facility and if you would like to use this please ask the Treasurer for a form
Although subs are due on the 1st of January it would help us if you could make your payments on the 5th January.
 

SUPREME SHOW CATALOGUE ADVERTISEMENT

As it has become harder to find  sufficient members wanting to take Breeders cards in the Supreme catalogue, we now have just a single page advertisement  shared between the Club and the Welfare. However if you would like to continue to have a similar style card on the website please e mail your details to the address at the bottom of the page.This is a free service for members and is currently being redone

OBITUARY FOR MRS ISOBEL KEENE 1901-2010

It is a matter of considerable sadness to me that after just a few short months of my having written a piece for the Siamese Cat Club magazine about the amazing Mrs Keene, I now have the unenviable task of writing an obituary for her, honoured though I am to have been asked to do so.
I think that once she had attained the extraordinary age of 109, many of us felt that Mrs Keene, unlike the rest of us mere mortals, was somehow indestructible, that she would go on forever. Reality, however, broke through as it is wont to do when, on a grey Sunday morning on the last day of February 2010, Isobel died peacefully in her sleep. She left a world which had changed profoundly from that into which she had been born. During her amazingly long life time, she had witnessed two World Wars, lived during the reigns of six monarchs and the terms of office of twenty prime ministers. More importantly for members of the Cat Fancy and certainly for Mrs Keene herself, her death brings the end of an era, for she was part of the Golden Age of seal point Siamese breeding, carrying on the breeding traditions of Greta Hindley, Elsie Kent and Phyllis Holroyd and producing, with cats such as Killdown Sultan, Killdown Vanguard and Killdown Kerry, champion after champion throughout the sixties, seventies and into the eighties. Make no mistake about it, Mrs Keene’s cats were quite magnificent – typey, but not overly so, with glorious powerful bodies, true Seal points, exquisite eye colour and perfect ear placement.
On a personal level, always in high heels, immaculately dressed and made up, Mrs Keene was charming, compassionate, level headed, brave and possessed of extraordinary energy. I remember that once when I was with her, my car broke down and we had to wait for several hours in a pub car park for the AA to come. I expected she would become irritated and fretful. She was, after all, in her late eighties at the time. But not a bit of it. She remained far more cheerful and stoical than I did. Again, years ago, I fled to her when I had driven my car not once, but twice, into a Rolls Royce belonging to my husband. I vowed I was never going back home. Cool as a cucumber, Isobel welcomed me in and dealt with my understandably irate husband.As her health and her eyesight began to fail over the past few years, I would visit her every other Sunday, sit with her and read out snippets from the Sunday Express. She relished scandal but not just any old scandal - no pop stars or footballers for her- it had to be about royalty or, at a pinch, politicians. She was a huge fan of the Queen Mother and I suspect that she viewed her as something of a role model although Isobel was herself far prettier, with a good figure and sublime legs.I have known her for more than half my life and I loved her.
May she rest in peace.
Geraldine Houser

OBITUARIES FOR MRS ELIZABETH(BETSY)BIGGIE

Elizabeth had served on the Siamese Cat Club Committee since the 1960’s and had on behalf of the Club served as Chairman,Vice Chairman and Represented the Club on the SCJAC and GCCF as Representative and Delegate for many years. Elizabeth was a senior Judge of Siamese and had been since 1973 and also  Full Judge of many other breeds.Her knowledge and input to the Club was enormous, and she will be greatly missed, rarely missing a meeting. We were delighted when she was elected to be our President, and know she was very honoured to hold this post.. Elizabeth bred over the years many Champions and beautiful cats under her Prefix Linton, Blue points being her favourites.
When finishing judging she was always around to speak and guide exhibitors, particularly novices and to impart her knowledge as a breeder and past exhibitor – despite being a judge she continued to show Siamese for many years. In the latter years she still owned Siamese which she adored. One in the last year got lost and Elizabeth sat in a chair at the front door all night for several nights calling her until eventually her beloved pet found her way home. We shall miss her dry sense of humour and her being with us, and will forever be honoured to have served with her on Committee. The Chairman, Committee and members send their deepest sympathy to her family at this very sad time.
THE SIAMESE CAT CLUB

I first met Elizabeth in the early 1970s when a novice exhibitor, and was fortunate to become friends with her when I joined the SCC Committee. Over the years if we were judging at the same show, we travelled together, had our meals together and enjoyed each others company – discussing all the cats we had judged during the day. Elizabeth had a dry sense of humour which was much appreciated, especially on the long journeys by rail and road. So many comical incidents happened when we were travelling which made our trips that much more enjoyable. Sadly due to her health, she was unable to judge as she would have wished and I know just how much she missed the cats and fellow judges. The last time she judged was at 2008 SCC Show when she was fortunate to have her son Jamie and his wife Judy to bring her to the show and steward for her – which made up for the times she was unable to judge.
Under her Prefix Linton she bred and showed many cats, making them into Champions – which produced very many prize winning offspring . Elizabeth adored her Siamese and always said what would life be without them. Despite not breeding Elizabeth still had Siamese girls as pets who gave her much joy. I consider I was fortunate to have known her for so many years and will miss not chatting to her on the phone and trying to keep her up to speed with the Fancy.
My deepest sympathy to her family.
Jean Murchison.

THE CLUB STUD BOOK

2/08 As the stud list is getting on for 3 years old it is currently being redone and will be unavailable for a while but you are welcome to submit any amendments you may want to make

A new edition of the club stud book for Siamese and Balinese cats only is now available.If you would like your boy included or want to check or alter your current listing,please contact Brigid Oakley on this page or you can use the form  HERE.The new list will be ongoing,so new entries or changes to existing ones can be done at anytime and an amendment will be issued via e mail rather than waiting for a reprint of the whole list.There are 2 parts to the Siamese section of the new list.One for cats with a 5 generation Siamese pedigree and one for cats that include Oriental cats in their pedigree.

 

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Please send your communications or comments to brigid@siamesecatclub.co.uk or telephone 020 8464 8857