ok, so i enjoyed this article about the valuable carving used by the couple as a memorial to their cat...A 1,000-year-old limestone carving which lived at the bottom of an elderly couple's garden as a memorial to their cat has been sold for more than £200,000.


Johnny and Ruth Beeston had no idea of the value of the historic piece which marked the resting place of Winkle, a stray tabby they adopted.
Mr Beeston, a stonemason who found the slab in a quarry years ago, thought it would make a nice headstone and nothing more.
But today the medieval carving soared way above its estimated asking price of between £40,000 and £60,000 when it was bought by a private collector.
It was sold at Sotheby's auction house in London for £175,000, but with the buyer's premium added it cost £201,600.
The Oolithic limestone carving shows a half-length figure of St Peter with his right hand clasped to his chest and two fingers raised in benediction.
It is thought to be part of a larger panel