Guest Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air......... ITS A GOAL!!! ' ... not if its West Ham its not!! ~Scuse me - own goals still count And it is 1 all now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murdo Posted March 15, 2006 Author Share Posted March 15, 2006 How much are my Eglu running costs. 300 Egg s today. From 3 chickens in 133 days Oh my. I've just realised. My entire publication is based around a mark I Eglu. I shall have to rework the whole thing, or this could be the end of my career as a pundit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken on a mission Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Not only did this have my sides aching (my degree is in economic & social history) but it also had snortiing like a pig too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Sorry to cause all the trouble Murdo - its my purple age that does it. MKII plus run convertor and a new set of roosting bars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellcat Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Sorry to cause all the trouble Murdo - its my purple age that does it. as in 'when I am an old woman....' love that poem. PS: used to date a guy who supported the hammers. Its the only footie ground I have graced with my bum on a seat for a match! (He was a fan and used to call them West Ham Nil!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Yup that's me - the old purple woman! And my seat has graced a West Ham seat too! West Ham hadn't won a match for weeks and weeks and weeks, home or away. I went and they won 2 - 0 and Julian Dicks was the captain, and scored a goal from 30 yards. My newly wed husband was so surprised when I jumped up shouting JULIE-EEEEERRRRNNNNN JULIE-EEEEERRRRRNNNNN as I am a rather lady like old lady (and don't believe a thing Clare Taylor tells you to the contrary). I also took great delight in standing up and pointing with the hordes of fans shouting TWOOOOOOOO NIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLL TWOOOOOOOOOO NEIIIIILLLLLL He hasn't taken me since. - We have subtle ways of doing things us purple ladies He only took me to Lords once to see the cricket too!! So now I get to not go -------- bliss. Bit of a pain tonight though, it went into extra time, so I never got to see the recording of Jimmy's Farm - still OH is out bowling tomorrow night, so I will just have to watch it then won't I. In peace and with some Green and Blacks to console myself for his absence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Bit of a pain tonight though, it went into extra time, so I never got to see the recording of Jimmy's Farm - still OH is out bowling tomorrow night, so I will just have to watch it then won't I. In peace and with some Green and Blacks to console myself for his absence. [/color] Oh its a tough job isnt it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Sure was - I HAD to take a rest after lunch and snuggle on the sofa with OH to watch it. G&B banned as we need to lose 6lb after all my cooking. So for lunch we are having, home made Apple and Pork sausages, two eggs each (getting an egg mountain) and a door step of my homemade wholemeal loaf with toastes sesame seeds in it which I am now just off to start Might not be good for the waistline, but on a freesing, battleship grey day, with snow, and aching like crazy due to over enthusiastic hedge and hide building duties for by adopted Dilly, Pumpking and Freckles, I need it. So think of my dunking a big fat soldier into a huge orangey gloopy yolk, with a dollop of ketchup on the side, in my little conservatory, looking out onto Adelaide, Ginger, and KoKKo, and if they venture out of the hedge, Dilly, Freckles and Pumpkin - won't you. Really good for the soul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 *sigh* *contented smile* Life cant get much better can it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 There is only one way that it could - lunch is at 12.30 shall I set another place? After all it is Friday! You should be here to smell the aroma of the bread rising - i just love that smell. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm Heaven, I'm in heaven, And my heart beats so........ Well I am an old lady married to and even older man, so I do know some of these songs...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Oh yes PLEASE - fresh baked bread - LOVELY!! Paul is Coelliac and gluten free bread tends to be better used as a deadly weapon, so I have to make do with walking past bakers and sniffing. I'm Melanie and I am addicted to the smell of fresh bread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Yesterday I made some body and face cream with beeswax, cocoa butter, and shea butter with some different oils. I wonder if I find some very essential oil called fresh made bread aroma and make some for you. You could walk around all day with that 'feel good factor ' and everyone would be stopped in their tracks and drooling as you walked past. I can see that you would have the Pied Piper effect on everyone you met -and I could make a fortune selling Melanie's Massage Bread and Butter Body Cream...... A little reserach called for methinks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mel (& Paul) Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Especially for you Kooringa When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells and run my stick along the public railings and make up for the sobriety of my youth. I shall go out in my slippers in the rain and pick the flowers in other people's gardens and learn to spit. You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat and eat three pounds of sausages at a go or only bread and pickles for a week and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes. But now we must have clothes that keep us dry and pay our rent and not swear in the street and set a good example for the children. We must have friends to dinner and read the papers. But maybe I ought to practice a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motherhen Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Just to get back to the topic Having listened to the Today Programme on the radio talking about 'loans' to Labour Party, I think we need to be more modern and creative in some of the costings mentioned re eglu and hens. First - any alterations to the garden such as fencing etc should be counted as gardening expenses - so no influence on eglu profitability. Amount earned by hens re grass cutting should be costed at rate of professional gardener Any expenses for food and treats for hens other than grit and layers pellets/mash are due to their having duel function of pets as well as commercial egg prodution units, so these costs exempt from eglu profitability calculation. Ditto with vets expenses which relate to pet rather than laying function of hens. Function of hens as kitchen waste disposal units should be calculated at same level as general waste disposal costs at Sellafield Production of valuable nitogenous fertiliser compound - value to be calculated based on 1:10 mix with cheapest coir fibre, product to be packaged in UK so it can be sold as a UK product containing top quality organic fertiliser produced from happy hens (no mention of course of child labour involved in coir production) The earning potential from hen poop will exceed that of eggs, so all hens that are 'resting' from laying are productive units. Value of stress reducing value of listening to hens gently clucking to be equated with financial equivalent of Harley Street Psychotherapist. I think that just about covers everything, but I'm sure I've missed something which we can estimate as worth £500 per hen per year. This makes having an eglu and hens so profitable that banks will be queuing up to 'lend' us money to purchase more eglus - the interest payable to be added to the 'loan' Martin - in addition you should inform your parents that if you were to have an eglu and hens at the beginning of the Easter holidays, this will keep you fully occupied and they will save significant amounts of money in not having to pay for your entertainment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Very impressive - Motherhen for chancellor of the eggs-checker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Very impressive - Motherhen for chancellor of the eggs-checker Absolutely brilliant Mother Hen - just great - I am going to print that off and stick it on the wall. I will first cover it with that plastic stuff that you put through the machine wot heats up and seals it. The When I get Older poem was about me by the way - and losing one's memory over silly little things is all part of the down side which is not fun. Just as I press the submit button thingy the word will come to me - too late. Anyway one and all - I have not learnt to spit yet = but if I run out of things to do up my allotment, I might have a go! Just made two cartons of fresh butter and off to use to butter milk for scones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 You are just so industrious! (Mind you I am doing reports on pollution (whoo hooo!) spending time on the forum (yes, really!) and cooking loads of meal to freeze - lamb and bean casserole, curries, lasagnes etc - aint I the domestic goddess (must ignore the dust around the skirting boards........) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Paul will be so impressed. Lasagne - home made pasta or course? With all those eggs you get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 umm no Gluten free. - and not sure what home made gluten free lasagne would turn out like - another deadly weapon I would assume. Eggs tend to be eaten poached / fried / scrambled / boiled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monique Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 That poem is very funny!!! (I'm assuming it's a poem). What should be added to it though is: driving at 50 m/h on the middle lane of the motorway and at 25 m/h everywhere else! I'm looking forward to it, although I started wearing a lot of purple recently. Maybe it's because I don't have children, so I can be as eccentric as I like... On egg economics; I sell about 2 boxes each week at work @ £1 per 6, so my girls earn their own treat money. That's a big bag of mixed grains and warm porridge (with water) and currents on a cold afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 [quote On egg economics; I sell about 2 boxes each week at work @ £1 per 6, so my girls earn their own treat money. That's a big bag of mixed grains and warm porridge (with water) and currents on a cold afternoon. Blimey do your chooks lay golden eggs. Around here- in the country - you get eggs for £1 a tray! Usually they are 60p half a dozen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellcat Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 No, we sell at £1 per 6 too! Ians got a waiting list at work - apart from salmonella man! (see salmonella thread) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monique Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Free range organic eggs in the supermarket are £1.45 per 6, so it's a bargain. And once they tasted fresh eggs and seen how dark yellow the yolk can be, they keep coming back for more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
