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[Jules.]

Well there's a green eglu on ebay up to £300.05 with 3 hours to go on it, so I'm slapping my eglu on ebay today. The photo won't be that good, I'll add more later - I won't have time to clean it properly but I'm ill & not up to it today- plus it's raining very hard!

I need the money from the sale of my eglu to off-set some of the cost of my cube, otherwise the cube order will have to be cancelled.The credit crunch has hit here too.

[Christian]

I bought the Sunday Times today (aka small rain forest) and cannot find the blimmin' article anywhere!!!

 

Anyone found it and can point me in the right direction?

 

Johannes called and said that a reporter from the Times was coming to my hen party yesterday. Luckily, it was too short notice for him - and me - couldn't lose 3 stone, have a facial and regrow thick luscious hair by then

Edited June 1, 2008 by Guest

[Jules.]

that has made me feel loads better

[AnnieP]

Its in the news section, page 7.

Obviously no real news out there in the real world.

[Tigerlily]

Guess what ANH? I replied regarding rats and smell etc... and they didn't put it on! How shocked am I? Typical!

 

BW x

[redfrock]

some of the comments on there are really unpleasant, and misleading, (about from those by the Omleteers!) - people really need to get a life

[Christian]

Maybe the Hampshire version is different to the Wiltshire one Annie?

 

Page 7 of news is something else Still can't find it.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

So they'll print a comment like "every s"Ooops, word censored!" should have one" but not a factual one like "chickens don't cause rats and smells".

 

 

Isn't it interesting to read a newspaper article when you know for certain the facts about the topic.

It makes me doubt the facts in every single article I ever read.

[WitchHazel]

Christian, it's in the main paper section - (the one with a picture of Lawrence Dallagio on the front). Page 7, bottom right hand side

[Tigerlily]

some of the comments on there are really unpleasant, and misleading, (about from those by the Omleteers!) - people really need to get a life

 

I totally agree Redfrock - my comments were in defence of chooks/eglus and they decide not to publish it!

I'm not a happy bunny now!

 

BWx

 

Edited to say: Yes ANH, I agree with you to! TLx

[redfrock]

 

Isn't it interesting to read a newspaper article when you know for certain the facts about the topic.

It makes me doubt the facts in every single article I ever read.

 

My parents and I read different papers (I read the Guardian / Observer, they read the Mail). I remember reading both papers one Sunday, both of which reported on the same story. I was stunned at how different the 'facts' were, according to the 2 papers. They couldn't even agree on the person's age!

[Rhapsody]

I am really annoyed. Why ring me up and ask me questions and then disregard everything? I talked to him about the Backyard Revolution, the Omlet community, food miles, the deceptions fostered by our food industry, how fox-proof and hygenic the eglu is, etc etc. I havent seen a hard copy, did any of that go to print?

[Christian]

The Sunday Times I picked up today is identical to AnnieP's but is missing the Omlet Story!

[AnnieP]

Christian and I have just conferred and it seems we have different versions of the same newspaper! His has an entirely different story where the Chicken Keeping one is.

The web based article is truly an appalling bit of editing of the one in the paper, (which is cringingly bad enough).

My favourite bit is where it discusses "Hen parties" and describes them as an activity "in which current and prospective owners gather in gardens to cuddle and talk to chickens and learn about keeping them."

 

Nice one Rhapsody! keeping up the "we're all nutters" theme eh?

 

Edit - Christian - have corrected your spelling Annie!

[matt_b]

I'm sure Hanns will be popping a response in here before long, but just to clarify: We have no plans right now to drop the price of the current Eglu, or introduce lower-cost 'Mark III'. We certainly aren't going be introducing any 'new eglus' in the next couple of months, so no need to panic about resale values.

 

The Times reporter was supposed to be doing an article on Hen Parties, but seems to have run out of time and just slapped something together from the other three articles the Times has done on us and his brief conversation with Hanns. The fact-checking and research in the article seem about on par with the grammar, to the point where they seem to have dropped the story from the late editions, thank god!

[Tigerlily]

I am really annoyed.

 

I am not surprised Rhapsody - I would be too!

 

 

 

So they'll print a comment like "every s"Ooops, word censored!" should have one"

 

That's annoyed me as well- how many working class people kept chickens in their backyards because of rationing etc in the 1930's/1940's? What a load of chicken poo! That's me being polite BTW!

 

BW x

[Rhapsody]

My favoutire bit is where it discusses "Hen parties" and decribes them as an activity "in which current and prospective owners gather in gardens to cuddle and talk to chickens and learn about keeping them."

 

That's the bit that really ground my gears- I never said ANYTHING about cuddling or talking to hens- I said I teach people to handle them safely!!!!! I have posted a comment up but he probably wont publish that either..

[Lesley]

I thought I'd slipped into a 'certain other' forum by mistake whilst reading those comments

 

They seem to have forgotten the 'more money than sense' option

 

Thanks for clarifying the situation Matt

[Stevie]

I too left a message,but it hasnt been published.I would have expected this kind of response from News of the world or The Sun perhaps cause they only want 'sensational' stories,but not The Times.

 

This cut price Eglu im guessing has got to be smaller or a normal one,but without run.Not unless they're planning to drop the prices a little,but as others have said-their sales have steadily risen since January so why? Perhaps the Times reporter was talking out of his bottom..?

[Jules.]

Thanks for the clarification matt_b.

I have still put my eglu on ebay this afternoon, just in case!

[Egluntyne]

Thanks for the clarification Matt.

 

The newspaper needs a rap over the knuckles.

 

Incidentally they chose not publish my response in defence of the Eglu either.

[Olly]

Hmm, so how many of us have posted positive comments in support of the Eglu? I went on straight away this morning just after posting on here, to say that chickens don't smell if they are properly cared for, but it has not been put up.

 

Funny that all these positive comments have been disregarded! It is a truly terrible piece of journalism though, and no wonder it's been dropped. We should all write to the editor of the Sunday Times complaining about their poor standards, although no doubt that wouldn't be published either.

 

Egluntine ... I wouldn't rise to the guy commenting about the 'two pet foxes' - I think that's very tongue-in-cheek and designed to wind up readers.

 

That's why I stick to this forum - most of the people whose posts have been published on there are the sort who post on Other Forums. The ones we don't like and won't get involved with!

[Cooks]

I posted that it was one of the worst written pieces I had ever read.. well it made me feel a little better at the time.

[hilda-and-evadne]

Chris Gourlay is a freelance journalist with "form" when it comes to writing rubbish. I guess that he couldn't find any gay sheep to report on. (Cf Sunday Times, January 2007.)

 

Here's a reaction to the gay sheep article by Gourley, on the Daily Kos blog, as I can't find the original.

 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/4/134158/4348

[Egluntyne]

Egluntine ... I wouldn't rise to the guy commenting about the 'two pet foxes' - I think that's very tongue-in-cheek and designed to wind up readers.

 

That's why I stick to this forum - most of the people whose posts have been published on there are the sort who post on Other Forums. The ones we don't like and won't get involved with!

 

Don't worry Olly , my knickers remain untwisted.