hilda-and-evadne Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024291/The-latest-way-save-supermarket-bills-Keep-hens.html This article is quite well written - I imagine that the phones at Omlet will be red hot today. The author hasn't got the distinction between an eglu and a cube; she talks of the eglu coming in two sizes. But other than that ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisa33 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 So much better than the Times mess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 What a good article . That's what you need, a journo who actually owns an eglu rather than one who doesn't know an eglu from an igloo . I wonder if she wears those pristine white trousers for the Saturday morning clean out . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 What a great article! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfrock Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 much better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moochoo Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Fantastic article. Full of enthusiasm and good grammar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I thought it was lovely too. She obviously enjoys the changes to her life that the hens bave brought & it shows in her writing She got all the points about the Eglu across too, although she says it was featured on Big Brother,but I seem to remember them having a wooden coop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little chickadee Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Great article - maybe we'll see her on the forum ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Nice reading wasn't it? Much more balanced than the other article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Omlet themselves call the Cube an Eglu: see their main page in the shop: http://www.omlet.co.uk/shop/shop.php And their van shows a Cube called an Eglu So the reporter isn't wrong: the Eglu does come in two types now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty e Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Big Brother did have eglus in on season, I remember them well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Good article. It's a shame the word smug was used though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 TBH, that article was so sweet and syrupy it gave me Diabetes; that is the kind of loathsome Yummy Mummy I left South London to get away from. Yurk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Made me feel a bit sick too Rhapsody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisaroo2 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 i must admit having read it I found it abit too sweet for me as well. I' read it with a smile on my face and let out a loud 'yuk' sound when I'd finished reading it! If it promotes keeping hens, that's great. I didn't like the fact that she wanted to give us a collective name either, we've got one, 'The Omleteers!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Well I don't know about you lot but I always put my high heels on when I visit my chickens. (Apart from that it was fine I thought) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 A very good article, accurate (for once!) and she obviously loves her chooks. Must admit I hadn't realised eggs were so eggspensive - haven't bought any for over a year! (smug). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Eggs have gone up an awful lot recently -- and when you buy your next sack of pellets, you will see why. Pellets have literally doubled in price since I started buying them. The article gushed a bit, but aren't we all a bit smug with our mite-free easy-to-clean hen houses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMO Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Well I don't know about you lot but I always put my high heels on when I visit my chickens. (Apart from that it was fine I thought) And white trouseres with a smear of chicken poo is so in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I wonder if she had pink Crocs on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfrock Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 but have you seen some of the comments on there? Yet again it has become a case of 'if you haven't got anything nice to say...' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Ooh, * rushes off to read comments * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I too found it a bit sickly but I thought it was a good article - perhaps sickly fits with that section of the mail. Nice how she talked about building the area for it and how the eglu picture showed it so nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 did she really have to show off her decolletage quite so much! I'm not a prude but really, but leaning over the counter top like that, bit much really. Who was looking at the eggs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basset Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I really enjoyed reading the article, thanks for posting the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
