rachelk Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Here it is in all its plastic nastyness! It has the added bonus of crowing every time you walk past it. I've started telling it what it can do, as I walk past, in the hope it might do exactly that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majuka Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 My wonderful friend who is still looking after my hens whilst we wait for our house, bought me a smashing oiled wooden board in the shape of a chicken which has hole for your boiled egg. From M & S. Will defo be out on the kitchen work top...when we get one! I have those, they are gorgeous aren't they. Rachel, all I can say is I am very, very sorry - it really is quite hideous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squiffs Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 My OH's parents bought me a lovely draught excluder from past times with some hens and a cockerel on it saying 'the pecking order' - I have a spare room which I have the radiator turned off in because it's not used for anything except storing laundry in the airing cupboard, so I've put it against that door to stop any coldness eeking out onto the landing My aunt and uncle also bought me two beautiful glass egg cups with hens sculpted on them. And I got a blue wire basket in the shape of a duck, which is now holding some of my nail varnish on my dressing table OH... and santa got me an egg topper in my stocking I probably got a few more sneaky things that I'm forgetting! EDIT: yes, I forgot, my boss' mother in law (who buys eggs from me) bought me a huuuuuge china mug, about 7 inches tall, with various breeds of hens and cockerels on it. I've left it at work though, as it does me well, keeps the tea warm long enough for me to only need to fill it twice a day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 My dad has a frog along the same lines as the cockerel - it croaks when you go by. Can you put it outside? Am quite glad I dont have in laws if thats what they buy you. My aunt thrust my 50th birthday present at me (for February) - and then added she'd won it in a raffle (nice that - her sisters daughter) Why cant people be more tactful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Chicken oven gloves, a mug, and a lovely chicken cushion from Past Times. I have had quite a few chicken-related gifts over previous years, though, so people probably feel I have enough. I got some bee themed items, in particular a massive pair of fluffy bee slippers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Here it is in all its plastic nastyness! It has the added bonus of crowing every time you walk past it. I've started telling it what it can do, as I walk past, in the hope it might do exactly that! That is rather hideous maybe itll need to be dispatched Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeloo Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Here it is in all its plastic nastyness! It has the added bonus of crowing every time you walk past it. I've started telling it what it can do, as I walk past, in the hope it might do exactly that! Can you regift it to someone else next year as a joke or would that cause a family war? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majuka Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 That is rather hideous maybe itll need to be dispatched You could always leave it outside your front door, a jealous passer-by may steal it (if you are really lucky) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LolaLayla Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Quite vibrant isn't it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachelk Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 'Vibrant' I like that!! My mother in law has no taste whatsoever. We have had other similar presents, for our wedding anniversary we had two solar powered flashing plastic bay trees. They are pretty grim too. As are the two wooden people sitting on a wooden bench with plastic flower pots for hats, the moon and stars glow in the dark stepping stones (that disintegrated in the frost!) and the maahooosive stone boot with an ugly kitten inside it! We just have to smile sweetly and pretend we like it, while nudging each other and trying not to laugh! I am going to put it in an dark corner of the garden, and hope that the rain kills it, and then the frost makes it fall apart. It crowed at the teenage daughter this afternoon, who shouted 'and you can shut up as well!' at it - made me smile! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LolaLayla Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 What about putting it in the garden and inviting a group of young boys to play football....that activity certainly altered my moon gazing hare.....sadly I quite liked it as it was OH never did manage to glue the ears on successfully. A neighbour of mine had a talking Santa that was activated by putting your foot on the door mat.....I nearly died when I delivered the card and suddenly heard "Ho ho ho Merry Christmas" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abwsco Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 'Vibrant' I like that!! My mother in law has no taste whatsoever. We have had other similar presents, for our wedding anniversary we had two solar powered flashing plastic bay trees. They are pretty grim too. As are the two wooden people sitting on a wooden bench with plastic flower pots for hats, the moon and stars glow in the dark stepping stones (that disintegrated in the frost!) and the maahooosive stone boot with an ugly kitten inside it! We just have to smile sweetly and pretend we like it, while nudging each other and trying not to laugh! I am going to put it in an dark corner of the garden, and hope that the rain kills it, and then the frost makes it fall apart. It crowed at the teenage daughter this afternoon, who shouted 'and you can shut up as well!' at it - made me smile! Oooh, they all sound lovely Rachel Is there not an on/off swicth hidden on the cockerel somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken shack Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Here it is in all its plastic nastyness! It has the added bonus of crowing every time you walk past it. I've started telling it what it can do, as I walk past, in the hope it might do exactly that! I would put it in the garden to frighten the poor unpuspecting foxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken shack Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 'Vibrant' I like that!! My mother in law has no taste whatsoever. We have had other similar presents, for our wedding anniversary we had two solar powered flashing plastic bay trees. They are pretty grim too. As are the two wooden people sitting on a wooden bench with plastic flower pots for hats, the moon and stars glow in the dark stepping stones (that disintegrated in the frost!) and the maahooosive stone boot with an ugly kitten inside it! We just have to smile sweetly and pretend we like it, while nudging each other and trying not to laugh! I am going to put it in an dark corner of the garden, and hope that the rain kills it, and then the frost makes it fall apart. It crowed at the teenage daughter this afternoon, who shouted 'and you can shut up as well!' at it - made me smile! I have a SIL like your MIL We moved in the summer and are now 86 miles away. I suggested we stop exchanging gifts now we have moeved and they agreed. Problem solved but it has taken 30 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachelk Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 They have got one of those doormat things! I leap over it so as not to set it off. They also have a horrible plastic trainset that goes under the tree! I forgot the solar powered croaking frog!!!!! Yes it has got a switch, it will be off as soon as husband is back at work! I'm sat here sniggering at all your comments, and can't say why in case I offend him further by being rude about the old ......... (fill in the blanks yourself!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Shes got er good taste Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 No chicken themed gifts here this year, instead I seem to have received dog themed gifts including a calendar with photos of puppies asleep in teacups etc which is really not my sort of thing at all! Not as hideous as the plastic cockerel though, that really is something else! That said... I went to a get together at my friend's house on Christmas Eve and her parents were there. They kept hens until a few weeks ago when their last hen had to be PTS. They are planning to keep hens again in the future but not for another couple of years and asked if we could make use of their equipment as they don't want to store it. On boxing day they came round to our house to drop off a chicken ark, wood shavings, 2 feeders, a drinker and a whole bag of lotions, potions, tonics and sprays. Very useful indeed, and very very generous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forestchook Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Just a "I'm feeding the hens" door stop from SIL (technically my brother too but I know which one really buys the presents ). I had more last year; another door stop in the shape of a chicken (V.cute), a couple of books, and a small pot wih a rooster on it. Trouble is the door stops are too nice to put on the floor where they will get dirty Rachelk. She didn't give it too you as a joke/novelty item? Oh dear! Does it have batteries you could remove? The ones in the motion actived singing bird my great aunt and uncle gave mum a few years ago did not stay in it long! At least that was a lot more tastefully coloured and subtle, just quite annoying very quickly. N Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammiboo Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 My chicken gifts were china chicken mugs, a polka dot chicken to hols eggs with matching egg cups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachelk Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Unfortunately, yes this was our only present, not a joke! Apparently she 'couldn't resist it as I know you love chickens'!!! Teenage daughter lost her temper with it yesterday, in the way only a teenage daughter can, gave it a good shouting at and threw its batteries away - so funny Fear not, once all danger of MIL visiting has passed it will be 'lost', along with all the other things she buys us. Forgot to mention the 'goal' that you affixed to a wastepaper bin, that cheered when you threw rubbish into it. Another interesting MIL fact - she bought our two children identical presents, down to identical birthday books, that is identical to the ones she bought last year However, she gave one child £20 cash, and the other £30! How do I explain that to a disgruntled 10 year old?! Oh the joys!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mum Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 A chicken mug. Me too!!! Mine says "Hen Pecked" and its from the Past Times range Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloss-Hen Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 my sister maintained her tradition of getting me the extraordinary chickens calendar I was bought an extraordinary chicken Calender, chicken Calender 2012, a metal cockerel ornament, a chicken egg cup, A chicken note book, a chicken bookmark and a extraordinary chickens book You'd never know I liked chickens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pips_pekins Posted December 30, 2011 Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 Unfortunately, yes this was our only present, not a joke! Apparently she 'couldn't resist it as I know you love chickens'!!!Teenage daughter lost her temper with it yesterday, in the way only a teenage daughter can, gave it a good shouting at and threw its batteries away - so funny Fear not, once all danger of MIL visiting has passed it will be 'lost', along with all the other things she buys us. Forgot to mention the 'goal' that you affixed to a wastepaper bin, that cheered when you threw rubbish into it. Another interesting MIL fact - she bought our two children identical presents, down to identical birthday books, that is identical to the ones she bought last year However, she gave one child £20 cash, and the other £30! How do I explain that to a disgruntled 10 year old?! Oh the joys!!!! I have to say I'm loving the 'vibrant' chicken . It's soo tacky it is brilliant. I'm guessing the higher sum was for your teenager, if so, I can sort of see her logic but agree she should have given them the same. Your poor son, he will certainly have many tales to tell about Christmas when he is older and it sounds as though Christmas is never dull with your MIL around Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Does your OH take after his mum when it comes to presents? and have you given her any hideous presents back? A friends mum gave her a cake slice one year they rarely eat cake - another friends mad MIL gave her child a battered toy her own son had made at school dust and all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodinparts Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 My MIL was, til now, the worst present giver I'd ever encountered...she is the woman for whom the "Innovations" catalogue was invented & every year I get a selection of "amazing" cleaning gadgets that I neither want nor need........but the "vibrant" chicken gift proves that she is a rank amateur. No chickeny presents here...I think my family are worried about my obsession so I'll just have to go & buy my own Extraordinary Chickens calendar, won't I...if not more! Otoh, my OH did give me a Kindle - so I have to forgive most things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
