Omlet Staff hanns Posted November 21, 2007 Omlet Staff Share Posted November 21, 2007 (edited) A journalist has contacted us with the following request. If you fit the description and would like to be involved (15 minutes of fame for you and your chickens!) please email johannes@omlet.co.uk or call Omlet and ask to speak to me (johannes) Dear Omlet, I know this is a strange request, but thought that, given the courses you do, you might be able to help. I am a journalist, and am looking for three women - or couples - who are trying to live The Good Life (yes, like the Seventies TV show) - who have their own chickens, say, and grow their own veg, and are trying to be self-sustainable, for a feature. I wondered whether you knew of anyone who might suit. Of the three couples, it would be good if I could find one couple who lived in a sustainable house, using green alternatives like eco water and electricity supplies, and who also grow veg, say, as well as try and generate their own bio-fuel; another who live in the suburbs yet grow their own veg and keeps chickens; and someone who lives right out in the country and is nearly completely self-sufficient. The women need to be reasonably glam, between 24 and 42, and willing to be interviewed (preferably with their partner - or on their own if they are single) and photographed by the end of this year. Ideally, I would want to interview them by the end of next week, if they can (and photographed in the new year). I'd like the couples to have a good story to tell - so if someone gave up their City job to go and live in the country and become self-sufficient, that would be great. (I'm not really after old hippies, or farmers who've done it all their lives, or city dwellers with the odd windowbox and solar panel, but people who are really trying to live The Good Life.) Many thanks for your help - and crossing fingers. If you can't think of anyone, would be enormously grateful if you could pass this email on to someone who might. I want to find really good people to interview, and it's not easy finding them from a flat in London. Edited November 21, 2007 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Well I probably woudn't fit the bill anyway, as most of my veg failed to grow this year or got eaten by slugs - but I'm TOO OLD! (and I'm not 'glam'!) I thought ageism had been outlawed! Come on, loads of you out there are in this age-bracket - someone must do this, I buy Marie-Claire regularly and I want to see an Eglu in there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 The women need to be reasonably glam, between 24 and 42 Well that's me out then! Cheeky mare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 im sure there will be someone on here!! im in the right age bracket,...but readers definitely wont want to see my mug in a magazine (im not glam either!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyBoo Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 We fit the criteria!! Apart from the good story to tell. And the "living the ethical life" bit. And the reasonably glam bit (and I've only just snuck in the age bracket thing too!!) Plus of course the garden's a bomb site, most of my veggies got eaten too. I did plant my placenta though and there's an apple tree growing on it, suppose that makes me an old hippie though so that rules me out too!! I bet Laura (fairy and cake) would fit - she could drop in the bit about her connections to HFW !! I hope whoever does it manages to get a big bit in about chooks and Omlet!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Come on Buffster - you're younger than me, and glam too....COW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 I think this request is really funny and has brightened up a miserable day I'm too old, not "glam" and not the slightest bit interesting Kazadress would fit the bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Well I'm in the age bracket, but am not glam, tidy & respectable but not glam. My chooks ate all my broccoli plants so we are not self sustaining in any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Has to be 3 women.... Men keep chickens too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Has to be 3 women....Men keep chickens too! But are you glam Fred? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 I'm not really after old hippies Well that's me out . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 I'm not really after old hippies Well that's me out . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Has to be 3 women....Men keep chickens too! But are you glam Fred? Of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Well that's me and you out Lesley....we are both fantastically glamorous and perfectly groomed at all times....we are just too old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 The women need to be reasonably glam, between 24 and 42 Well that's me out then! Cheeky mare I thought that was really cheeky too Andrew should apply - he is VERY glam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 I wonder why age has to come into it in the first place? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 he is, especially in those shiny pink stilettoes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 .........and he could sing the Sheilas Wheels song too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 I wonder why age has to come into it in the first place? Hmmm...makes you wonder if there's an ulterior motive? Seems a bit picky to me. What mag is it going in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 The mag was mentioned in the original journalist's blurb, & I mentioned it in a reply to Fred- I had a PM from Hanns saying he had edited my post as the journalist didn't want the magazine to be identified. Those who read the thread earlier will know- I will PM you if you like! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 I wonder why age has to come into it in the first place? Hmmm...makes you wonder if there's an ulterior motive? Seems a bit picky to me. What mag is it going in? Zoo? FHM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Blimey, they would have to be VERY glam for those mags Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyBoo Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 wrong type of chicks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Zoo? FHM? why would something about green living be in those magazines! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 It was a mag aimed at ladies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
