On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:00:07 +0100, wrote
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Judith p.s. we are on the hunt for the Omelet thing for chickens.


They are he http://www.omlet.co.uk/homepage/homepage.php
Had it bookmarked since I thought of buying one myself but have been told by
local poultry keepers that they are too expensive and awkward to use.

Looking after a friend's poultry a couple of times has really whetted my
appetite. I felt as proud collecting the eggs as if I had laid them myself!


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Sally in Shropshire, UK
bed and breakfast near Ludlow: http://www.stonybrook-ludlow.co.uk
Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church:
http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk

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Try painting them with chili powder paste if you have trouble :-)

The decking boards or the children?

Well, I meant the boards, but it would certainly improve the
palatability of the children.

Would that be roast, fried or boiled children?

Or should that be barbequed?

Oh come on now....................be serious............you can't fit a
whole child on a BBQ spit!

Didn't they used to 'barbecue' whole pigs and bulls years ago?

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On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:00:07 +0100, wrote
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Judith p.s. we are on the hunt for the Omelet thing for chickens.


They are he http://www.omlet.co.uk/homepage/homepage.php
Had it bookmarked since I thought of buying one myself but have been told
by
local poultry keepers that they are too expensive and awkward to use.

They are expensive but they last a lot longer than wooden ones and they
certainly are NOT awkward to use!

We've had one for a few years and wouldn't consider anything else for our
back garden poultry.

Mary

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"Mary Fisher" writes:

Try painting them with chili powder paste if you have trouble :-)

The decking boards or the children?

Well, I meant the boards, but it would certainly improve the
palatability of the children.

Would that be roast, fried or boiled children?

Or should that be barbequed?

Oh come on now....................be serious............you can't fit a
whole child on a BBQ spit!

Didn't they used to 'barbecue' whole pigs and bulls years ago?

Still do - but they don't get their equipment from B&Q. It's a commercial
operation, you'd have to have a reliable source of children to make buying
one worthwhile.

Mary
Q: what's the difference between a lorry load of sand and a lorry load of
babies?
A: you can't unload sand with a pitchfork.

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"Mary Fisher" writes:
| "Alan Holmes" wrote in message
| ...
|
| Oh come on now....................be serious............you can't fit a
| whole child on a BBQ spit!
|
| Didn't they used to 'barbecue' whole pigs and bulls years ago?
|
| Still do - but they don't get their equipment from B&Q. It's a commercial
| operation, you'd have to have a reliable source of children to make buying
| one worthwhile.

I made one. It's trivial, and the cost is under 20 quid. If anyone
would like directions, please ask, and I will post.

Directions for the barbecuing of small children are not postable,
under UK academic censorship rules.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 12:50:44 +0100, Mary Fisher wrote
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:00:07 +0100, wrote
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Judith p.s. we are on the hunt for the Omelet thing for chickens.


They are he http://www.omlet.co.uk/homepage/homepage.php
Had it bookmarked since I thought of buying one myself but have been told
by
local poultry keepers that they are too expensive and awkward to use.

They are expensive but they last a lot longer than wooden ones and they
certainly are NOT awkward to use!

We've had one for a few years and wouldn't consider anything else for our
back garden poultry.



Thanks for the tip Mary!


--
Sally in Shropshire, UK
Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church with conservation
churchyard:
http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk

On Jun 9, 12:34 pm, Sally Thompson
wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:00:07 +0100, wrote
(in article . com):

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Judith p.s. we are on the hunt for the Omelet thing for chickens.

They are he http://www.omlet.co.uk/homepage/homepage.php
Had it bookmarked since I thought of buying one myself but have been told by
local poultry keepers that they are too expensive and awkward to use.

Looking after a friend's poultry a couple of times has really whetted my
appetite. I felt as proud collecting the eggs as if I had laid them myself!

Sally I hve been bidding on Ebay for one but I have been outbid.

On Jun 9, 12:50 pm, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
They are expensive but they last a lot longer than wooden ones and they
certainly are NOT awkward to use!

We've had one for a few years and wouldn't consider anything else for our
back garden poultry.


Mary I have been bidding for one on Ebay with a run, do they all come
with runs? The last bid was for £230, mine and I was out bid.

I've had a look at the site and it seems as if the cheapest around
£300 come without a run, what is your advice please?

Judith

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"Mary Fisher" writes:

Try painting them with chili powder paste if you have trouble :-)

The decking boards or the children?

Well, I meant the boards, but it would certainly improve the
palatability of the children.

Would that be roast, fried or boiled children?

Or should that be barbequed?

Oh come on now....................be serious............you can't fit a
whole child on a BBQ spit!

Didn't they used to 'barbecue' whole pigs and bulls years ago?

Still do - but they don't get their equipment from B&Q. It's a commercial
operation, you'd have to have a reliable source of children to make buying
one worthwhile.

There is a school just around the corner from me, the children seem to be
ok, it's the parents who are a bloody nuisance!

Perhaps we could substitute parents for children for the barbecue?

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 16:19:40 +0100, wrote
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On Jun 9, 12:34 pm, Sally Thompson
wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:00:07 +0100, wrote
(in article . com):

snip



Judith p.s. we are on the hunt for the Omelet thing for chickens.

They are he http://www.omlet.co.uk/homepage/homepage.php
Had it bookmarked since I thought of buying one myself but have been told by
local poultry keepers that they are too expensive and awkward to use.

Looking after a friend's poultry a couple of times has really whetted my
appetite. I felt as proud collecting the eggs as if I had laid them myself!

Sally I hve been bidding on Ebay for one but I have been outbid.


Ah, I see! Well, don't tell anyone but there is another one :-)


--
Sally in Shropshire, UK
Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church with conservation
churchyard:
http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk

On Jun 9, 11:01 pm, Sally Thompson
wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 16:19:40 +0100, wrote
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On Jun 9, 12:34 pm, Sally Thompson
wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:00:07 +0100, wrote
(in article . com):

snip

Judith p.s. we are on the hunt for the Omelet thing for chickens.

They are he http://www.omlet.co.uk/homepage/homepage.php
Had it bookmarked since I thought of buying one myself but have been told by
local poultry keepers that they are too expensive and awkward to use.

Looking after a friend's poultry a couple of times has really whetted my
appetite. I felt as proud collecting the eggs as if I had laid them myself!

Sally I hve been bidding on Ebay for one but I have been outbid.

Ah, I see! Well, don't tell anyone but there is another one :-)

I know, but that one has no feeding bowls, it's stained and no summer
cover AND it's in Northamptonshire!!!

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"Mary Fisher" writes:
| "Alan Holmes" wrote in message
| ...
|
| Oh come on now....................be serious............you can't
fit a
| whole child on a BBQ spit!
|
| Didn't they used to 'barbecue' whole pigs and bulls years ago?
|
| Still do - but they don't get their equipment from B&Q. It's a
commercial
| operation, you'd have to have a reliable source of children to make
buying
| one worthwhile.

I made one. It's trivial, and the cost is under 20 quid. If anyone
would like directions, please ask, and I will post.

Directions for the barbecuing of small children are not postable,
under UK academic censorship rules.

I suppose it depends on their size, from sucking pig to full grown ram. And
the preference of the eater. Never heard of rare-cooked ones but they'd be
possible.

Mary


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Alan Holmes wrote:
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"Mary Fisher" writes:

Try painting them with chili powder paste if you have trouble :-)

The decking boards or the children?

Well, I meant the boards, but it would certainly improve the
palatability of the children.

Would that be roast, fried or boiled children?

Or should that be barbequed?

Oh come on now....................be serious............you can't fit a
whole child on a BBQ spit!

Didn't they used to 'barbecue' whole pigs and bulls years ago?

Still do - but they don't get their equipment from B&Q. It's a commercial
operation, you'd have to have a reliable source of children to make
buying one worthwhile.

There is a school just around the corner from me, the children seem to be
ok, it's the parents who are a bloody nuisance!

Perhaps we could substitute parents for children for the barbecue?

In my experience they'd be too skinny, too fat and/or need a lot of
preparation. And tough of course. They make good dog meat.

Mary

On Jun 9, 11:09 am, Jim Webster wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:49:34 -0700, wrote:
Hi, I was planning to make some planters for our garden from decking
boards (from Wickes or B&Q).
As it's treated it should last a long time, however I am worried
whether this 'treatment' is harmful to small children by touching or
chewing (we have a 15 month old son and hope to have another child).
I would have thought it was safe as it's so widely used but just
wanted to double-check.
Thanks

Absolutely stunning that a parent should need to ask such a question!
There should be a test before people are allowed to breed, you clearly
wouldn't even find the test centre.

How do you conclude that.

ALL wood treatments are highly toxic.
Well, toxic. "Highly toxic" suggests that chewing a piece of treated
timber would kill a full grown man. It wouldn't.

To answer another poster MDF is full of toxins.
Right. So trying to exclude toxins from the environment is doomed to
failure. You have to teach the children to avoid them.

Do society a favour and give the kids up for adoption, you're clearly
an idiot!

No doubt you're the sort of parent who thinks it's OK to leave the
kids alone while you pop out for a meal?
Well I certainly am. OK, my one kid is now an adult, so you probably
claim that doesn't count. On the other hand when he was five I
cheerfully let him walk (actually "stamp") back to an uninhabited
house where you could /just/ see the nearest neighbour while we went
and walked up the hill. If this a cloaked attack at the McCanns, I
think leaving a two year old in a virtually crime-free village, within
sight of the restaurant, was pretty much the right level of
independance to give the child. (OK, in her case it turned out to
have been the wrong decision - but you can't wait until they're 16 to
let them out alone.)

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:23:51 -0700, Martin Bonner
wrote:

On Jun 9, 11:09 am, Jim Webster wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:49:34 -0700, wrote:
Hi, I was planning to make some planters for our garden from decking
boards (from Wickes or B&Q).
As it's treated it should last a long time, however I am worried
whether this 'treatment' is harmful to small children by touching or
chewing (we have a 15 month old son and hope to have another child).
I would have thought it was safe as it's so widely used but just
wanted to double-check.
Thanks

Absolutely stunning that a parent should need to ask such a question!
There should be a test before people are allowed to breed, you clearly
wouldn't even find the test centre.

How do you conclude that.

ALL wood treatments are highly toxic.
Well, toxic. "Highly toxic" suggests that chewing a piece of treated
timber would kill a full grown man. It wouldn't.

To answer another poster MDF is full of toxins.
Right. So trying to exclude toxins from the environment is doomed to
failure. You have to teach the children to avoid them.

Do society a favour and give the kids up for adoption, you're clearly
an idiot!

No doubt you're the sort of parent who thinks it's OK to leave the
kids alone while you pop out for a meal?
Well I certainly am. OK, my one kid is now an adult, so you probably
claim that doesn't count. On the other hand when he was five I
cheerfully let him walk (actually "stamp") back to an uninhabited
house where you could /just/ see the nearest neighbour while we went
and walked up the hill. If this a cloaked attack at the McCanns, I
think leaving a two year old in a virtually crime-free village, within
sight of the restaurant, was pretty much the right level of
independance to give the child. (OK, in her case it turned out to
have been the wrong decision - but you can't wait until they're 16 to
let them out alone.)


Contemptible.