to ask you all to consider making Reindeer Food?

[DrSeuss]

Every year, Rudolf and co work hard to bring us our presents, even if they only bring crappy self stirring mugs. If we all pitch in to make them some reindeer food, a delightful mix of oats to fill their tummies and glitter to help them fly, we can sell it at £1 a bag for the charity of our choice and no reindeer will be hungry this Christmas. If you use edible glitter you don't have to worry about any Little Treasures eating it instead of sprinkling it on the garden on Christmas Eve.

Christ. Well I don't believe in fundraising it's a complete waste of time. So I'll donate a fiver and you can like it.

Coventry, Middlesborough or Liverpool. Pick one and let me know what I'm doing.

If I were the op, HitTheRoad, I'd probably very politely tell you to keep yer fiver!

Why was the man from the RSPB on the telly last week telling us to feed the birds?

Was it all a big lie to somehow make money (not sure how that would work)

RSPB don't care about vermin, they care about feeding birds. Birds can indeed catch their own food.

Christ I never realised hospices weren't funded by the gov.
I honestly thought the fundraising was for the "extras" like a nice garden

I'll change my giving from now on.

It's a lovely idea, and raw porridge oats are great food for lots of species of bird.

Please do continue to feed the birds. They really struggle when the ground freezes over, not long now until that starts. If you exercise good housekeeping ie sweeping up dropped food etc, there's no reason why we shouldn't be helping our garden birds to feed.

Sorry for the hijack, Dr!

There's so much other food around here for the rats, grains/sugarbeet/potatoes for the rats, who climb up to sample from the feeder & bird table anyway (at all times of year).

I imagine that's even truer in cities with overflowing bins.

Flossie, I'm sure her money is as good as anyone else's. £5 will pay for something.

Middlesbrough, please. It's principal supporters were the workers at the nearby Corus steel plant, which closed last year causing it to lose huge amounts of revenue.

Mrs DeVere, I seem to remember that this is a topic of which you have personal experience. If so, I hope you are not too distressed by discussing it.

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'I tell people all the time to sod off feeding birds. THey manage on their own to catch their own food they don't need assistance.'

No, no, no. Birds in this country need all the help they can get. Populations of some species have dropped 70% in the last 30 years. The more fat they can get over the winter, the better their fertility in the spring, too.

Lots of bird feeders you can get that don't let rats of squirrels get to the food.

sorry for the hijack.

I don't need foxes and the like near my animals. The birds will just have to get their food from the city.

I live in the city.
I have no intention of driving out on a daily basis to feed country birds.

How odd.

We have wheely bins. Very hard for rats and foxes to get in to.

Who suggested that you drive to the country to feed birds?

Is hittheroadjack Liz Jones ?

Hello. We're going to move this thread to the Christmas topic

Our local Marie Curie centre sells reindeer food packs every year for £1 - its a very popular fundraiser here (NI), my Mum has already bought some for my kids this year - I left it too late last year

OR you could just donate money and not have bags of seeds hanging about.

Last year Argos were selling it for Teenage Cancer Trust.

All my family and lots of my friends bought it.

No ecological disasters seemed to have happened thus far that I could put down to over use of glitter oatmeal...

Well done Fidgety!

How odd that you should think fundraising a waste of time. Without fundraising there would be no such thing as childrens hospices in the UK. Nowhere for respite, palliative, end of life of bereavement support for children with life limiting diseases and their families.

Yup sure, what a bloody waste of time.

Im sure fundraising is good but glitter oatmeal just isnt the tradition here where I am.