this year's must have present
As Mike said recently, England is often the source of all things cool.
From the Guardian:
One is small, shiny and plays thousands of your favourite songs when you carry it with you. The other is large, hairy, makes a bleating noise and would butt you if you tried to pick it up.
But iPods and goats are the must-have Christmas gifts this year. And both, it seems, are in short supply.
Oxfam has sold more than 30,000 goat gifts; Cafod - the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development - has sold 13,000 at £25 a goat. The charities are using the gift money to buy the obstreperous beasts for villages stricken by famine.
"It's been incredible," said Debbie Wainwright of Cafod. "We've raised nearly £800,000 from Christmas gifts this year and our top selling gift is the goat. One school raised £5,000 to buy goats."
Devotees of Radiohead, who have made it a Christmas tradition to buy guitarist Ed O'Brien bizarre gifts, have got him dozens of £24 Oxfam goats this Christmas. "I have decided I want to populate the world with my goats," wrote one fan on a Radiohead message board.
Cafod is buying goats for people in Eritrea, Kenya and southern Sudan. Oxfam's goats will go to 70 countries.
As well as producing milk, offspring and manure for crops, goats are notoriously hardy.
Under Oxfam's scheme, the animals are given to village committees, who decide who most needs them.
"It's been a phenomenal success," said Douglas Graham of Oxfam. People like tangibility, but they also understand when they are buying something less tangible. I'd rather have a goat than an iPod."
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From the Guardian:
One is small, shiny and plays thousands of your favourite songs when you carry it with you. The other is large, hairy, makes a bleating noise and would butt you if you tried to pick it up.
But iPods and goats are the must-have Christmas gifts this year. And both, it seems, are in short supply.
Oxfam has sold more than 30,000 goat gifts; Cafod - the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development - has sold 13,000 at £25 a goat. The charities are using the gift money to buy the obstreperous beasts for villages stricken by famine.
"It's been incredible," said Debbie Wainwright of Cafod. "We've raised nearly £800,000 from Christmas gifts this year and our top selling gift is the goat. One school raised £5,000 to buy goats."
Devotees of Radiohead, who have made it a Christmas tradition to buy guitarist Ed O'Brien bizarre gifts, have got him dozens of £24 Oxfam goats this Christmas. "I have decided I want to populate the world with my goats," wrote one fan on a Radiohead message board.
Cafod is buying goats for people in Eritrea, Kenya and southern Sudan. Oxfam's goats will go to 70 countries.
As well as producing milk, offspring and manure for crops, goats are notoriously hardy.
Under Oxfam's scheme, the animals are given to village committees, who decide who most needs them.
"It's been a phenomenal success," said Douglas Graham of Oxfam. People like tangibility, but they also understand when they are buying something less tangible. I'd rather have a goat than an iPod."
link
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