Sunday
Jun132010
The Egg Show
Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 11:32 PM 
Look at this! Ha! I’m grinning like a Cheshire cat!
It turns out there are such things as egg shows. No hens, no ducks…..just eggs.
And it also turns out that someone entered me and my Dixon Hill eggs into one.
Now my girls have had a difficult couple of weeks, one way and another, so they haven’t been laying much. Which means I didn’t have the full complement of eggs I was supposed to have for the competition. Nor were the few I did have up to their usual big, bountiful, beautiful standard.
And yet…..I won third prize!!! Can you believe it? Me! Scoring in an egg contest! I’m cock-a-hoop!
I won the princely sum of four guineas (I LOVE that the prize money is in guineas - such a wonderfully quaint unit of currency); and I received a cheery yellow rosette and a certificate to boot.
Can't wait to tell the girls. Next year we’re going for first prize!
Reader Comments (4)
Congrats! How are you going to celebrate with the hens with the 4 guineas? :)
Oh how wonderful! Congratulations on your egg-citing victory (sorry, just couldn't resist)!
Woo hoo! Congratulation to the hens and to you! And what a gorgeous photo of all those chocolate eggs. Just out of curiosity, what is the value of four guineas?
A guinea, these days, means £1.05 - roughly $1.54 at current exchange rates. So 4 guineas would be a little over $6. Top prize was 100 guineas!