You have to laugh at typos – don’t you? But what about “brainos”? (Braino is a new term coined by my husband Chris.” Brainos are a bit more embarrassing than typos because they indicate a certain lacking in the brain department of the writer, meaning that eider she (me) can’t spell or she isn’t paying due care and attention to the subject. In my case, I have been burdened by letting a howler “out there” in the Internet, not once but twice in the same sentence! You could say that I have “egg on my face”, especially as my cracking braino was meant to be the word for the golden inside of a duck egg:

“With extremely white shells and yokes that are very orange, ” I interrupted with a tone that denoted there was something wrong with alien white shells and large orange yokes.”

Whoops!

Still on the topic of those particular eggs… Apparently Germans do like duck eggs according to our lovely guest Monika but when I offered her more of them she declined saying, “One was quite big enough for us to share!”

So this lunchtime I made some delicious Australian pikelets (like small American pancakes).

“These are wonderful – as light as a feather,” enthused Chris.

“Delicious,” agreed our friend Jo who, a little later, was on a flying visit.

The pikelets flew off the plate.

” What is in them?” queried Jo.

“Well, as I had all these duck eggs I thought I’d use one duck egg and one chook egg,” I said opening the carton with the seven remaining huge white eggs, several of which were smeared with duck business. Incidentally, a chook is what we Aussies call a chicken.

I detected a look on Jo’s face that told me he wasn’t sure about duck eggs.

“They have really big orange yolks. Would you like some duck eggs to take home with you?” I asked.

“No thanks, but the pikelets were lovely,” Jo had regained his composure.

So if you’d like some duck eggs or some left over delicious pikelets do let me know. That’s all folks!

Only Yoking!

Light as a feather, naturally!