bloggy breakfast

We like eggs for breakfast sometimes here. I am not, however the chief egg cooker – it is not my forte. To this end, and knowing that St Blair was going to be away quite a bit in the mornings due to work commitments, when we were in Sydney last I purchased a couple of tricky egg cooking gadgets from Peter’s of Kensington – an egg cutter and a timer that distinguishes between soft, medium etc…

I cooked the eggs for breakfast the other morning. Most people in this house enjoy their eggs on the softer side and Miss Caitie will not often partake of a googy at all. Monday morning she surprised us all by agreeing to have an egg but requested one that was a little harder – so I popped one back into the saucepan and cooked it a little longer, got the toast going and readied my implements…

This is an egg cutter – cuts the tops of beautifully, well mostly, when just the right amount of pressure is applied, and the scissor action works to rule, the sun is shining in the sky, the rooster has crowed three times and you jump up and down on one foot - you know the drill…however, apparently when the conditions are not quite right this happens…

Ooooops!