Tuesday, April 17, 2018

The Wonder of Eggs/ Hold On, I'm Coming






"I think if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg".

Thomas Wentworth Higginson


The above quote was used by Sir David Attenborough in "The Wonder of Eggs" which was broadcast in England recently.  I hope they will show it here soon as it looks as if it is something I would really like to see!  (I read a review about it from the English newspaper "The Times".) Did anybody see this on TV in England?  Let me know what it was like, will you?  Now, the quote made me look up Thomas Wentworth Higginson...you may read about him here.  What a fascinating man!  We need more like him today.






"Hold On, I'm Coming"...I have had that song in my head.  I didn't know why but I just looked at some videos on YouTube and apparently, the Chicago Cubs play it at Wrigley Field every time the Cubs score a run.  The Braves played the Cubs on Saturday...the Braves were ahead 10  to 2.  However, the Cubs scored NINE runs in the 8th inning and they ended up beating the Braves with a score of 14 to 10!  I must have heard that song in the background without even realizing it! (You see in that 8th inning, I had plenty of time to hear it!)  

Oh well, you win some, you lose some ...and some get rained out! (By the way, there were several games postponed this past Sunday, due to rainy/cold weather!)  

Hope all of you are doing well these days!  









35 comments:

  1. Hi!
    I watched the show. It was FASCINATING and I loved every single minute of it. I love David Attenborough’s voice. The most amazing thing about the programme was showing us how birds know their own eggs! I shan’t spoil it for you but I hope you get to see it soon x

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    1. Rachel! Thank you so much for telling me this, you are a doll! (Wait, maybe you are a Gingerbread Gal! LOL!)
      I will certainly look out for this show if we ever get it. Hmmm... I wonder how many folks write a post about something they have never seen?? HA!
      Thanks again! x

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  2. I'm sorry to say that I didn't even see the title in the programme lists so I haven't seen it.

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    1. I am sure that they will repeat it for you before we get to see it here. I know you love birds as much as Richard and I do, so I know you will love it!

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  3. That does sound an interesting show. I think eggs are a rather special food - portable, tasty, full of protein, don't require any specialised knowledge to produce!

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    1. And when someone gives you fresh eggs from their farm, that is the best gift!

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    1. Me and you both! I didn't say but I was really doing housework that day, and just had it on in the background. Whenever I heard the crowd cheering, I knew that was bad for the Braves since they were in Chicago! :-)

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  5. As I often enjoy a hard boiled egg for breakfast, I can say they are wonderful. Eggs are an amazing food and also an amazing sight. Seeing a birds egg in the nest is one of those precious things in life that reminds us that life goes on.

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    1. Yes! I also love to see birds eggs in a nest. Have you ever eaten a boiled egg in an eggcup? That is the way that Richard likes to eat them, with a tiny little spoon, and you carefully crack the top of it, like a little hat that you take off. I was surprised the first time I was in England and I saw this. Richard told me that when you are a child, you are given toast cut into long strips and they are called "soldiers"! :-) There, I have given you lots of info that no one asked me about! LOL!

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  6. The programme was really fascinating Kay...I definitely recommend and hope you get it! The guillemot egg story especially sticks in my mind! Wonderful x

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    1. Rachel! So great to see your comment here!
      Thanks for letting me know that you saw this show and enjoyed it! Now, go and bake me something! :-)
      Take care!

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  7. Oh, I love me some Sam and Dave! True. Eggs are amazing.

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    1. Funny to combine these two subjects, I know but my mind is a bit disjointed these days. :-)

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  8. I love "sports traditions" -- they're always so fun and sometimes goofy!

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    1. Me too! And funny thing, I read that it is a "tradition" since 2015! HA!

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  9. My Tigers already have 6 games to make up. What a season!

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    1. This Spring has been more like winter, and I know that is more true for you in your neck of the woods!

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  10. Don't you just love David Attenborough. I want to see the one with him and the Queen in her garden. I suppose you are well into your Spring time while he we sit under the snow and ice. A VERY long winter this year.
    Janice

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    1. I do love David Attenborough! And I would love to see the show that he did with the Queen in her garden, that would be great! We are certainly in our Spring and we have had some really warm days, even hot ones, but then, a cold front will come through and it can be very cool again. Very strange this year. Can't complain though, at least, no snow!

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  11. Eggs are rather wonderful, containing everything needed to hatch out a new baby bird.

    Some baseball games were snowed out, i was told. That boggles my mind!

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    1. Eggs are amazing. And I hope to see the TV show that I told you about here! If you see it coming on, be sure to let me know! :-)
      Baseball being snowed out, that is unreal!

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  12. Baseball is not "big" in Australia, but I remember back in the early 70s a baseball team from the US...I can't remember which one, visited and did a tour, playing against various Aussie teams. I was living in Brisbane at the time and a girlfriend and I went along one a Saturday afternoon to see the match....and we enjoyed the whole affair.

    We also went along one night, in those same years, to see the Harlem Globetrotters play. They were so much fun...and such brilliant handlers of the ball.

    As for David Attenborough and the wonderful work he has done and continues doing...are there enough words of praise? :)

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    1. I love to watch baseball at a real game! I hope you sang "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" in the 7th inning!
      The Harlem Globetrotters! How lucky you were to see them!
      David Attenborough...there are NOT enough words of praise, you are right about that.

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  13. As as Braves fan, I have to applaud the Cubbies for that kind of great playing. :)

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  14. Applaud the Cubs? Never! 😀 The weather had to play a factor, it looked brutal. Just like the Falcons vs Patriots in Super Bowl,let us dismiss it from our minds. LOL!

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  15. How are we doing? Here in northeast Ohio where it snowed again, today, April 19th? We are colder than we would like to be! Merciful heavens!......I love eggs. They are very healthy and I am happy that the new research shows they do not cause high cholesterol. As for David Attenborough - I simply love his work! I hope we get to see this new piece about eggs....I knew Thomas Wentworth Higginson only through his correspondence with Emily Dickinson. What an interesting man he was and what a fascinating milieu he and his wife inhabited. Wow!

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    1. Your snow! I am amazed by the news this Spring! I knew you would love Thomas Wentworth Higginson too! (Sorry I didn't have time to say much about him, but I hoped the quote would make folks look about him further!)
      Hope your Spring is coming on more and more everyday! x

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  16. Jack has a patient that brings us eggs from her little farm and they are the best for cooking. I can't eat eggs but I sure love when he brings home a dozen or more that are brown, blue, green..depends on what chicken laid them! Ahhh those Cubbies! I grew up in Chicago and as a kiddo went to Wrigley field to enjoy the games. My family out there were probably cheering when they won..sorry!

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    1. My Dad has those kind of eggs too, some bluish, some greenish some brown! :-)
      I am sure the Cub fans were overjoyed over that victory on Saturday! Not so for the Braves fans! LOL!

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  17. I would love to see that video about eggs. I love a good omelet now and then, too.

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    1. Look out for the documentary about eggs!
      And guess what, I make a GREAT omelet, one of the few things I can cook! :-)

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  18. I watched the egg prog in Scotland if that counts as we get the same TV there mostly :o) It was interesting. D.A.s Blue Planet 1 and 2 are really worth seeing as well in USA if you haven't watched them already.

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    1. Hey Bob! I should have said Scotland too, please don't feel left out, I know you must get the same TV shows too! (Although sometimes when there is a show set in Scotland, I have to put the closed captions on to understand the accent! Not always, just sometimes.) We did get Blue Planet 1 and 2! :-)

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  19. I think I would have liked Higginson. He devoted his life to causes I believe in!

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