MNX*

I find it quite odd that the most peculiar and irrelevant items can be recalled from one's childhood and adolescence. I can have problems recalling what I did yesterday, but strange oddities from well over forty years ago pop in to my mind. I don't know what triggers them. They just turn up, out of the blue.

I had one of those distant memory experiences when thinking about today's Journal entry. I knew what I was going to write about and the title of the entry sprang fully formed in my mind. As it rattled around in my brain I noticed that it was dragging along a memory of a long distant English lesson. That lesson was about wordplay and the teacher introduced us to a book called Let stalk strine by Professor Afterbeck Lauder.  For some reason it has stuck with me ever since and I believe that this is still regarded as one of the finest works about the Australian dialect.

I don't recall whether the lesson included rebuses, but MNX is well known rebus puzzle, and one simply has to say the letters out loud to reach its solution; "ham and eggs".  

So, how does ham and eggs apply to today's events? Well, I wandered up to the chicken coop this morning and ensured that they had food and water. I peered inside the coop and noticed an egg on the floor. They have finally started to lay about 157 days, or 22 weeks, after hatching.  Normally I wouldn't expect them to start laying until the day length is noticeably increasing in early March. I don't know whether any of the other pullets will follow suit in the coming days, or whether we will be waiting a while for the next one.

And now to the ham. At the request of 30%, I grabbed a carving knife and sliced up the remainder of our Christmas ham. This was divided in to portions, vacuum packed and frozen. 

So, there you have it. New Years day summed up in three letters; MNX.

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* a rebus