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O is for the Ostrich egg #atoz challenge

April 18, 2016
I’m participating with over 1000 bloggers in the 7th A to Z Challenge and will be blogging the whole of April about the ‘ Things around My House’, from A to Z. Today is O for Ostrich Egg

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A strange oval object came out of my mother-in-law’s luggage when she re-located from Africa. It was an Ostrich Egg, quite easily the largest egg I’d ever seen and quite frankly, the ugliest. It’s hard shell with tiny pock marks has got yellow with age over the years .

With my previous experience of eating egg other than a hen’s (we had duck eggs once thinking that they were nice and big hen’s eggs) I was happy that the egg was drained of all its contents and I didn’t have to bother with cooking it. So I kept it carefully in the glass case where we keep all our “show pieces”.

Little known facts about Ostrich eggs

However, there seems to be a market for ostrich eggs and emu eggs ( remember the scam in Ravi Subramanian’s novel Bankerupt? ) especially among those seeking the exotic. However, you should be aware of some facts before you crack the egg open
- an ostrich egg weighs 1.6-2.3 kg
- a female ostrich lays 40-60 eggs in a year
- an ostrich egg takes 42 days to hatch
- 1 ostrich egg = 24 hen eggs
- you need a domestic drill to crack it open, not the back of a spoon
- it takes 90 minutes for a hard boiled ostrich egg
- it takes 30 minutes for a soft boiled ostrich egg
- an entire ostrich egg contains 2000 calories
- ostrich eggs are a good source of Thiamine
- ostrich eggs have less saturated fats and cholesterol than chicken eggs
- ostrich eggs don’t contain sodium
- you can’t buy ostrich eggs in India.
The best nail file for perfect nails #a to z Challenge

April 16, 2016

I’m participating with over 1000 bloggers in the 7th A to Z Challenge and will be blogging the whole of April about the ‘ Things around My House’, from A to Z. My Nail file is my pride and joy.

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A well groomed person will always have well kept nails and many men and women go for regular manicures and pedicures. However, I’ve never been a mani-pedi type and didn’t bother with my nails till I received a KOH crystal Nail File.

I was puzzled as I looked at it. What do I do with it? However, G looked at me expectantly, waiting to hear the OOOHS and AAAHS so I quickly converted my gasp of surprise into one of appreciation saying “Oh My God! Just what I wanted! What an unusual gift!”

G looked suitably happy.

“I’m so glad you liked it,” she trilled, ” I didn’t know what to get someone I didn’t know.”

Well, that was a strange gift and she took a big gamble, I thought, as I tucked it away in my cupboard before it smashed into a million bits. And it stayed there till one day till curiosity got the better of me and I decided to give it a try. Rather gingerly I took it out of the velvet lined box and filed my nails. Fine dust flew around and when I touched the nails, I was shocked at how smooth the edges were and groomed my nails looked! Obviously G wasn’t the Blonde Bimbo she seemed to be. The KOH Crystal Nail file is really good value for money because you can have perfect nails in your own home!

[tweetthis display_mode=”box” remove_twitter_handles=”true”]Besides, a crystal #nail file makes you feel like a lady of leisure. [/tweetthis]
Sun rising in a concrete jungle #SkywatchFriday

April 15, 2016

It had to happen one day. With the concrete jungle getting thicker everyday, I was waiting for an opportunity to capture the sun inside a building.

Finally, I saw this tiny orange globe squished inside a concrete structure, like a balloon looking for escape.

Of course it wasn’t long before it managed to rise above and escape !

For many, this is the second day of a very long weekend ( yesterday was Ambedkar Jayanti and today is Ram Navmi) I hope you are enjoying this break.

And for the rest, Happy Weekend.

Linking this to SkywatchFriday