Mary woke up and found that she had slept all night on the sofa in the living room. This was the first time that she had ever done that and she was very puzzled.
Then she realised she had a temperature she then understood that she had suddenly felt too unwell to go to bed. Mary thought she would have her nap on the sofa but she was asleep for 9 hours. She called for her little cat Emile.
Emil6 ran into the room,oh mother he fried I thought you were dead.
Why did you not go next door and ask Annie to come?
I thought it was too late so I went into my basket and fell asleep and then I ate the cold sausages you left out.
The sausages were not for you. There were for the church bazaar lunch.
Well you won’t be able to go to the church bazaar this now will you? You may have got COVID.
I never had my booster vaccineshe cried thoughtfully. Didn’t have the flu jab either.
Emile said I’ve got something else to tell you. I ate all the stuffed eggs that you made last night and they were absolutely delicious so will you make some more ?
You’ll have to wait. I have used all the eggs that there are in the fridge so unless you can go out and find a hen and see where it lays its eggs you’ll have to wait till I’m well again
Why, are you going to go and find a hen?
No I will order them with the groceries from the Co-op. They do organic ones
It’s a pity that you can’t lay eggs, the cat said.
Human eggs are very small because after the sperm gets into the ovum and it becomes fertile it remains inside the mother being fed through the umbilical cord but chickens don’t stay inside the hen for 9 months the egg is put into the nest and the hen have to keep it warm and eventually it will hatch and out will come the chicken.
So when we eat the egg we are eating the chicken that’s inside it?
Yes although sometimes the egg doesn’t have an embryo in it.
They lay sleepily on the sofa wondering why human beings ate the eggs of hens
And so do all of us
How my heart sings 