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The Egg and Us :Unreal Curlews eye off royal gift.
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We at this often cracked blog literally fell off our perch when Santa delivered an unexpected parcel from none other than Her Most Germanic Majesty, The Queen of the Jungle , still nursing a wonky knee, in colour and shape looking like a hunk of Black Forest cake way past its use by date . The present came with a personal handwritten instruction to open the package with care . Whatever could it be ? There were flights of wild imagination. Like Inspector Clouseau dealing with a " bombe", the elongated cardboard container was carefully opened at one end , a soft white (toilet? ) paper wrapped object withdrawn , unwrapped - to reveal a blown , infertile Curlew egg !!! We bet nobody else in this land received such a Chrissy present. And further down the surprise package was a silver mount in which to insert and display the egg. It joins our computer generated Curlew figurines mounted on a wooden base made by another German bird lover on Magnetic Island, North Queensland . The Queen later explained the egg is a reward for helping to drag out and harpoon her water bed while she was in hospital. Had we discovered the other surprise in the package, she asked. No-what?...German Chancellor Angela Merkel , extra padding in the container had included pages from a September issue of The Guardian Weekly highlighting an address by Merkel at a rally against anti-Semitism entitled Stand Up! Jew Hatred-Never Again ! Hastily searching through the Christmas present wrappings, we guiltily retrieved Ms Merkel .
