A mystery at Le Couvent

 


 

Just before we re-opened for the summer season I was planting geraniums and  petunias in pots all over the gardens here at Le Couvent. Imagine my surprise on finding a hen's egg when digging out an old plant in one of the pots by the pool. I lifted it out carefully and took it in to show Ali. I was reluctant to crack it open knowing how revolting it would smell if it had been there an age. So I ditched it.

 


 

The day after I returned to clean the pool. The newly planted flowers had been turfed out and a furious search had been conducted - in the neighbouring pots too. So what do you suppose had buried the egg there in the first place? It wasn't a guest from last year - we date all our eggs when we collect them from the nests. It wasn't our dogs since neither is allowed anywhere near the pool in case Flynn the Husky drowns. (He can't swim) It wasn't Ali and it wasn't me. Anyone willing to own up, or offer a suggestion?

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written by Sue King, May 31, 2010
A few years ago I bought a small tree. A 6 months later when I took it out of the pot to plant it, quite deep in the soil was a huge white egg. A goose or swans egg. I did break it and it was as if 'cooked' and no smell. A bit of research came up with the fact that foxes bury eggs, which I thought could have happened!

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