Eggs For Breakfast...

Whilst looking through some old papers today I found a wonderful letter from one of my customers. She was busy making my quilt Eggs for Breakfast

and remembered that her grandfather used to say X for breakfast which is from an old Cockney alphabet.
A for ‘orses (hay for horses)
B for mutton (beef or mutton)
C for yourself (see for yourself)
D for ential (differential)
E for Adam (Eve or Adam)
F for scent (effervescent)
G for gotton (forgotten)
H for himself (each for himself)
I for E (ivory)
J for orange (jaffa orange)
K’s for doctor (case for doctor)
L for leather (hell for leather)
M for sis (emphasis)
N for lope (envelope)
O for the garden wall (over the garden wall)
P’s for dinner (peas for dinner)
Q for billiards (cue for billiards)
R for mo (half a mo)
S for you (its for you)
T for biting (teeth for biting)
U for me (you for me)
V for la France (viva la France)
W for the winnings (double you for the winnings)
X for breakfast (eggs for breakfast)
Y for husband (wife or husband)
Z for wind (zephyr wind)

I see in the picture of the quilt there is one of my beloved hens running in front of the quilt, I cant remember what type of hen she was, although I do remember that her eggs were wonderful. Do any of you know what type of hen she was?

bye for now

Comments

[Sonnja]

What a beautiful Quilt!
Kind regards,

Sonnja, from the Netherlands
Beertje Zonn

[Annelies]

What a beautiful quilt. I do like the picture with the running hen in front of the quilt.

[Mary Wood]

What a nice Quilt Sorry dont know what kind of hen it is to me its just a black one LOL
Higs Mary.

[Chris Anthony]

Don't know what sort of hen it is, but I took my two granddaughters to local show on Friday and we say a black and white speckled chook like that and Chloe said "Look Granma a 101 Dalmation chook". Out of the mouths of babes!! Love the quilt by the way.
Hugs Chris A

[Arizona]

What a gorgeous quilt!

[Lilly]

What a pretty quilt! My sis would love it. She likes all things chicken. I believe the chicken in quetion is a plymouth barred rock.

[Carin]

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.harvestofhistory.org/assets/object-images/main/dominique.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.harvestofhistory.org/primary_source_detail.html%3Fps_id%3D39&h=467&w=356&sz=66&hl=en&start=2&sig2=VkAj7_vgZOrIHcRQqrKbHQ&um=1&tbnid=Z5hd2pEe7cZHmM:&tbnh=128&tbnw=98&ei=5wEpSKvhKIyipwSKzPDLCw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblack%2Band%2Bwhite%2Bhen%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7TSHA%26sa%3DN
It looks like this kind of hen

[ilenia]

hallo! your blog is very very beautiful!! kiss ... Ilenia from Italy

[Lucy Locket-Pocket]

The quilt is gorgeous and I love the poem - I'll have to try to learn it! Lucy x

[Fran Graham]

Love your girls... just getting a couple myself!

The black/white hen, if her pattern is like banding, and has pinky/brown eggs, she's a "The Plymouth Rock" (see piccy)

If her feathers have a v pattern in white, and with white eggs, then she's a "Ancona". (see piccy)

Hope this helps!

[Fran Graham]

I forgot the piccies. woops!

This is an ancona, which I am 99% sure is your girl.

http://www.backyardpoultry.com/pics/anc1.jpg

[muffin]

thought the alphabet was really clever and although originally a londoner have never heard it before. All i have to do is remember it ...

[muffin]

thought the alphabet was really clever and although originally a londoner have never heard it before. All i have to do is remember it ...