When I was young, we used to go egg hunting at my auntie's in the South of France for Easter. We would each have a basket, and would excitedly walk or more likely.. run around for what seemed to be hours (when I am sure it was no longer than half an hour really) to collect all the eggs meticulously hidden in the garden by my aunt.
I have always suspected some conspiracy between her and my cousins though, because it seemed that they always knew where to get the bigger ones, like this time where one of them found straight away the biggest of all, a big stork hidden in la rosace on the front side of the garden..
oh yeah definitely some cheating there ...
My aunt would also throw tiny eggs from the balcony and at the time I didn't know it was her doing so I remember looking up thinking that it was the big bell coming from Rome that was bringing me more eggs! heehee
So anyway, back to that one time.. once all the eggs were collected, we would all gather in the kitchen and put everything on the table and share the stuff, oeufs a la liqueur, small eggs, bigger ones, little hens etc. And so the six hens were put in the fridge for the night.
On the next morning, the little hens were gone! all gone! and guess who got the blame! oh yeah.. ME
I honestly can't remember if I ate them all, but I mean come on.. I can't even manage a whole egg these days! I'm thinking that my cousin, a chocolaholic she is, ate them all and blamed me thinking that nobody would punish me anyway cos i was the youngest (meh.. she probably didn't even care that I was gonna get punished or not) nor would they believe me when I was denying ...