Love the eggcup
As to the racket I have a treasured memory of one of my primary school headteachers (Mr Eastcrabbe) telling a story of a hen that always boasted about laying an egg - "Its a speckled egg, a speckled egg a speck, speck, speck, speck, speckled egg!"
- She was finally taught to be quiet, stop boasting and produced a lovely brood of chicks rather than having her eggs taken away.
37 years later I can still remember the story - maybe its his fault I've now got chickens