STANDBY BY FOR EGG-TION!

This weekend my big sister and her family came over for a Xmas get together and as both mine and her birthday are near Xmas, we exchanged birthday gifts as well as presents for the big day. Knowing how impatient I am and still a big kid at heart, she insisted I open my birthday present while she was there. Inside was a set of three Thunderbirds egg cups, complete with International Rescue hat cozies!

To make it even more special, Carol had hand painted three wooden eggs with the likenesses of Scott, Virgil and John too! (Alan and Gordon were on a mission elsewhere apparently).

Shes knows that I have always been a Thunderbirds fan, but behind the idea of the painted eggs was another story.

When I was a boy and my sister was in senior school, she made a Thunderbirds puppet - a bit like the Pelham ones, with a tennis ball as Scott's head. He was strung and dressed in a hand made cloth uniform and looked amazing. When she brought him home, I made an immediate beeline for him, but given the weeks of careful preparation and fragility of the puppet, I was only allowed to admire him from afar.

Since then Scott Tracy has been a running joke between us and finding these lovely egg cups and cozies must have brought the old Scott puppet back for her, just as it did for me seeing the neat little hats! Its eggs for breakfast for me tomorrow!