Yippee! The Book has made its way down south to the Land of the Long Weekend! (That's Australia, in case you hadn't worked it out...)

I just wanted to comment about eggs standing on their ends on the equinox. The funny thing is that I'd never heard of this until I visited this site, and didn't know of the background until I read the book.

A good comparison for the belief is Thanksgiving Day, a day which appears to be a big issue for Americans, but not for anyone else in the world. You'd think that if there was anything to it, people outside the USA would've heard of it.

Incidentally, in Australia, the seasons start on the first of the month, not on the solstice or equinox. So if there was anything to this belief, when would our eggs stand up?

(Oh yeah, and the design of Australian toilets seems to be quite different from that of American toilets. What's this about the direction water flows when you flush a toilet?)