The Curate's Egg

The term The Curate's Egg derives from a cartoon published in the humorous British magazine Punch on 9 November 1895. Drawn by George du Maurier and entitled True Humility, it pictures a timid-looking curate eating breakfast in his bishop's house. The bishop remarks with candid honesty to his lowly guest: "I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones." The curate replies, desperate not to offend his eminent host and ultimate employer: "Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!"

It has been a bit of of a curate's egg kind of day today. One minute blue skies with scudding, wooly clouds. The next, dark storm clouds and showers of snow and hail. All to the tune of a howling wind. Good bits and bad bits!