“Your shell isn’t a lie, it’s the line that keeps you safe.”

We look at those hens with colourful eggs, afro-style combs, feathers on their legs like they’re rocking cosy house slippers, and we think: what a kind of freedom that is, walking through the world without asking permission to be different.

Because you’ve got a shell too. Sometimes it’s your humour. Sometimes it’s the way you talk. Sometimes it’s that “not today, I can’t” you say with a half-smile so you don’t crumble right there in the kitchen. And hey, a shell doesn’t have to be hard. It can be colourful. It can bend. It can be your way of being here without everything getting under your skin.

And then there’s this seriously mind-blowing science thought: under all that wrapping, what it started as was a cell. One. Tiny, but with a huge plan. Maybe today doesn’t need you to be a “perfect egg”. Maybe it needs you to protect your centre and choose what layers you put on before you go out and live.

What layer have you been wearing lately just to get through, and which one would you like to wear today to enjoy things a little more, even if it’s proud blue-egg mode?