When you hit 50 hre in NL, your family makes a straw doll of you - with characteristic features! - and dumps it in front of your door for a few days leading up to the b-day, with "Fifty years old today - Abraham."
Apparently a biblical ref to the eponymous old bloke in the book.
So jist be happy the rest o the street's no lookin at your blotchy napper all week!