I'm a September baby, Christmas conception. It depends entirely on where you are. In the UK, nutrition would be at it's best in the 3rd month onwards, it's those first 3 that are the lean months, the ones before most people realise they are actually pregnant, the ones they tell us are the most important after the 3 months before actually getting pregnant, which would be just after the harvest, so fairly good, nutrition wise, but horrible for winter colds/flu etc.

I wouldn't say I'm stupid (just naturally blonde!), in fact, the opposite when I compare myself to my work colleagues (who never read this site, being interested in beer, sex and raucous music..... er.....), none of whom have a September birthday.

There was a theory that babies born in late summer/autumn were unlucky - based entirely on the fact that if you were born in August, your mum was unable to help with the harvest, so it wasn't really you that was unlucky, but your dad/family, who had one less able body to help out. June weddings were popular because it usually meant the first baby was born in March/April, and you were allegedly well enough by August/September to help with harvest, carried through the winter - all that extra body heat meant less fuel used - I was so hot I wore short sleeves and sandals with 3 feet of snow on the ground! The planting could still be done before you got too fat and then you just sat and waited out the cold months of spring before the sprog appeared. It was usually 'detachable' by August, in that it would start to sit up and could be left for a while, and you were fit enough to help with the harvest.

As for horoscopes, being a Virgo (with insomnia) is it any wonder I've gone on for nearly a page!

I'm sceptical, I'm not convinced that if they are the same planets, why don't astrologists all get the same reading? Three different people will come up with totally conflicting information from the same set of stars...

Having said that, there is a chap at work who can't take a dump without consulting his horoscope.... he says I compete with men too much as a typical Virgo. I just say I'm really a dragon, why should I drag myself down to the level of men?

As far as the Chinese horoscope goes, I am that dragon (1964), I married a ram (I think, he could be a rat or a monkey), but I don't know what the Bratling is... March 1996 anyone?? Probably the duck.

LTS