December! It’s a tinsel-strewn, winter wonderland of a birthday month. December birthdays are a bonus celebration at what’s already proven to be “the most wonderful time of the year”. People are well and truly in a party mood with Christmas just an Advent calendar’s countdown away. Trees are being decorated,…
Nippy November is a golden phizzwizard of a birthday month. November birthdays sneak in just when everyone’s gearing up for the winter holidays – but no one’s yet suffering eggnog burnout. The chill in the air still feels novel, and everyone’s showing off their snazziest scarves. So November babies have…
What does it mean to be born in September? Are September babies as prone to change as the season they were born into? Do they especially love a cookout? I’ve already dug deep into what’s wonderful about the children of July and August. Onwards and upwards, to September we go. What…
AUGUST is upon us, and with it a whole host of birthdays. Yes: this is actually the most popular month to be born in the US, and one of the most popular in the UK as well. The dead of winter’s just nine months prior to August, so I’ll let…
JULY is June’s even hotter, even stickier twin. The solstice has come and gone, and we really are in the thick of it now. Welcome to summer in earnest. What does it mean to be born in July? Are summertime babies different from the rest of us? What kind of…
Bumps, ear-pulling, nose-greasing, or just a good belting. Where did the idea of celebrating your birth start? The ancient pharaohs were the first civilisation to celebrate birthdays. However, the hieroglyphics are unclear whether they celebrated their birth as a human or their birth as a god – which happens to…
Let’s start with the most fundamental reason of all. 1. It’s impossible to sing. Granted, I’m borderline tone deaf so I may struggle more than most. The first 4 notes are downright depressing, like the distant moan of an old diesel engine warming up. Then the emphasis is clearly on…
I’m not talking about the usual physiological slippages such as paunches, pop bellies and body parts migrating south. Or grey hairs, receding hairlines or your skin feeling a little too big for your body. Or even those common psychological intruders like confusion with technology or what ‘young people’ are talking…
I can already see the ghoulish faces, the hirsute werewolf masks and the sporadic Shrek costumes dotted around my neighbourhood. Goody bags opened wide with the sweet smell of optimism in the air, hoping that this year the haul is going to be bigger than the last. That’s right, October…
