White Rabbits,

[Bathsheba]

White rabbits White rabbits. Wishing everyone a happy November :)

[waterboatman]

Happy November to you too Baffy. xxxxx

[Hopkirk]

Pinch punch

[1ozzy]

Could some kind soul explain to an uneducated antipodean the link between white rabbits and the first of November?

[JJ109]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_rabbit_rabbit

[rowanwitch]

White rabbits white rabbits white rabbits, it's like a sex shop on here....

[1ozzy]

Thanks JJ, a new one for me.

Now!!!

Rowan, apparently this is a family site ;-)

[emmie]

a new one on me too, never heard of that before

[rowanwitch]

Yeah, the Munsters

[1ozzy]

Adams family too?

Gomez is the one and only who knew how to play with train sets.

[rowanwitch]

One things for sure we are not the Waltons....

[waterboatman]

White Rabbits for the first of the month goes back centuries, when people were a lot more superstitious than they are now. It's was thought to bring good luck if it was the first thing said upon waking.

[rowanwitch]

I suspect it goes back even further than the wiki entry. It might have origins in hare lore. Hares were sacred to the moon goddess and as before there were months there were moons it was likely that to see a hare at a particular moon phase was considered a good omen

[waterboatman]

That's right rowan, probably from before what I posted above.

[rowanwitch]

Big on hare lore, love them

[waterboatman]

Me too. I love most wildlife.

[1ozzy]

The wilder the better..

[waterboatman]

You noticed! ;o}

[rowanwitch]

Oh burger, I have set them off now.

[1ozzy]

If you're admitting to being like me Boaty.....

Hang your head in shame ;-/

[237SJ]

I should have said White rabbits this morning - it might have worked. I knew I was going wrong somewhere!