Chinese New Year is on the 28th of January. On that day, we say goodbye to the Year of the Monkey and greet the Year of the Rooster.
I am sure that for most of us, last year has been a bit of a shocker. The monkeys have really been up to their monkey business.
One hopes that the Rooster will crow in a better year and so that is my new year wish for all of us. May it be the break of dawn after a dark night. May it be a return to sunnier times.
There is an additional point of interest for me this year as my sister-in-law is expecting her first child, a daughter. Her due date is 26th of January. If she is on time or early then, the baby would be a Monkey according to the Chinese Zodiac but just a couple of days later and the child will be a Rooster. With no track record (being her first child), the bookmakers are refusing to offer odds.
What do you think? Monkey or Rooster. Either way, I pity the child cause we all know Tiger is best, Squirrel is ‘best’-er and Tiger Squirrels are the super ‘best’-est!
Realm of the Lone Grey Squirrel 
Not knowing how the biology of timing works I can only say that my daughter tried to have a millennium baby, but was delivered on the 28th of December, 1999. I have a hard time figuring out the maths of my granddaughters age.
Tiger-squirrel must be best of all. I know they are highly prized for the ste..oh sorry I am trying to stop with the food jokes.
Mark,
Please go have a big steak dinner. Maybe that will get your mind off squirrel food. So how many grandkids in the clan?
Congratulations either way!
But Snake is best.
Sx
Congratulations! My sister and I are both dragons.
Scarlet,
My wife is a snake too. But she used to claim that she was a rabbit. I always say that this rabbit speaks with forked tongue!
RK,
I have to say that a gun-toting dragon kitty is a fearsome thought!
Yay for us tigers!
Monkeys, I like, but my country has surely elected a crowing cock.
Hase, hare or rabbit is also not bad, we are of good nature.
Best of luck for mother and child !
Secret Agent,
Being a secret agent, isn’t there something you can do to silence the crowing?
Mago,
Ah, have you forgotten the killer rabbit from Monty Python’s Holy Grail?
2 at the moment and most likely the end. 17 yr old grand daughter and 2.5 year old grandson. My kids are all getting to the end of their biologic clocks.
Yes – I forgot ! And “The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” too !
My brain is mushy.