Reasons to be happy about 2011 being the Year of the Rabbit

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What do Frank Sinatra, Germaine Greer, Jane Seymour and George Michael have in common?

Give up? Apparently they were all born in the Year of the Rabbit.

And, in case you didn’t know, a Year of the Rabbit  begins on February 3, 2011 and ends on January 22, 2012. 

The good news is that a Rabbit year is supposed to be good for calming the nerves and, Izzy Muses for one could do with a bit of nerve calming.  

Being a Year of the Pig girl myself, apparently I’m compatible with the Rabbits  so I hope to run into a few fun bunnies in 2011. I’ll also be making lots of wishes this year as apparently it’s a good year for getting what you want. 

By all accounts, it’s going to be a great year for Rabbits and Pigs and indeed Sheep but sadly the omens are not quite so promising for Roosters.

 Did you know that a happy rabbit purrs just like a cat? Or that the ten most famous rabbits of all time were allegedly:

• The White Rabbit – featured in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (1865)
• Peter Rabbit – created by Beatrix Potter (1902)
• Simply known as ‘Rabbit’ inWinnie the Pooh (1926)
• Thumper – featured in the Disney classic Bambi (1942)
• Bugs Bunny – made famous by Loony Toons (1944)
• Miffy – created by Dutch author & illustrator Dick Bruna (1955)
• Dillon – character from The Magic Roundabout (1963)
• Watership Down – a book and animated film about a herd of rabbits (1972)
• Roger Rabbit – from the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• Energise Rabbit – created as part of the battery manufacturers advertising campaign (1989)

I bet you’re dying to know what your Chinese Zodiac sign is by now. There’s loads of places online to check it out. Here’s one, just to make it easy http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/new-idea/article/-/5989479/chinese-horoscopes-what-sign-am-i/

And let me be the first to wish you Happy Year of the Rabbit.