Today is 08-08-08
So what? So, according to Madame A, today is a lucky day!
Wrote Madame A:
8 is my favourite digit and a lucky number in the Chinese culture, and tomorrow is 08-08-08! I'll be at the track, or at least scratching cards. Well, if I can be bothered. But I can definitely be bothered to stop by the Elizabeth Arden counter at House of Fraser in Monument, for an Eight Hour Cream freebie.
And then she went on to tell us about the cream, which Miss Arden used to use on her thoroughbred horses' legs. And apparently was named because a loyal customer used it on her daughter's skinned knee, and eight hours later the skin was better. And which Madame A uses on her lips and hands.
Of course she does.
But I'm more interested in this luck thing, and here's what I found out:
Eight is a lucky number in Chinese culture because it sounds like the word "prosper" or "wealth". Sounds good.
Furthermore, in numerology, eight is the number of building, but then can also be the number for destruction. Hmm.
And then I started thinking about the number eight in culture.
There was the eight-track cassette, Avril Lavigne's Sk8er Boi, and Corey Taylor from Slipknot, whose stage name is #8. Eight maids a-milking can be found at Christmas, eight tentacles can be found on an octopus, eight legs on a spider, and eight vegetables can be found in V8 juice. The first set of surviving octuplets were born in 1998, and according to the Mormons, it's the age at which we're responsible for our own actions. (Isn't Wikipedia grand?)
And in current affairs, of course, the Olympics start in Bejing today.
But maybe I should get my priorities straight. After all, a freebie is a freebie, and if Eight Hour Cream was good enough for Elizabeth's horses, surely it's good enough for me.
8 is my favourite digit and a lucky number in the Chinese culture, and tomorrow is 08-08-08! I'll be at the track, or at least scratching cards. Well, if I can be bothered. But I can definitely be bothered to stop by the Elizabeth Arden counter at House of Fraser in Monument, for an Eight Hour Cream freebie.
And then she went on to tell us about the cream, which Miss Arden used to use on her thoroughbred horses' legs. And apparently was named because a loyal customer used it on her daughter's skinned knee, and eight hours later the skin was better. And which Madame A uses on her lips and hands.
Of course she does.
But I'm more interested in this luck thing, and here's what I found out:
Eight is a lucky number in Chinese culture because it sounds like the word "prosper" or "wealth". Sounds good.
Furthermore, in numerology, eight is the number of building, but then can also be the number for destruction. Hmm.
And then I started thinking about the number eight in culture.
There was the eight-track cassette, Avril Lavigne's Sk8er Boi, and Corey Taylor from Slipknot, whose stage name is #8. Eight maids a-milking can be found at Christmas, eight tentacles can be found on an octopus, eight legs on a spider, and eight vegetables can be found in V8 juice. The first set of surviving octuplets were born in 1998, and according to the Mormons, it's the age at which we're responsible for our own actions. (Isn't Wikipedia grand?)
And in current affairs, of course, the Olympics start in Bejing today.
But maybe I should get my priorities straight. After all, a freebie is a freebie, and if Eight Hour Cream was good enough for Elizabeth's horses, surely it's good enough for me.
Here Is The Writer : The Shopaholics
Madame A and Madame B live in penthouses down the hall from each other not far from The Square Mile. One works for an American bank, one is
just an American. Both require their identities to be secret for a
variety of reasons, but mostly because they'd like to stay out of hot
water with their partners and bank managers.
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