overwhelming workload: no, it was because there was a full moon.As a seven-year-old, I found this rather alarming. I had recently heard about werewolves, and wondered if my mum was one.
As I got older, I concluded that the full moon turned her into nothing more than a snake oil saleswoman, who used lunar activity and planetary alignments as excuses for the frustrating condition that is being a human with a brain. ‘Oh, I’m feeling ever so sensitive today – it must be a full moon,’ she would say as, looking back, she was clearly going through the menopause.
And if she couldn’t complete a task, she would put it down to Mercury being in retrograde, rather than anything to do with taking on too much.
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