The fourth month...

While you weren't looking, April sneaked in. Yes that's right, it may only seem five minutes since the new year, but in fact, we are now into the fourth month, and a quarter through the year.

In fact, today is the 4th of the 4th, so I thought you might be interested in some four-related facts.  You could even call it 4-play...

• Four-leafed clovers are considered to be lucky. You may know that. This may or may not be because druids thought the fourth leaf afforded them magical protection (source: lucky-four-leaf-clover.com)
• Possibly not unrelated to the above, a tetradite is someone who attaches mystical properties to the number four.
• In Chinese, the word for 'four' sounds like the word for 'death'. As a result, many hospitals don't have 4th floors (allegedly).
• Four spacecraft have visited Saturn.  That's Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 & 2 and the Cassini-Huygens mission.  That's 4 earth craft, at any rate....

and finally (well, doing four for four would be a little too conventional, don't you think), I give you the Four Treasures of the Tuatha De Danaan

1. The Stone of Fal, which would cry out under the king who was sovereign of Ireland
2. The Spear of Lug, with which its wielder could not be defeated
3. The Sword of Nuada, which could not be resisted when drawn from its sheath, and
4. The Cauldron of the Dagda, which could feed any size of company.

Four sure!