Victoria Beckham's faith in any old bollocks is almost heartbreaking

Victoria Beckham is, like Henry VIII in reverse, desperate for a daughter - well, you can't really pass eating disorders and a pointless obsession with fashion to a boy in the same way, can you? So she's turning to "science" (by science, we mean bollocks) to make it happen:

Posh is so determined she has put David on a special "daughter diet" - rich in alkaline foods. She has also pledged to get a tattoo of an ethnic fertility sign.

Apparently you can't have dairy, despite, erm, milk being alkaline. And we're not sure that the tattoo thing has yet been put up for peer-reviewed testing.

If she really wants a girl, couldn't she just buy one like everyone else?