Thursday, August 25

Tigger, Paint, Ferrari, Grid...

So there's an odd thing with names over here - there's apparently some government decree that everybody's got to have a different name, and so most people have the most crazily long and unpronounceable names. It's so impractical that everybody also has an official "nickname", and real names are seldom used. And some of the nicknames are pretty random - at Sara's school there's a Paint, a Ferrari, a Tigger and a Pooh, a Grid(?), two sisters called Kit and Kat, and believe it or not, a young lad called Bogey. Calling the register has never been so much fun!