my mum
was meant to be called elizabeth, but when my grandfather finally made it to register her birth, he saw that 5 of the girls previously registered were called elizabeth, so he registered her as jane. then forgot to tell my grandmother for a couple of weeks, so my mum spent the first month or so of her life as elizabeth, before being called jane.

i was going to be Rupert if i'd been a boy. in bloody glasgow. i'd have been lynched...
( ascorbate, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 10:46, Reply)