
What's in a Name?
“Scrawny Monkey”, Nameless, Anna-Marie, Anna, YaYa, George, A-M, Louisa... I've collected a variety of names over my lifetime. For the record I (apparently) resembled a scrawny monkey, when born nearly two months premature during the famous political “Winter of Discontent” when Newcastle entirely ground to a halt with 70cm of snow. The name debate between my parents lasted a while (hence “Nameless”) until “Anna-Marie” trumped “Laura” to the post. This decision was based on th