Today I met my father and found out something new.
If I had been born a girl, I would have been called… Eleanor.
This prompted me to ask my friends if they knew what their own alternative-sex-name was. Tim Chipping knew his instantly: Esther Mary.
So, in some alternative-sperm-meets-egg universe, there was a band called Orlando featuring Eleanor Edwards and Esther Mary Chipping. We sound more like a couple of old ladies running an antiques shop in Long Melford.
