Oooh immaculate conception.
Brighton's only her middle name.Not quite so bad.
We kept Merlin's name quiet cos we were sick of other peoples opinions.We'd wanted to call Arthur Merlin but listened to other people and went with Arthur,which was 2nd choice.As soon as we knew Merlin was a boy we decided his name and that we'd tell no one.MIL actually phoned up to say you're not calling him that.Took great joy in saying we weren't when I knew we were.People's reaction when you tell them is usually "oh".Don't care,my baby.We get it a bit with Arwen,they ask is it Welsh.We tell them it's Elvish they usually go "that's nice" or again "oh"
Harry was nearly Horatio,after Admiral Nelson.He was so so lucky we saw sense.Merlin nearly had Pendragon as a middle name(King Arthur's middle name).Again lucky escape.
As for place of conception,if you've ever visited Chatham or Gillingham you'd know why we didn't use either,anyway they'd just sound stupid.
Matilda gets sung at,Waltzing Matilda of course but our kids watched a tv show where there was a magic cookery book called Matilda,and there's a song about it.They still sing at her.