You don't have to be sane, to be a parent

I found out this week what Tom’s children are called. Are you ready for this? Their names are, in order of age, Robson, Jameson, Storm, Tennyson and Rainbow.
I thought at first he was a bit of a hippy, but Philippa informs me that he names his children after the circumstances in which they were conceived. Firstly, why would you do that? And secondly, why would you share that information with others?
ROBSON (who is female, by the way) was conceived during England’s successful World Cup campaign of 1990. Her full name is something like Robson Beardsley Lineker Scott, but she’s always insisted on being called Bobby. I can’t think why. JAMESON was the result of a bottle of Irish Whiskey during a camping trip. STORM was created when the electrics went out during a thunderstorm and ‘they couldn’t think of anything else to do.’ TENNYSON obviously has a poetry connection: Tom was in the bad books at home, but got back in his wife’s favours by serenading her with some of her favourite poems. And that leaves RAINBOW. I thought she may have been named after a nice romantic moment where her parents lay in each others arms and a rainbow appeared overhead. But no. Tom got over-excited while driving so they stopped the car and had sex… on the car park at a Rainbow superstore.

RC 12-6-10