Parents can make you look a proper Charlie

It took my wife and me weeks, if not months, to find suitable names for our children. Every other day after their birth – or so it felt – my father would ring up and say: "Do we know what we're calling the new baby yet?" And every other day, I'd snap back, increasingly testily: "If you rush us, we'll get it wrong, and your poor grandchildren will have to live with the consequences for the rest of their lives."

How right it was, too. The more I think about, the gladder I am that we eventually d...