How hard can it be??? (apologies to Jeremy Clarkson)

The Royal Melbourne Hospitals’ mobility unit is just nearby and so one of the “features” of my new station is limbless people. I have made friends with a young one legged Palestinian man who pushes round a wheelchair so that he can rest while he gets used to his new leg. Yesterday he showed me a list of new names he is making. Apparently the people he sees daily can’t manage his real name so he trying to work out what to change it too. Since his real name is the same as a well known Australia river, I’m not sure what their problem is. I told him they should learn and he said they hadn’t in the year he’d known them so they were unlikely to start now.