Wow, isn't it great to be old, well oldish anyway. Most of the difficult decisions in life have been made, where to live, which career to rise to dissy heights of mediocraty in, what to name your children.

Excuse me for a minute! "Vegemite, can you put the rubbish tins out please"

Sorry about that, it is rubbish collection day in The Green Man's neighbourhood.

As you would imagine The Green Man is a trend setter so it is not surprising that the USA is only now catching up with the concept of naming your children after your favourite product, edible or otherwise. The BBC reports on this growing trend. Names being chosen range from perfume brands and automobile models. In Nebraska there are 55 young boys who'll come running if you call out "Chevy", for example, and 5 girls if you yell "Celica". The name that has got me stumped though is "ESPN", is that pronounced "E.S.P.N." or "Espen", I guess I'll just wait till the unfortunate boys carrying this monicer get old enough and ask them.