I'm gonna start - in my efforts to avoid Woods for the Trees becoming a venting post for my thoughts - a kind of blog here.

With that, let me talk about names...

I've been thinking for a while the power of certain names to stir deep feelings - and forgive me for sounding ever-so wanky - but I thought I'd share my thoughts. Like how you just know a bus route with a name like "X39" will be proper shit and late, or how "Illustrious" sounds like a good name for a battleship, or how someone who has the name "Tarquin" will in all inevitability be a tosspot.

Some names have connotations.

"Auschwitz" and "Chernobyl" to even the furthest outsider sound like names where bad shit happened. Or is that feeling merely because I know what those names signify?

More UK centric names, names stuck in the national conciousness for now until perpetuity, like "Churchill", or more "two islands" centric with words like "Harlech" "Bogside" "Bannockburn" "Hastings" and "Trafalgar". These are names that will live from now until the current civilisation on those two islands ceases to exist, until there is no Wales, no England, nor Scotland or either Irelands. Those names just "sound" north-west european islands-y, or is it me?

Names like "Lexington" just sound American...they just to my mind don't sound like they could come from anywhere else - not even Australia and that place is fucken mad as a box of frogs!