Given that infant!Bridget is said to look like Quuen Victoria, I wonder whether, had she been born twenty years later, she'd have been stuck with the nickname Winnie, since it is a truth universally acknowledged that Modern British Babies all look like Churchill.
Although one of the battier older ladies at church did exclaim, on seeing the vicar's new baby "Aw, bless him, he looks just like the Archbishop of Canterbury" which, given that the poor kid has no eyebrows to speak of, let alone a beard you could lose half of Synod in, was stretching it a bit...
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Given that infant!Bridget is said to look like Quuen Victoria, I wonder whether, had she been born twenty years later, she'd have been stuck with the nickname Winnie, since it is a truth universally acknowledged that Modern British Babies all look like Churchill.
Although one of the battier older ladies at church did exclaim, on seeing the vicar's new baby "Aw, bless him, he looks just like the Archbishop of Canterbury" which, given that the poor kid has no eyebrows to speak of, let alone a beard you could lose half of Synod in, was stretching it a bit...