Local contemporary classical group Paragon Ensemble staged a small history lesson last week, on local 100 year dead luminary Lord Kelvin. Amid an interesting electro/classical score, interpretations of Kelvin life were portrayed with a moving simplicity by a group of individuals with  Down’s Syndrome.

Apart from a show tune with dancing Kelvinator fridges perhaps stretching the history a little far, we learnt that in a canny moment of foresight, when knighted the prosaically named William Thompson chose the name of the local river and surrounding suburbs – Kelvin for his title thus creating the appearance that they had been named after him! It’s a concept that could be applied equally well to all of us – pick your place, object or political party of high repute (oh that’s already been done Mr Left Focus ) and change your name to suit …