Gemma celebrates web 2.Ooooh

I’ve finally succumbed to the vanity search. Well, I’ve already searched, but now I’m admitting to it.

Whilst my illustrious director works to propel himself to the top of Google, a quick check for my name shows this blog has already achieved that covetous spot; not really that surprising given my name combination:

1. Gemma: Many of my non-Brit friends had (surprising) never heard of my first name, infact one American actually pronounced it with a hard G - as in Gum.
2. Coward: Not exactly up there with the Smith & Jones’s of the world.

Shockingly enough however, a quick peek at spot #4 and my hopes and dreams of being unique in the world are shattered: Hello to the Gemma Coward of Sir Roger Manwood’s school in Sandwich, Kent!

Whilst I’m writing of the proliferation of the good Coward name, the real prompt for this post was tonight’s viewing of Edinburgh Fringe Festival coverage. I was just about to turn the very unfunny show off, when up popped ‘The Coward’s’, a four man sketch troupe soon to be heard on Radio 4 (review here). Sadly, my digibox recording of the show decided to cut off before I could see the rest of their sketch. However, in that short time, I did get to wondering what other Coward’s are out there (besides my most famous sur-namesake, Noel), and a quick check produced:

• Coward Shoes:
  

  Brand-name quality and comfort, sizes 4-14, widths N-WW

• Damon Coward:
  

  Songwriter in the style of Elvis Costello, REM, Strokes, Verve, Blur, Frank Black.

• Sharon Coward 
  Another songwrier, this time from Canada.
• An auctioneer, another sales person, a sculptor and a whole family of bloggers 

Hmm, I guess one famous person is enough ;)