Originally Posted by
Farringdon
No, it's because all of them are literally called Nigel
I know he's not really Nigel, but one of the other dads at my son's school is a BA pilot, called Glen. Same era of name though.
Another aside, do any visit the town of Nigel, when on layover in JNB?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel,_Gauteng
(and looking up the origins of town name, it's named after a Nigel, a nobleman from a Walter Scott novel).
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