Andrew Lloyd

If there's something about the name that makes you connect to them more closely.

So I hosted my own Drew Fest.

I travelled up to Manchester and we got about, I think it was 11 Andrews in the same room.

That was absolutely so fascinating because you're so right.

If you were to join another Facebook group, say, if you're a fan of golf or a fan of skateboarding, immediately you have something in common.

But because we only had our name in common, there was no guarantee that we would get on, have anything to chat about.

And the group was an eclectic bunch.

So there was me there as a journalist, but then we also had a wedding DJ.

There was a restaurant area manager.

And then we kind of sat at this table at first and we were just discussing the council.

But then gradually then it's almost like we forgot we were there because we were called Andrew.

And then we just found out actually we did have certain things in common.

We had shared interests.

And it's just fascinating because we knew that if we hadn't joined the council, there's no chance any of us would have been sat at the same table at that point in time.

I think not so much because when I spoke to these Andrews, they had been in the group for many years.

This had been going on since 2019, as I say.

So I think their experience of Andrews was they knew thousands and thousands of Andrews who were actually good Andrews.

I'm sure there is as well.

So I found a bunch more.

And in fact, I realized that the Council of Andrews is not even the biggest same name group.