A quick word on the name Diggory. I first came across the name in Thomas Hardy’s “The Return of the Native” where Diggory Venn is a reddleman. A reddleman, I take it, is someone who sells reddle, or iron ore pigment. I have always liked the name, and thought perhaps if I had a son I would call him Diggory – a nice masculine sounding name, that abbreviates to Dig, or Digger. Convenient for a football player. Of course, when we decided not to have any more children and looked around for a dog, the name was too good to waste – perfect for a dog, especially a terrier who likes to dig.

Other literary sightings of Diggory, include Uncle Digory (one ‘g’, I think, from C.S. Lewis’s “Magician’s Nephew”), and more recently, “Cedric Diggory,” Harry Potter’s ill-fated competitor in “The Goblet of Fire.”