You'll never guess what they call her...

[sawyl]

From Sam Leith's interview with the ever wonderful AS Byatt in yesterday's Guardian came the reassuring news that we're not the only family to call our grandmother by her initials:

Everyone does seem to call her something different. "Antonia", "Dame Antonia", "ASB", "AS", or just - with lugubrious reverence - "The Dame". Born Antonia Susan Drabble, she writes under Byatt (the name of her first husband) and signs her emails "ASD" (her second husband is Peter Duffy). Her email address presents her as "Arachne". And her grandchildren, running into the room waving plastic toys, do, as promised, call her "AS".