Lacking proof of identity

Last Saturday night we had a family outing to a police station on planet Earth. Despite having all our papers in order, including reissued birth certificates no more than six months old, and using our connections to avoid a lengthy weekday queue, we failed to complete our children’s biometric passports. The computer would recognise only two first names, and both children have three each. We puzzled over this: dropping the third name meant the papers would not match, and sticking the second and third name together on the passports looked dodgy. So back again to …