I was touched by Gordon Brown's faith in his old Kirkaldy High School motto but it made me wonder what the hell my school motto was and had I , inadvertently, been living by it.

Wikipedia tells me my school motto was Misericordias Domini In Aeternum Cantabo aka 'I will sing praises to the Lord forever'. So that's a "No" I think. If I go back to my exclusive prep school then I don't fare much better: Arduus ad Solem (which I could still remember!) aka 'Struggle towards the sun'. 'Struggle towards the snow' - that's a bit closer but I suppose doesn't count.

Wikipedia also told me something else I didn't know: that there's a Japanese pop group named after my school! abingdon boys school have a single out next month. That's just weird.