Out of ashes comes beauty! Thanks for sharing, expat! Made me smile too.
By the way, it is funny you should bring up a lorrie. Through my life I got tired of people spelling my name Lori, or asking how to spell it and saying that my way is the "male version" so I used to say "you can spell it any way you want except l.o.r.r.i.e. because that's an English truck! Sure would make people look!
Now it is my last name people have problems with (they want to spell it phonetically as BUYER) so my DH and BIL always say "just spell it "beer" with an i in the middle....again the looks! Great things to smile about though.