Your fascinating choice of pseudonames

Mine is to remind myself to always try to look for the silver lining in any situation, dont always succeed, particularly this year, but do my best.

I live next to the river and go on regular walks alongside - today's will be a three-hour round trip with a pub lunch half way

I am always surprised when I see my name on here, sounds far too girly for me. It is simply the first bits of my two forenames back to front. There are some brilliant names on here, some of which I positively covet! Do you fine you get a picture in your mind's eye from some of them? Greyduster always conjures up an image of an American Indian for some reason. Quite why a Native American should have an affinity with dusters I have no idea. Similarly Imperfect27 reminds me of old fashioned typewriters. Why?

Mine is very unimaginative - just the first syllable of my first and middle names. Boring!

My grandad used to call me Lindylou and 51 is the house number of my childhood home.

Mine was invented by a young man I knew online when we were trying to hide me from my ex. Unbeknown to me he had hacked my computer prior to me escaping and knew all the sites I belonged to. When I escaped he joined the sites (often pretending to be a woman) and basically stalked me online. At the time vampirequeen was the furthest away from the real me and we thought it might confuse him.

Funny how you grow into your name after a while...it's far more apt now

Mine is a nickname used by a favourite uncle and a really good friend and my home town (ish).

Although I have inventive names on other sites I just went with my real name, sort of. It's just nice to see Jacky spelt the way I've always spelt it. No one else seems to be able to spell it that way these days. They keep adding 'q's and things.

I used to be a telephone operator, back in the days of the GPO. I started out on here as numberplease, but one day GN was temperamental and wouldn`t let me in, so I reinvented myself!

I'm quite blessed in the hair department! My DS started to call me Chewbacca after a particularly disastrous visit to an ex hairdresser. Plus, I'm a grumpy sod and I can, with little effort, sound like Chewbacca on an off day.

I have just realised. How clever

My name's a simple pseudonym.

mines simple.my name is Patricia ,my Irish granny used to sing a song to me about a Patricia...there was a line in it..."though her daddy called her Paddy for he hoped she'd be a laddie ,she's as sweet and gentle as a lass can be " so the nickname Paddyann stuck and she called me Paddy all the time.My granny was my hero,a suffragette and a very strong minded woman,thats where the political me comes from

My last job was with The Pension Service. Plus my younger son loved Postman Pat.

Mine kind of goes without saying

Mine was my nickname at work. No-one ever used my name, even the Head teacher called me Marydoll or MD.

I'm a simple soul, I live on a corner so it describes me perfectly.

Mine is the the name of my last gorgeous cat who was male and I added girl to show that I was a female.

Mine is an abbreviation of my middle name and a random letter! I meant to put a full stop before the end 'k' but forgot!

For some reason (?!) I am known by some family members as the Christmas Grump.

Mine is just the first part of my email address. I was lacking in imagination when I joined, and couldn't think of a good user name.

Mine ( like Swanny )is a name I was called by someone special when I was a child.

I'm glad you like my name grannysue. I always thought it was a bit uninspired really! At the time I joined GN I was working shifts, often into the early hours of the morning and at least once a week an overnighter all alone in an office building. I actually signed up during a (quiet) night shift and had to think of a name quickly - being very sleep-deprived at the time it was the first thing that came to mind.

It's a bit of a misnomer now- I gave up shift work three years ago and have become more of a dormouse. Maybe I should change my name

I am what I am..

I had been on holiday to Petra not long before I joined.