Why did you choose your name?

I love snow and ice, and Queen! (And it seemed like a good idea at the time. Sigh.)

It's what my best friends call me and that makes me happy inside ...

It was as I was affectionately known in a previous life, as I did so many different jobs (e.g. what hat are your wearing today?) within one job title!!! I rather like it.

Yes Nellie I know who you are

Think there was a thread on this recently, but here goes. I put it together on one of those sites where you answer favourite? Questions to get a user name. Oddly I like purple, but am not that keen on daffodils, but perhaps it was spring when I answered the questions. I prefer the interesting ones other people have. Would change it, but CBA.

I chose my name Sillynanny because whenever I do something to make the grankids laugh they always say "silly nanny"

A great thread, as I am sure that many of us wonder - both at the personality behind the name (or is it just me?!) and the derivative of the name itself. Some G'netters are v clever with their nom de plumes!

Mine is very boring - my husband's name begins with C and mine with an L. Says it all really!

Thanks, Gammon for starting the thread.

Mine should be 'gillyogg' (my daughter created it for me ) but for some reason it always comes up with the y missing! My user name is 'knittingnana' because its what I do!

I thought ethel sounded unusual these days and I like tea so I became ethel t bags, they wouldn't let me just be etheltbags so I| had to add a number1 hence etheltbags1. easy.

Have you always had that 't' in there etheltbags? I've never noticed it before. Always thought you were ethelbags!

You must be another one.

I have noticed that some people call me ethelbags I don't like it, I am ethel tee bags. I thought they were being nasty.

I wish that I had chosen something clever and would change if we could. Mine is from a great,great,great grandmother. I thought it quite an unusual name for a daughter of a farm labourer.

Oh FGS ethel tee bags 1 give it a rest! Change your name to something else if you don't like people abbreviating your username.

I used my favourite colour and pushed the first letter of my name to the last!!

Sounds etheltbag1 like you might be having an off night Perhaps things will look better in the morning.

ana don't be so nasty as you usually are, I don't mind my name being abbreviated to ethel but I just don't like anyone missing my 't' out.
Stop always finding fault with my comments.

Nocherrytree59 Im not having an off night its just that people like ana make me sick. Nit pickers

I chose my name HappyNan1becausebi was so happy at becoming a nana. Of course I'm still very happy at being a nana but don't like the name I chose as I think it sounds twee, a bit goodytwoshoes and I'm frequently not a happynan

I'm Ben's nan -simples!

I am an ELderly RELative! Simples too!

This is the first forum I joined (only one actually) so I had to think up a name on the spot. I have always been passionate about books and been very involved in campaigning for various things. My grandchildren called me Grannybook and one of my children jokingly called me Mummyactivist: so I combined the two.

A very descriptive name Grannyactivist. Mine is pretty ordinary. Nan obviously and the mixed up names of the two GCs I see daily.

Mine is the fact that I was a beekeepers wife !!!

Because of my grand daughter's love of all things Peppa Pig - and because I really am very silly. I do the daftest things.

I like butterflies and Purple Hairstreak is the name of one. There's also a Green Hairstreak and a Brown Hairstreak butterfly, but the Purple was most appealing - as well as having a slightly "oddball" image!