How did you get your Gransnet name? (lighthearted)

We had just been on holiday and seen puffins for the first time ... fascinating little birds!

I was out in the garden and had just decided to join you all. I found someone already had the name I had thought of and was trying to think of another name when a Robin with a particularly red breast hopped onto the feed tray. So that was how it was decided. I just added a random number.

Chose mine from a title of a Catherine Cookson book.

Had to change my name at one point, and was listening to
'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring'.

Simply a childhood nickname.

The first part is my school nickname, strangely the second half was due to a GC asking me the meaning of the word.

Tried to think of a name when I first joined, but none were excepted. had a travel brochure next to my computer about Dubrovnik, and Kupari was on the map of the area.

I had to keep my mouth shut about certain things with some people so came here to find an outlet, it seems to have worked!

It is my lovely Granny’s name and also my granddaughter’s name.

My work was foot health care . I visited regular clients in their homes. One lovely client told me he and his wife had nicknames for family and friends and I was Miss Toe Toe

At the time I signed up for Gransnet I had an allotment, which was taking up a signifigant amount of my time.

It was the name I used on a forum for carers of people with dementia. Nuff sed really! Couldn’t be bothered at the time to think of another.

Two of my GC called me Ga Ga when they were very small. I always hoped it would stick as I thought it was pretty cool - but it soon morphed into Grandma. It was the first name that came into my mind when I signed up (and I do love Lady Ga Ga!)

I’ve got 8 grandchildren - so nanna8. I also have 6 great but thought that was a bit much ( I’m not that old ,my mob started young !)

It rhymes with my name and was my nickname at primary school, and it has nothing to do with my hair being curly, it's straight!

Because I have been…..

I saw the name in a magazine article on online dating and liked it as it suggested champagne and parties and fun. Earlier this year when I mentioned on a thread that I don't drink, a couple of posters suggested I was lying because of my GN name. In actual fact, the name "Sparklefizz" is the nearest I get to alcohol.

LovesBach. I always thought you were Welsh as Bach in that language means little. It never occurred to me it was the composer Bach.

My original name was a mixture of my two forenames. I can't remember now why I decided to change it, but looking in the mirror, the one I have since gone by was appropriate then and is even more appropriate now.

I was 56 and from Cumbria when I joined, it's that boring.

We had just moved into our present home and the garden had not been touched for years It was wild

So boring it’s hardly worth explaining. I’m a grandma and I was in my 70s when I chose the name. I’m in my 80s now.

I’m a simple soul. There’s no imagination in mine, we live on a corner.

I used this name as DD1 used this as a nickname for me when she had DGD1. Not really sure why!

I had been showing gc how to do it.