Why did you choose your Gransnet Name?

My children called my mother it as her favourite programme was and still is 'Last Of The Summer Wine' and there's a character called Nora Batty

Think I must have been listening to Neil Sedaka on the radio.

Hi I'm Violet 🙂

My eldest grandchild was/is obsessed with dinosaurs and when we were playing at characters etc he said to me “you be Grandma dinosaur” and it stuck!

Because of my hair 🙂

However, it grew during lockdown.

My nickname at work.

I lurked on GN for a long time, I felt in a limbo between MN and GN, too old for one and too young for the other. One day I saw someone say something that I really wanted to reply to (probably to argue with!) and made up a name quickly and without thought. I am not that keen on my GN name, prefer my MN one which was a reference to my dad.

It’s from σιωπή, which is Ancient Greek for peace, or calm.

It is not an apt name for me, I just like the word.

My family nickname was ***bags

The day after my first grandchild was born my eldest brother phoned to congratulate me and said "Hello Grannybags"

I used to be a GPO telephonist, and started out as numberplease, then I became Callgirl1, problems arose, so I`m now Hellogirl1.

From the musician Raf Ravenscroft who played sax on 'Baker Street'. I just loved his name.

I've said this before but here goes.

One DD was talking to the other DD asking if they had a certain type of bag she could borrow.

Answer was no but ask mum she has "all sorts of bags". Yes I did have a suitable bag for DD to borrow :-)

When I needed a user name it just worked.

Now I could use "too many scarves" so culling bags and scarves will be part of the 23 in 23.

My daughter was pregnant with her first baby. Her first scan said it was twins. That was “TwiceasNice “. The twins are now 13

I love a biccy with my cuppa😃

...because I am a ...CLG..

I have family from Gujerat, where Dadima is the paternal grandmother, and Nanima is maternal grandmother. I am the paternal grandmother, but I added the other ‘d’ just because it looks better!

I tried one or two options but they were taken. I wanted to use *Willow" from the Joan Armatrading song, but that was taken so I changed the spelling to "willow".

song lyrics
www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Joan+Armatrading+willow+lyrics&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

sorry, "wyllow" mutter mutter predictive text.

what an interesting thread.

I'm enjoying the interesting and funny responses. Thanks for taking the time. You made me laugh Violet. I now know the correct name for a bottle brush shrub Callistemon21.

Mine is a combination of initials.

I originally had a name which people who knew me might recognise. I asked to change my name and was trying to think of something from nature that sounded pretty. This is the title of a 1960s song I heard being played when looking for a name.

I have 8 grandchildren. Plus 4 that are not actually mine but adult grandchildren by marriage. Looking forward to the birth of gt grandchild number 5 in a couple of month’s time. I was delighted to find gransnet because I assumed it was mainly for grandparents.

Whilst trying to choose a name The Ex-Wife was advertised on TV, I thought it would have been taken. It suits me anyway as I am an ex-wife.

Because of my undying admiration for the doyenne of the Broon family.