Shall I change my name?

If you want to but my name was plucked out of thin air because I had just found GN and wanted to disagree with someone about something I read. I don't know about others but I rarely pay any attention to peoples user names unless they are clever/funny.

Congratulations on the new arrival!

If you're happy with it, stay with newatthis, after all, being a grandparent is a constant learning curve!

Sorry - Newatthis

You see, I am often on lots of threads with Allira but it is only just now that I am wondering what her username means.

I just happened to be having tea and a biscuit when I joined this site😄

I would stick with Newatthis as it is charming and original.

I don't know about other GNs, but I have been a granny for nearly two decades and I still feel 'new at this' sometimes.

One of my GCs is going through a heartbreak following the break of their first romance and I am not at all sure how to help them.

Galaxy were you eating chocolate when you joined GN?

A few posters like to change their names. Some do it fairly frequently.

No Magenta for some reason I was thinking about space

I often read the name and get it a bit wrong. For example Hithere. For a long time I read that as Hit here. Not what I suppose she/he meant Hi there.

I just like the word of my name. And always liked sitting on that coconut mat to whizz down to the bottom and then struggle back up the steps again.

Mine was chosen because I happened to be thinking of my Aunt and she used to describe her brothers-in-law as getting squiffy! It’s such a descriptive word. Ironic, too, as I don’t drink alcohol!

FriedGreenTomatoes2

A few posters like to change their names. Some do it fairly frequently.

Do they?

I thought only two name changes are allowed on here?

I’m not sure how they do it fancythat I think they use someone else’s computer to re register - so it has a different IP address. Often the style in the way they post gives them away anyway.

I always read Hi there as hither rhyming with dither the penny only dropped some months back
I couldn’t think of anything original and was looking at flowers in front of me …..hence Bluebelle which I ve been ever since 13 years now

I am not at liberty to reveal the origin of my name . . .

you could be new at anything so why change your name when you can comment at anything you want

HelterSkelter1

I often read the name and get it a bit wrong. For example Hithere. For a long time I read that as Hit here. Not what I suppose she/he meant Hi there.

I just like the word of my name. And always liked sitting on that coconut mat to whizz down to the bottom and then struggle back up the steps again.

Yes, I do that! I have changed mine once, when someone I knew realised who I was and began to play silly games. I came off GN for 6 months and came back with a new name.

Mind you, it was disconcerting, how quickly regular embers sussed me out and PMd me to say. Were you..........?

I’ve a different name to when I first found Gransnet.

welbeck

I am not at liberty to reveal the origin of my name . . .

I always think of Welbeck College, a boy I knew in my teens went there.

I have kept the same name, and sometimes wonder about other names but the one that I always have to look twice at is Redcar, who actually I believe lives in Essex. As I live in Yorkshire, I have to remind myself that they are not in actual Redcar up here in the north east. I usually go onto the morning group, but also look at other threads sometimes.

Newatthis, why change your name, you have introduced yourself now!

Mine was meant to say SOres, as in,
South Oxfordshire resident
I wasn’t quick enough with the shift key

Welbeck! is this a cryptic clue you have provided?
or will you be forever
mysterious …

Please be aware that trolls take a usernames names and changed a capital for lower case or add a number. This has happened mainly on the estrangement forum .

Plus trolls spell words backwards . And these are really names they used before getting banned.
Llort- troll
emong -gnome
Can't think of all the others .

Changing you name is find but better if you change it to something different. As by just changing a lower case to a capital you with people replying using your old spelling .

I am glad you get to see your granddaughters and now your new grandson.

I've never heard of Welbeck College so it's nothing to do with that.