BEETROOT!

There is a famous (ish) musician who has children called Geronimo and Galileo

If you want beetroot that don't taste like beetroot feetlebaum, then you need to grow the Italian pink stripy ones called 'chioggia'. They are delicious and far more subtle. Sadly the mice think so, too.

Dogs, not twin babies, named Cash and Carry!

I knew two old men in the 1950s called Friend and Young Nipper and those were their registered names/

Good publicity! I wouldn't have watched the programme on catch up had it not been for this thread.

Obsessive cleaning is not my thing

"Talking of beetroot, I was served a 'golden' beetroot fritter yesterday. I didn't know they existed, but golden it was and tasted just like beetroot."

How very disappointing!

Oh my gosh! others were not listening properly either

It's not a name. It's a family nickname. You need to read the thread. Well, at least at the beginning.

I love beetroot but not for a name

@teetime - not Chlamydia, but John Betjemens's daughte was called Candida...

Or as I heard it pronounced 'Lie-dell'! Think that's the posh version.

Russell & Bromley

Fortnum & Mason

Tate & Lyle

Aldi and Lidl might be nice for twins...

Wait Rose would be good, but I'm not so sure about ' asda!


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AAfter hearing Chardonnay, Merlot and Chianti yelled at three children running amok in Asda, nothing surprises me.
I'm reliably informed there's a child up the road called Hesperus Mermaid whose baby brother is called Foster Carling........ Poor little things

Not sure about Hebe. GAI would be tempted to call her Hebe Jeebie

of. not is.

My son knew identical twin girls at his school who were called Clairette and Clairetta

They are lovely names.

I like the idea is using both Christian names. Might try it on the grandsons.

At my son's school there was a family with daughters Saffron and Hebe. They were both lovely girls and so the names have very positive connotations.

Tradition in fishing villages around here is to have double barrelled first names-often run together-and the full name is always used. So you get StephanieLouise or MichaelJohn. The other problem is there are the same 3 or 4 surnames common to the area. Can get very confusing.

I was just going offline to tidy papers, maybe find the herb leaflet, more types of Basil than expected there. Friend's lovely granddaughter is Apache, a surprise initially but original
Of course - not so obscure a herb as expected, I like it! As well as Saffron or, as I've encountered, Saphron, I've met a Cinnamon. An elderly neighbour was Lascella, Lassie for short, from the surname Lascelles but I've forgotten why.

OK merlotgran, I get the short form, like it. Still musing over longer original - have a leaflet from Jekka's herbfarm somewhere, will have to look. I remember in The Archers that Robert Snell's daughter Coriander became Caz in her teens! Emmeleigh with an umlaut over the second e, pronounced Emily, and Sea4th, Disney ...
On a different website someone mentioned Australian twins named Benson and Hedges, allegedly.

Oops, I'm sure your post wasn't there when I typed mine, annsixty!

I can't get it either, even with your clue, Merlot!

If it's so rude that it needs asterisks, how can a chlld be called it?