Choosing your Username

SHHH! silverfish it may be Pittcity's family
I love all roses, and as a child skipped a lot, to the skipping rhyme 'roses are red, violets are blue' etc.

Im in a windy up mood tonight lol. No hard feelings Pittcity it probably isn't your family.

Do you make a habit of "winding up" on a Sunday night?

I'm just wondering why you'd choose something you hate to be your username, Silverfish... I find that odd!

not every sunday, Soutra, I sometimes have a day off.

Ana, have a horror an absolute phobia of the little so and so's so I guess it was a natural thing to use, I changed my name from Cactus as I got bored with it.
I love reading the posts here, there are many I don't reply to but just sometimes I like to be a bit 'windy up'. lol, no hard feelings
Going to bed now Goodnight all.xx

My 'song' part was because I was struggling to learn a song for our choir concert and the 'ruby' was for the ring I had from DH for our 40th wedding anniversary in 2012. It didn't cost a lot, in fact it was second hand from eBay but I love it and wear it every day.

I'm MiceElf and that's all there is to it.

I spend most of my life in total confusion, hence the name

silveefish I am pleased to say that my DHs family are all Norfolk and southwards... He always introduces himself as Brad's cousin

My name, like When's, relates to the special birthday that I'm sure made so many of us sing the song.

Dragonfly - lovely way to remember your daughter

I really like silverfish, they appear magically in the bathroom at night, usually about 2 of them and glide about and are really pretty.

However silverfish as ana says, it's a bit odd you choosing it as you have a phobia about them? A bit like someone with a spider phobia calling themselves tarantula

silverfish - does it help you think about them differently? i.e. is it therapeutic?

Mine reflects my fondness for chickens.

If I had stuck with my original username - going back to mumsnet time - I would have had it 11 years now!

That has actually shocked me!

Not therapeutic I still hate the little b......s.

The Jura is the region where I was born and bred, on the Swiss side, and where we have now returned after I spent my whole adult life married to a Brit- and of course I am a Gran- so it made sense.

(Our region is straddled over the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, and the Doubs Region of France).

My eldest DGS couldn't say grandma he had trouble getting his way around the "r" but he started using glam-ma and the rest is history been called that for 20+ yrs now.

Mine's obvious - isn't it?

Dragonfly in a similar way I always think of a late relative when I see a ladybird.

activist
a person (in my case a granny) who believes strongly in political or social change and takes part in activities such as public protests to try to make this happen.

This isn't my name. But I can play the old Joanna.

Silverfish there are umpteen ways to get rid of silverfish on Wikihow. You could have hours of fun. My bête noire is the mini armadillos which trudge across the floor in the loo.

Stansgran , we call them that too.

I don't mind them, they seem reasonably benign, but then I ALWAYS wear slippers when I get out of bed at night in case there are any other creepy crawlies about.

Stansgran, I just told my students that British people use the expression 'my bête noire' and they just didn't believe it will show them your post. The one that really makes them laugh is 'genrE' - they find it hilarious. They love 'ménage à trois' too- although I of course reserve that one for older students