Why did you choose your username?

Because I had become known (unjustly, I stoutly maintain) as The Christmas Grump. It is only my Gransnet name; DGCs call me Grandpa.

Cos I rides a Motorcycle (when I get chance)

Because I always bag the crust off the new loaf.

And quite often I wear baggy trousers. My husband thinks I was born in baggy trousers.

soutra, no not that one, it was something like
"twoo said the owl twoo said his wife,that crow down below leads a lonely life
a bachelor he is a bachelor he'll die, why doesn't he get married I can't think why?"
For some reason we eight year olds thought this hysterically funny and repeated it ad nauseum.
I am now 73 so you know how long ago that was!!!!!
I know where you are!!!

whitewave. I like snippets of information as you have just given us. I will probably think of you as Guinavere now though

Wanted something Scottish so chose Thistle, asked DH what he thought and he said that'll do. So I added the doo, Thistledoo was born!!��

It's a bit convoluted,but I am Cornish and the anglicized version of my Cornish name is Guinavere and means whitewave in Cornish.

The origin of mine is very dull, I had a user name constructed for me by another site, cannot even remember which. It asked for favourite colour and favourite flower. Am partial to purple but indifferent to daffodils, so it must have been spring at the time. I didn't realise when I joined GN how significant my user name was going to be! Vampirequeen I just love your story. And I had always imagined you as a hippie, long haired Eleanor Bron type.

I've been around since GN was born. I'd just got home from a yoga class so my name seemed logical then. A little confusing now as there's also a yogagirl too

In memory of my beautiful late daughter.

Some of you have really thought this through! I joined back in 2011, took ages to think of something and ended up with this because I keep finding myself saying it to people younger an me (which is most of the population nowadays). Just wish I had more imagination.

Sorry, Soutra, I too have had THAT BOOK brought to mind by your name As for anniezzzo9, I think of you as buzzing around (like a bee) and getting a lot done.

Guess . I should upgrade it now as I have an additional grandchild but it still applies, of course.

Well I do like fur although I don't own any but I stroke it a lot when I find it on vintage stalls lol.

Fascinating how names conjure up images:
Lilygran to me is elegant and exotic
Vampirequeen I'm afraid I imagine you looking like a kinder version of Cruella de Ville
Elegran and Glammanana - two very glamorous and ageless beauties
Soutra definitely as Vampirequeen says
Dustyangel somehow conjures up the Deep South.....
Would love to see photos just to find out how wrong I am!

anno

Oh glammanana you could not be further from the truth lol.

Lilygran - almost an anagram of angrily. I hope not!

I can't totally remember but either all the usernames I thought of were taken so in exasperation I added zzz09 or I think the system might have offered me that username (is that likely?).

I'd quite like to change it and drop the zzz09 so if anyone ever replies to or refers to me, please feel free to call me annie!

I once revised my whole opinion of a member and her posts, having pictured her a certain way, when I saw her photo!

Well some people's minds........!

Whenever I see soutra's name I always think Karma Sutra

Sort of anagram. There used to be a website which would make anagrams out of any word you gave it. Hours of innocent fun!

Vampirequeen I visualise you as a Kate Bush lookalike tall and black flowing hair,Soutra calm and comforting and full of wisdom,so many images to think about I really must make the effort this year to do a meet up and put faces to names at long last.

Some of us have profile pictures and if I sneak a peak they are never as I imagined

I do long walks along the River Thames!