Why did you choose your username?

I chose my user name as I used it for another forum or password. It was the first clematis I ever bought. I have been on GN since about march/april 2012 when I learnt I was going to be a gran.

Oh! You weren't who I thought you were, Anya. Had you down as someone quite different - it just shows how all these name-changes confuse some of us...

Who used to be nanaej?

I have been around since the beginning and I have always had this name, harridan and gran ....harrigran

I've been around since the beginning too. I was originally NanaAnna, but there was another who was (and I think still is) NannaAnna as you can imagine that got very confusing. As Anna is my middle name, but it was already in use, I simply went for something very close to it.

In answer to your question, I joined on (I think) day one, and have always been Phoenix.

HQ will be able to give the actual day!

This is my 3rd name picked because I wanted something short, and I was a bit fed up with things on Gn at the time.
First name got pinched, Nanachrissy, second name change because I was 'discovered' was Ella46 after my mum.

Because like the brown sticky stuff, you either love it or hate it and also 'I' might - or I might not..... MAR are the first 3 letters of my given name, which I never use unless I absolutely have to. So, now you know, even if it's all gobbledygook . It's an improvement on my first GN name which is what the gc's call me

Chosen because I have twin grand-daughters. When they arrived two babies instead of one was " Twiceasnice" as just one.

I'd spent the day planting up a flower bed with penstemons and then
mis-typed it when I registered!

Thank you jings, it's like having my own bedtime story. Not sure I ever believed in reincarnation until now

Nina is a nickname derived from the name on my passport. No body has ever called me by that name. I have always been known by my middle name even on the school register.

Nina was taken when I joined so I added 'thenana'

Oh, long before the beginning.

Have most posters been around since the very beginning?

I think I was getting desperate by then.

Oh yes! That was 'whatsamashedupjingl' because you used to be able to return with a - quoting GNHQ - a 'mashed up' version of your previous name.

and that was also for Ariadne.

You missed out whatsamathingy or similar...

For Crafting.

I started out on Mumsnet, years back now, as agy. Changed it one Christmastime to JaNgLyBELLS. That got changed to jangly. That got changed to jingle (due to leaving and returning). Then it became jingl for the same reason. Then it was JO2 (God knows why - think it was bags's idea). Then there was JO3, and perhaps 4. (You keeping up?) then I came back again as jinglebells. Then as jinglbells (subtle difference there). Then jinglebellsrocks. Then jinglbellsfrocks.

jings isn't this this is about your fourth or fifth incarnation, and didn't it happen round about one Christmas? it has a Christmassy feel to it, anyway.

I used to be a GPO telephone operator, in the dim and distant past. Sometimes when the supervisor wasn`t about, we`d answer with "rubber knees" instead!

I think mine is obvious - 'time's winged chariot' and all that!

Because it's my name! At least I'm unlikely to forget it.

Oh shucks jings your was the one I really wanted to know the meaning of, it being so unusual. Can't you make something up

I get it Galen (I had to google it too)

Mine is just a hobby really. I wish I had thought of something more exotic, romantic, funny or interesting but didn't realise I would be stuck with it. Too late to change now, I'd forget who I was if I changed it.