Boris calls his baby wilfred

Thankyou calendargirl did indeed mean inured - although now feel immured by GN antipathy towards infrequent posters ?

It's a fine name. Wilfred Owen etc. All our DGC have old fashioned names as have most of my Gt nieces and nephews. It is popular to name your DC after the gt grandparents it seems.

I wonder if names such as Brenda, Cynthia, June, Derek, Brian or Nigel will ever be fashionable again. think I had better stop before I cause offence

Grammaretto My children are called after GGP's .I would have liked to have called my son after my lovely dad but didn't want to offend my FIL .The solution was calling him after both his maternal GGF's that way no one was offended .

Will law Nick Johnston, his middle names.

paddyanne That was a good solution then but are people really offended? I have the same name as my DD's MiL so that was easy for them.
I wanted to name my DS after my DF, long deceased, but my DM wouldn't hear of it. She said she never liked his name.

No antipathy to infrequent posters Evoha16 , but an exception is made to those posting unpleasant and completely inaccurate comments.

Do you have irrefutable evidence that Boris has lied about being seriously ill?

If not it was an extremely stupid comment.

Ekircubbin is that how you say your names?

I don't. I may shorten my first name occasionally but not usually, but not the others. I fact, if I use my full name I don't shorten any of them.

Perhaps other people do that.

I lengthened yours- sorry!!

JenniferEccles, I agree, it is so sad when people put down the hard work of medical staff working long and stressful hours to save patients in ICU, whoever that patient may be.

A shameful post Evoha, whatever your politics.

Wilfred? - poor little thing - reminds me of Wilfred Pickles!

Reminds me of my beloved uncle and brought a smile to my fade.

Face.

“Ms McGee, who looked after the Prime Minister for two nights, said Mr Johnson did not receive preferential treatment and "absolutely needed" to be in intensive care.”. Dedicated, caring and honest nurse, telling it how it was.

I quite like Wilfred. ?

The spiteful troll and his or her evil remarks should be removed from this thread.

I quite like Wilfred too. He’ll probably be Wilf. I think it fits in well with names of today. I really like Lawrie , think it’s a lovely name ?.
Wish the family well.

The baby looks like a fully formed Boris. I don't like the name, it's been fashionable again for a while, I perceive it to be Anglo Saxon, to me most of those names are ugly, Wilfred, Ethel, Edith horrible! they don't roll off the tongue in comparison to say a name derived from say Latin imo. Thank God for William the Conqueror that's all I've got to say on the subject of Anglo Saxon

Lawrie is just a nickname - what's wrong with Laurence? Wilfrid Bramble?

Another down-vote for the name. My late father had 2 unusual names, he used neither as he hated them so much. If he had been given a more pleasant name I would have wanted to name my son after him but there was no way I was going to saddle a baby with either! Neither does he have 'chavy' names!

Wilfred Owen?

Lovely baby
Looks just like Boris.....he can’t deny this one!

I like the name. It was obviously well thought out to honour people that meant something to both of them . Carrie and Boris have been through a lot and it's nice to hear "her heart is full"
Ehova, the medical team that cared for him are liars too then are they? Good you are behind the cloak of annonominity to say such unkind things.

Great Pick of Wilfred Owen, Maggiemaybe.
Excellent name for Mr J and Ms F's new baby boy.
I love the trend to give children proper names. I also like the inclusion of the names of important people in their history, like grandparents and in Wilfred's case, the doctors who saved his father's life.

Funny how some names have their time in fashion, die out, and eventually come back.
Pamela is one from my mother’s era that comes to mind, ditto Marjorie. Linda is one from my era - there were so many Lindas in my year at school, ditto Christine. Both nice but you never hear of a new baby called either, or at least I haven’t.

My mother hated her own name - one that was fashionable at the time and later sounded very dated - and gave us all the sort of names she thought were classic and would never date.

Two classics (to me anyway) that I’d bet on making a comeback fairly soon are John and Mary. IIRC they were in the top four or so most popular in the U.K. for hundreds of years.

I don't suppose he will be the only Wilfred in his class at school.

My GD has the middle names of both her GM’s which are Ann and Clarissa.
My own M was also Clarissa and we have traced the name back to 1787 which was one of my Grands, this was as far as we could get.
Not fond of Wilfred.