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I'd like to change my name

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BigBertha1 Mon 21-Apr-25 15:22:25

When I first joined Gransnet, almost at the beginning, I had a different name - Teetime - I'm a golfer I thought it was funny ! After several years I had a break and came back as Big Bertha - another golfing reference - its a club but now I have lost weight and feel I would like a less cumbersome name. Any thoughts about this and how can I do this please?

Coconutty Wed 30-Apr-25 07:50:44

Did you get it changed?

Marg75 Tue 22-Apr-25 20:21:09

I don't think I am!

Marg75 Tue 22-Apr-25 20:20:25

I've would have liked to be called Eve, it always conjures up sexy and mysterious, something I don't think, I am!

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Tue 22-Apr-25 16:11:33

Any luck Big Bertha?

kittylester Tue 22-Apr-25 16:04:49

My problem was that there were only 2 of us in the whole of my grammar school.

Allira Tue 22-Apr-25 14:33:05

kittylester I used to pretend my name was Nicola when I was young because I thought my real name was boring. For some reason Nicola appealed to me, sporty but feminine! There were five of us with the same name in my year at school.

kittylester Tue 22-Apr-25 12:50:26

I have been kittylester since about a month after GN started and am quite happy with it.

However, I'd quite like to change the name I was lumbered with 76 years ago.

Marg75 Tue 22-Apr-25 06:57:15

I'm 80!!

Sadgrandma Mon 21-Apr-25 23:50:35

I’d like to change my name too. I became Sadgrandma during lockdown when I was desperately unhappy at not being able to see my little granddaughter who we had been looking after two days a week. Of course I see her regularly now as we pick her up from school a couple of days a week and often have her in the holidays. So I might disappear soon.

Allira Mon 21-Apr-25 22:07:18

BigBertha1

Oh thankyou. I might be something not golf related.

ForgetMeNot!

BigBertha1 Mon 21-Apr-25 21:13:52

Oh thankyou. I might be something not golf related.

Coconutty Mon 21-Apr-25 21:03:15

I thought you meant in real life and I was here ready to offer suggestions. I’d like to be an Amber grin

Allira Mon 21-Apr-25 20:58:33

Brahumbug

Aveline

If a WeePutter suddenly starts posting we'll know who it is!

Is that a golfer with incontinence problems?😁

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Allira Mon 21-Apr-25 20:58:09

BlueBelle

Iam64

Hi BigBertha
I’d follow GriedGreenToms advice and report your post with a request to gnhq for advice.
I’m well beyond 64 but keep my original name. Not least because of my legendary tech skills

I like GriedGreenTomatoes Iam64 is that how a ventriloquist says it

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Thank you Bluebelle, my first real laugh of the day

Allira Mon 21-Apr-25 20:57:01

Birdie?
Fairway?
Mulligan?

I think you should go back to Teetime, a good name.

Brahumbug Mon 21-Apr-25 20:21:12

Aveline

If a WeePutter suddenly starts posting we'll know who it is!

Is that a golfer with incontinence problems?😁

Iam64 Mon 21-Apr-25 18:01:21

BlueBelle / I’m afraid I’m using my phone not iPad. The result is I appear even more garbled than usual. It’s a combination of fat fingers, not reading before posting but worse - bliddy predictive texts

BlueBelle Mon 21-Apr-25 17:51:36

Iam64

Hi BigBertha
I’d follow GriedGreenToms advice and report your post with a request to gnhq for advice.
I’m well beyond 64 but keep my original name. Not least because of my legendary tech skills

I like GriedGreenTomatoes Iam64 is that how a ventriloquist says it

Usedtobeblonde Mon 21-Apr-25 17:47:31

I believe Big Bertha used her own name when she first joined and then realised how unwise that was.

kittylester Mon 21-Apr-25 17:42:30

Please let us know what you become Bertha. And I'm sure I remember another former name.

Ilovedogs22 Mon 21-Apr-25 17:38:46

Iam64

Ah is that how frequent fliers do it

Why do you mean by frequent fliers Iam64 ? (or may be not) 😁
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MiniMoon Mon 21-Apr-25 17:38:45

All you do is click on my gransnet log in and you can change your username there.

Galaxy Mon 21-Apr-25 17:04:57

grinIam64

Iam64 Mon 21-Apr-25 16:50:44

Ah is that how frequent fliers do it

Elowen33 Mon 21-Apr-25 16:23:17

Close your account and come back with a new name.