How did you get your Gransnet name? (lighthearted)

It’s the name of my favourite fishing fly. Like me it is small, grey and very reliable!

well, there was a packet on the table in front of me as I struggled to think of a name,

Mine is also really boring. 65 because I was 65 when I joined 11 years ago. I was a gran.
I thought Coolgran sounded ..... Cool.

Franbern and there was me thinking you were in all likelihood German. 🤣

grumppa

A few years ago the family decided (erroneously, I hasten to add!) that I was the Christmas Grump grandpa.

One of the DGC bought DH one of these 😁

They do all love him, btw!

As a Maggie I grew up having that totally inappropriate song about sailors and prostitutes sung to me, so I wanted Maggiemay. It was already taken, so I’d to add a touch of mystery…

A few years ago the family decided (erroneously, I hasten to add!) that I was the Christmas Grump grandpa.

I really love Snickers!

My Mums name was Frances and my Dads name Bernard
When I was younger I always hoped to be a professional novelist, and Franbern would have been the name I meant to write under. Never, actually had anything published.

I'm a pigeon, obviously.

Magenta8, I'm not even sure how Aely is pronounced. I go for A-lee but some think it might be I-lee.

If I had chosen my old nickname as some have on here, I thought it might give some people the wrong idea about me, although that is debateable as my nickname was Trouble.

The name of my horse

Now with 2 grandchildren, oldest 7 and another due soon, I am no longer ‘newatthis’ however I learn something everyday!

Mine is beautiful grandma. Grandma describes me. Bella does not. But it’s Italian, as was my lovely husband.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

And there was me thinking you’d just eaten a packet hulahoop!

Yes, me rpto.

Mine is an Australian name which is the name of a child whom DD taught; I just liked it.

And there was me thinking you’d just eaten a packet hulahoop!

I had been showing gc how to do it.

I used this name as DD1 used this as a nickname for me when she had DGD1. Not really sure why!

I’m a simple soul. There’s no imagination in mine, we live on a corner.

So boring it’s hardly worth explaining. I’m a grandma and I was in my 70s when I chose the name. I’m in my 80s now.

We had just moved into our present home and the garden had not been touched for years It was wild

I was 56 and from Cumbria when I joined, it's that boring.

My original name was a mixture of my two forenames. I can't remember now why I decided to change it, but looking in the mirror, the one I have since gone by was appropriate then and is even more appropriate now.

LovesBach. I always thought you were Welsh as Bach in that language means little. It never occurred to me it was the composer Bach.

I saw the name in a magazine article on online dating and liked it as it suggested champagne and parties and fun. Earlier this year when I mentioned on a thread that I don't drink, a couple of posters suggested I was lying because of my GN name. In actual fact, the name "Sparklefizz" is the nearest I get to alcohol.