User names, what made you choose yours?

[Bigmallly]

Cadalot - your art works is glorious. It looks like influences from Picasso and Lady Frieda Harris.

Anyhow..................my name...................well if you saw me it would explain itself.

I did contemplate Tubby, Fattie, Flabby and Flobby but.............

Or Comfy.................

[Lumpy]

Or Comfy.................

Have you been peeking through the nets again BM?

[Tripmeup]

Mine just sorta came into my head

[Potstubsdustbins]

Cos its what I grow my veggies in simples a bit like me....................

[Bren In Pots]

Mines my name and when I joined I was only growing in pots
I'd got 6 runner beans, a bucket of carrots and two tomato plants in the window bottom. Since then we've filled in a pond, took out a shrubbery, dug up part of the lawn all the make me some growing space plus room for my GH.

[bearded bloke]

^^^^ nice hair-do Bren

[Verinda]

I wrote a kids story about a couple called Verinda and Jibbert Giblet, he invents incredible magic toffees haha! so far I haven't been brave enough to send to a publisher.

[Nicos]

My OH joined the forum as Nicos and then didn't post!
A couple of days later I decided I'd join cos I liked the look of it !
Unfortunately , back then, the forum wouldn't allow 2 members from the same place so I asked if he was actually going to post and he said he didn't have time ...so I sort of snuck in in his place!

Glad I did!

He chose the name because his shortend scrawly signature in his youth actually looked like it said Nicos

[Nafets]

its my name backwards

[SaraJH]

I wrote a kids story about a couple called Verinda and Jibbert Giblet, he invents incredible magic toffees haha! so far I haven't been brave enough to send to a publisher.

That sounds fab Verinda, you must send it to a publisher!

[Verinda]

Thank you Sara, I know I should at least have a go, I really must look into it.

[Kirk]

Strangly it is who I was, sometimes still am.

At school several of us had "alternative" names (nicknames?) and I was Kirk. To one or two I still am Kirk to this day. Friends wife never undestood why he called me Kirk and equally why I never hiccupped when he did so. One person Steve Hyde, was always called Bruce, and no Bruce was not his middle name, he didn't have one. No idea how Dirge got his either.

My school maths teacher only actually knew me as Kirk, he never knew my actual name.

[boatsman]

In my youth I used to spend a lot of time fishing off a small converted lifeboat. My gardening experience was more or less mowing the lawn and rolling it.

[Baldy]

I kept my moniker from 'another place' so that other wandering souls would find comfort in recognition of the familiar - not sure how that's worked out though...

Not Baldy (yet) though as a youngster had a 'bald lump' (lipoma) that got me the nickname.
++ Balders - rather too fond of Blackadder goes Forth...

Pip pip etcetera

[Bal]

Bal is just the first syllable of my name. Everyone calls me it. Had no idea I could choose a name for myself. Just as well really because I can't think of one even now, unless it's
' blonde on the inside' ( no offence to any true blondes' )