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[Twilight]

I'm not going to announce my new granddaughter's name, it's totally ridiculous but maybe by the time I get to meet her I may have got used to it.

 

[Brissles]

Twi, nothing could be as ridiculous as Honey B

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Doesn’t matter how much thought goes into a name once you get to school you get shafted with a nickname.

 

[Twilight]

Twi, nothing could be as ridiculous as Honey B

Almost...

 

[csi]

Pronunciation is like Hayley but with a silent H.

Thank you x

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Almost...

Peanut A or Marmite C?

 

[candycane]

Britney or Angel? Both little girls on the estate I used to live on. At the school where I work there's an India, a Noah, Parker, Lady (isn't that a dog's name?), Oscar (budgie?). I could go on but it's not my business what parents call their children. One of my nephews has a shocking name!

CC

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Princess, Precious, Buddy, Tinkerbell.

Time will not be kind.

I do like unusual names though!

 

[Brissles]

Its been the fashion for years now to use surnames (as we knew them) as first names, which I still think is odd. Like the Parker mentioned above, we have Taylor, Lewis, McKenzie, Mason, Harper, etc I'm waiting to hear if there's a Smith & Jones, Cagney & Lacey, or even Starsky & Hutch

 

[maymorganlondon]

Princess, Precious, Buddy, Tinkerbell.

Time will not be kind.

I do like unusual names though!

I immediately think of Paula Yates and Jamie Oliver...and Katie Price.

 

[maymorganlondon]

I'm not going to announce my new granddaughter's name, it's totally ridiculous but maybe by the time I get to meet her I may have got used to it.

Congratulations!!!

 

[Twilight]

Congratulations!!!

Thank you She was born on 27th June, however, my daughter & SiL are maintaining the 2 metre distancing rule & won't allow anybody into their home - their two older children didn't leave house & garden for nearly 5 months & even a walk outside was banned because they know so many other families they were worried that meeting them would allow the children to get too close to each other. I could understand their concerns if any of them were in vulnerable groups but they're all in the rudest health so I have to bite my tongue! My husband has been to see them a few times, they live 90 miles away but he has customers in the area so ties the visits in with seeing them. I said that I couldn't go if I wasn't allowed any contact with the children, I look after our younger daughter's little girl & there aren't any issues, but I was told "Our children, our rules" so I'm waiting to do things properly & that will be when the Rule of Snitch has been lifted so she'll probably be at school. I did the majority of my Christmas shopping last weekend & buying a gift for a granddaughter I haven't seen was odd to say the least.

 

[Twilight]

Britney or Angel? Both little girls on the estate I used to live on. At the school where I work there's an India, a Noah, Parker, Lady (isn't that a dog's name?), Oscar (budgie?). I could go on but it's not my business what parents call their children. One of my nephews has a shocking name!

CC

I love India & really wanted it for our older girl, my Mr T didn't, & won. To be brutally honest she's changed so much since meeting her husband that beautiful name would be wasted on her.

 

[Silver Fox]

It is a bitter pill to swallow Twilight when someone you love and looked after has treated you in an unbelievable way.It has happened to me this year and although you reach some acceptance, because there is nothing else to do, it is always there.Good luck.

 

[candycane]

although you reach some acceptance, because there is nothing else to do, it is always there.Good luck.

I've always been last on the list in our family but as you say Silver, what else is there to do but suck it up. Once you DO accept it then at least you know you've tried

CC

 

[Deleted member 21102]

And get on with living. But a bitter pill to swallow, and their loss - which they will eventually realise. My sympathy.

 

[Brissles]

Thank you She was born on 27th June, however, my daughter & SiL are maintaining the 2 metre distancing rule & won't allow anybody into their home - their two older children didn't leave house & garden for nearly 5 months & even a walk outside was banned because they know so many other families they were worried that meeting them would allow the children to get too close to each other. I could understand their concerns if any of them were in vulnerable groups but they're all in the rudest health so I have to bite my tongue! My husband has been to see them a few times, they live 90 miles away but he has customers in the area so ties the visits in with seeing them. I said that I couldn't go if I wasn't allowed any contact with the children, I look after our younger daughter's little girl & there aren't any issues, but I was told "Our children, our rules" so I'm waiting to do things properly & that will be when the Rule of Snitch has been lifted so she'll probably be at school. I did the majority of my Christmas shopping last weekend & buying a gift for a granddaughter I haven't seen was odd to say the least.

Twi, I don't think you are alone in this by any means. I had a great nephew born in April, still haven't seen him, and the family live 15 minutes away ! I said in jest when he was born that he would probably be at school before the family saw him, and its starting to look that way !! My brother - his grandad has only seen him twice, and one was through the window ! Rather than bringing families closer together I think that Covid has created chasms between those other than the closest relatives. When you get over the initial feeling of not seeing them, it becomes less important as time wears on.

 

[SusieSue]

I'm surprised there hasn't been a Corona and Covid duo!

 

[Grizelda]

I remember her on the bid channels and I always thought she was a really pretty lady...but since she's had her child she has lost so much weight (she was never a big girl) I think she looks really quite un well. I'm hoping everything's ok as to me she looks painfully thin and gaunt looking..having seen her before I can see a marked difference.

She reminds me of a shy woodland animal (but I realize that she is not shy ... it's just her look).

 

[maymorganlondon]

She reminds me of a shy woodland animal (but I realize that she is not shy ... it's just her look).

Sharks don't live in the woodland...and all the ex-biddies remind me very much of sharks, I'm afraid.