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Harlow, Winona alternatives pleeeease

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Zebraa · 21/12/2008 20:51

DP is hoping and praying I'm just being emotionally unreasonable but I really love names like Harlow and Winona but want something not quite so well known for my little girl... any suggestions?

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paolosgirl · 21/12/2008 22:44

Must dash - I think the suit that I made for my husband from nettles and am currently dyeing has just reached the perfect shade of green

Night night!

BabyBaby123 · 21/12/2008 22:34

Harlow is awful - marginally better than Harley but of the same type...

Winona I just don't like at all, sorry.

LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 22:24

oh wow, that sounds 'positively divine sweetie'. I would love such a box.

Excuse me now, I'm just popping next door. My lovely neighbour Tom is plucking a pheasant for me for Christmas day.

paolosgirl · 21/12/2008 22:21

The hair, the maxi dresses, the drinks from the cocktail cabinet after work, the wallpaper - what's not to love?

My glamorous next door neighbours had a silver carriage that housed a box of after eight mints - to my eight year old self that was the absolute epitome of sophistication

LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 22:18

Her disdain for almost everybody!

Her complete control over poor Gerry!

francagoestohollywood · 21/12/2008 22:14

Indeed Liffey. Ah those long dresses...

francagoestohollywood · 21/12/2008 22:12

lol Paolosgirl. I really like the name margot, never really thought about it before

LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 22:11

Franca! yeah, tom and barbara were a bit boring, and especially now that they are so in tune withthe zeitgeist of 2008!

I love the decadence of Margo and Gerry!

LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 22:10

Yeah! My fab great aunt was Margaret and that was a bit too crusty for me, but Margot seemed to encapsulate exactly what I was looking for. Classic and a bit edgy. Unusual but not weird. I almsot called her dulcie and peo9ple put their head in their hands when I said, well, I have another name I like.

paolosgirl · 21/12/2008 22:09

There is/was something very cosy and comforting about The Good Life - takes me right back to my 70's childhood in a Kent village where everyone was growing their own and making wine out of anything that was vaguely organic. Lovely!

francagoestohollywood · 21/12/2008 22:07

Margot Leadbetter!!! I remember that the first months after I moved to the UK one of the few things that cheered me up was watching The Good Life. I love margot Leadbetter. And Gerry (more than Barbara and Tom)

paolosgirl · 21/12/2008 22:04

Well, I'm lost for words...!

  • are you joking?
LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 21:59

I em, called my dd Margot!!! I love it. People say to me sometimes, after Margot Fontene? And I say gosh no after my heroine, Margo Ledbetter. I was tempted to call myson Gerry.

paolosgirl · 21/12/2008 21:57

Yes - fab comedy characters (esp the one where she was helping Barbara and Tom pick their veg and slipped in the mud!) - but do you want your child to be named after (sorry Lockets! ) Margot Leadbetter?!

LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 21:54

I love Margo and Gerry!

paolosgirl · 21/12/2008 21:51

No no no - Margot Leadbetter. Not good, not good....

dizzyjingles · 21/12/2008 21:37

what about

Auden
Bronte
Pearl
Ismay
Arwyn
Blyth

any of those?

LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 21:35

OP, you have to use Margot. There was a reason that popped into my head in connection with Harlow I thinkk.

wrapstar · 21/12/2008 21:33

Harlean is Jean Harlow's real first name

In a famous bitchy exchange, wit Margot Asquith apparently said, when called MargoT by Jean Harlow, 'no dear, the t is silent...as in 'Harlow''

wrapstar · 21/12/2008 21:30

native american girls' names like Winona

Nancy66 · 21/12/2008 21:26

Billericay? Billy for short....

Lockets · 21/12/2008 21:25

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LiffeySaysNollaigShona · 21/12/2008 21:24

What about Harpenden??!

wrapstar · 21/12/2008 21:23

Amicia
Sabina
Parnell
Isolda
Gelle
(all medieval English names)

tinselroundtherock · 21/12/2008 21:19

Winifred
Wendy
Wendoline
Winnie

Or how about

Harlesden...so much more classy and a bit rad even.