Right, who needs a baby name? I'm armed with a baby name book from the 70's and I'm not afraid to use it

Oooh! I wonder who it is.

I am trying to win Mr Grumpy round to 'Hester'. He looked askance but I will win this battle.

Of course, this is where I have a boy and have no idea. Inigo? Heston?

Hester is fabulous! (Sadly, not my RL name, but you can tell I like it.)

There is a well known MNetter called Hester in RL, but I'm not letting on who...

I like Sukey very much and Hester (I think Hester is now top of my list)

34+ weeks, don't know if boy or girl but suspecting girl.

I'm, a child of the 70's but was named after my grandmother. I knew mostly Claire/Clare/Clair variations.

I know 2 Hazels, 1 is 40 and 1 is 70!

Hester,

Am now only a visitor to the hallowed fields of Kensington, did live there once though and my brother still does.

I once lost DS in Holland Park and he was in VERY expensive hand-me-down clothes care of a nanny fried of mine. I was cursing myself thinking "oh no, they'll have kidnapped him because he looks well-off and they think they'll get a big ransom!".

Have NO desire to spend five hours a day exericising ever - but especially not when newborn cuddles are on offer! (have never worn a bikini though, so maybe I don't know what I'm missing)

Hazel is not lovely .. trust me, shes my MIL

Hazel is not lovely, "all the flowers in the world and they named her after a nut" is my all time favorite quote.

You got it! And lots of women with VERY expensive highlights, botox, designer sunglasses, creamy caramel clothes...

Honestly, I don't know how they let me past passport control. One of the more humiliating experiences of my life was when I joined a baby bootcamp postnatal thing in Holland Park. I had been enticed in by a flyer in the GP surgery that featured lots of overweight women with stained sweatshirts and Croydon facelifts. My kind of keepfit, my kind of women, I thought, and pootled along. Imagine my horror when I discovered all the other postnatals looked like Barbie goddesses, even just a few weeks after birth. One of them told me she had given herself a month to look good in her bikini, so was working out for five hours every day. "I've told the nanny: don't expect to see me", she told me. So like my own life!

It is quite odd to live in such a rich neighbourhood, specially when you're not yourself rich. Lovely in many ways, but you're really aware of all the things you don't get: normality, plump women, chippies, launderettes...

I think maybe dark cords? And a gilet? But wasn't paying that much attention! DD was playing near his and the names leapt out at me.

No what you mean about the K&C look though. Usually with dark rimmed glasses too, right?

TP, never met the dad so wouldn't know. Was he wearing red or yellow cords with a barbour jacket? if so, that narrows it down to about 10,000 men, all living within the borders of Kensington and Chelsea (Have you noticed that you never get this look outside of Kensington and Chelsea? You non-Royal Borough girls have NO idea what you're missing!)

Lol skyblu, correct on both counts

MadreInglese - so you're either called Louise or Jane then.....

I love Cosmo

Hester, Inigo and Sukey seemed sweet. I think they may have been with a dad or an uncle though that day?

God, I hope not! I don't think I particularly look my age anyway.
I think Margot, its just the lack of effort, the fact they can't even be arsed to read my name properly.

I suspect Cosmo is a lot more popular these days than the 70's

My parents have the same book, same edition. Even scarier are the names my mum has marked in pencil with a little line like so - that she was considering.
I am grateful that dBro and i were not Jeremy and Fenella (no offensive pls to Jeremys or Fenellas or mothers of, just not right for us imho)
My mum warned me off using Imogen as the book has two spellings, Imogen and Imogene???

Suwoo, Does it piss you off becuase you think it means they see you as an older woman (than you really are)

Toffeepopple - I have to tell you that I know that very same Inigo and Sukey (though not well!). Their mum is really nice.

(It is, of course, possible that there is more than one Inigo-Sukey pair of siblings locally - but I doubt it, even in Kensington )

We need boys names

at the Susan/Suzanne stereotypes. It pisses me right off when people call me Susan. I secretly wanted to be called Susannah and I would have been had my maiden not kind of rhymed with it.

Sausage - you're young for a Susan then.

I'd expect a Susan to be about 44-56 and a Suzanne to be about 31-43.

I'm a Susan of the early seventies too. Never met any Susans younger than me.

I'm a Susan of the Seventies. But then I am quite old-fashioned.

Show of Hands, I heard an Inigo being called in by his dad at Kensington Gardens at the weekend. His sister was Sukey.

(I know because dad was callng "Inigooooooooooo, don't hit your sister Suuuukeeeey!!" I'm not that much of a spy!)