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'What do you picture'? Game

439 replies

BiscuitLover09876 · 17/11/2021 20:23

Poster says a name, next post describes what they picture when they hear this name.

Looks, personality, age etc. Please don't be offended. I love it when my name comes up hilarious. 🤣

Grace

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MissCrowley · 21/11/2021 18:19

Harriets is on a gap year in Australia, drinking and shagging her way around the continent living her best life and posting pics up on Instagram for the girls back home.
Harriet is also 30 and having a quarter mid life crisis.

Pixie

MissCrowley · 21/11/2021 18:20

Sorry for the CP!

Lydia is a stuffy old spinster who enjoys reading dusty tomes in her run down cottage. She has no children and no husband and is perfectly happy thank you very much!

Pixie

SunShinesBrightly · 21/11/2021 18:27

Pixie isn’t Pixie’s real name. She’s actually called Paula and is 40, a social worker, long term partner but no children. Her DP ‘Bez’ is in a band and Pixie sometimes sings backing vocals at gigs.
They have 4 dogs that take up all of their time and are spoilt rotten.

Pam

Onlinedilema · 21/11/2021 18:48

Pam has just turned 50 and celebrated by going away with her husband Paul. Paul is Pam's second husband. She met him whilst she was still married to Jeff, when he came to do some building work on her house. Pam is spoilt rotten by Paul. Her 2 kids from her first marriage are adults and live away. Pam works for an estate agents but is now part time. This allows her to spend lots of time at the gym and having her hair and nails done. She is very good at her job and makes all the staff cupped every day at 10.30. Pam is blonde and slim. She wears expensive leather boots and has a horse. Her house is always clean and tidy with a well kept garden. Recently Paul bought a hot tub which is instilled in their private back garden.

Onlinedilema · 21/11/2021 18:48

New name Alison.

theshadeofgreen · 21/11/2021 19:02

Alison likes to walk in the county with her dogs. She drinks too much, but only the expensive stuff, and eats the naive Christmas style shortbread all year round.
Her house is immaculate, always.

Emma

NinetyNineRedBalloonsGoBy · 21/11/2021 19:19

Emma is 38 with very groomed hair and nails and a permanent air of slight disappointment that her life isn't as brilliantly successful as she was promised it would be. She's always worked very hard to compensate for not being particularly intelligent. She lives with her two cats in a very comfortable and tidy flat in Bexleyheath, and although the interior design does include a fair few "Live Love Laugh" signs she doesn't care as it's her sanctuary.

NinetyNineRedBalloonsGoBy · 21/11/2021 19:21

New name: Sam (male)

Philandbill · 21/11/2021 19:56

Sam is of medium height and has a round but attractive face. He has warm brown eyes and looks slightly anxious at the moment. Sam works in IT in software development and is very good at his job and is decently paid. He is anxious because his wife Libby - who he met at university- gave birth to triplets four months ago and he feels as if he is living in a hurricane. He's trying to work out if they can afford some help at home with the babies and how soon he can go for a vasectomy because three children is one more than he ever hoped for.

Philandbill · 21/11/2021 19:56

New name - Raffaella

SunShinesBrightly · 21/11/2021 19:57

Sam lives with his boyfriend Mike. They have both just turned 40 and have been together for 18 years. They are not into the gay scene at all and met as students when they both did the same English degree at university.
They have loads of friends and love the countryside. They have 2 dogs and work from home as freelance editors.

SunShinesBrightly · 21/11/2021 19:58

Raffaella Is next!

BlueFlavour · 21/11/2021 21:03

Rafaella was a fairly successful author in the early nineties. Semi autobiographical, and hints of Joanna Trollope. She lives in a old farmhouse in Suffolk, and was delighted to discover witch marks on the front door jambs.
She’s married to Piers, who is a wine dealer. Their three children have left home now, and Rafaella feels slightly guilty that she doesn’t miss any of them.
She sometimes goes up to London for the weekend to stay with her sister, which she enjoys, but is always relieved to get home to Piers and the woodburner, and the latest bestseller.

BlueFlavour · 21/11/2021 21:04

Miranda

JustRabbitStuff · 21/11/2021 21:25

Miranda is a very sweet but unorganized 30 something. She's always 20 minutes late to everything and can't keep a secret. She has a very big heart and loves animals. Everyone calls her Mandy.

Tallulah

Quinque · 21/11/2021 23:27

Tallulah is 15 nearly 16, and calls herself Taz. She doesn't answer to the name Tallulah, her stupid mum is the only person who still calls her Tallulah which is just so stupid of her and it's her mum's fault for lumbering her with the stupid name in the first place. Tallulah isn't speaking to her mum at the moment, she can't remember why. Her mum has no idea why but she's secretly enjoying the silence.

Dave

RunRunGingerbreadMan · 22/11/2021 00:04

Dave is quite tall and quite burly. He is balding slightly but still has a small amount of salt and pepper stubble. He works hard as a builder and is generally happy, though tired. He has 2 teenage daughters who he adores but who confuse him thoroughly. As a youngster he had quite a few young ladies, sometimes at the same time, but he has been happily married for the last 20 years. He is a friendly, gentle soul who watches the world go by with a touch of bewilderment. He secretly enjoys nothing better than reading romantic poetry by the greats, but he would never admit this to anyone.

RunRunGingerbreadMan · 22/11/2021 00:10

Oh sorry, next name Miguel.

groovergirl · 22/11/2021 00:48

@BlueFlavour, what are "witch marks"? Please inform a clueless Australian who is most intrigued!

Miguel is a 60-something intellectual who lives in a beautiful but crumbling Art Deco house in Santiago, Cuba. He's not quite old enough to remember La Revolucion but has lived with its benefits and limitations all his life. As a young man he trained as an architect but because of the embargo there was no work in this field, so he made do as a builder and by selling his quite impressive paintings to tourists. He writes novels, which can't be published because of the paper shortage. He sometimes wishes he'd taken a raft to Miami, but would his life really have been any better there? He'd probably have ended up sharing a one-bed flat with 10 other exiles and working as a dishpig. In Cuba he has his friends, music and good organic food.

The next name is ....

Paloma.

douliket · 22/11/2021 02:50

Paloma..
Unfortunately,paloma finds it hard to connect with people. She can be socially awkward as if she is in her own world a lot of the time, distracted even. Paloma parents are hippies and spoke herb and burn incense all day. Paloma wishes she had the courage to leave her current office job and follow her dreams of becoming a famous photographer.

Luke

Dancingsmile · 22/11/2021 04:44

Luke is 26 and has just applied for the next series of love island one drunken night after his mates wound him up saying he'd be perfect for it. Luke secretly hopes he hears from the show and has started working on his pecs and 6 pack in his bedroom just in case but is now in agony as he's over done it. He's also in trouble as he's put more self tan on the towels than him and his mum has made him order her some more from Marks which he's no allowed to use when they arrive.

Dancingsmile · 22/11/2021 04:45

Edwin

DedalusBloom · 22/11/2021 05:15

Edwin is 46 and completely nondescript. You'd struggle to describe him even if you'd been talking to him for over an hour. His personality is completely tepid. Maybe he has greying hair, cut slightly too short? It's difficult to say. His eyes might be grey, or they could be blue, or that sort of sludgy colour that changes shade with the light.

He's about 5 foot 10. Or is he? You thought he had a bit of a tummy, but then Edwin turned side on and almost disappeared. Best not to think about it any longer.

Edwin is a Spy.

danascully96 · 22/11/2021 05:45

Edwin is a sniveling, drippy Classics professor with a small, waxen, boyish face and a snub nose. Despite his dull appearance, Edwin is heedlessly arrogant and self-important and has long harbored an obvious, yet unaddressed bitter hatred of women stemming from multiple rejections in his schoolboy days. Edwin often wears patterned cardigans with strappy sandals and lords himself over others because of his slightly superior intellect. Oversized ego is demonstrably present in Edwin's huffy, stilted manner of speech.

Charlotte?

HeronLanyon · 22/11/2021 05:47

To keep this going I’ll say I have similar thoughts about Adrian.

JENNY.

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