On your marks, get set, go...it's the countdown to Christmas 2020. Thread 1!

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Afternoon.

Here we go again! It feels slightly bonkers setting off again before today is over, but it's tradition, so who am I to argue?!

Thanks for the flowers everyone. I have high hopes for 2020.

But in the meantime, we're keeping busy and getting healthy. That was a big part of us getting the allotment!

It's a full sized plot, PJ. 50ftx50ft (or yards, I can't remember). Bit big for us, really, I don't know what we're going to do with 1/4 of it. Raspberry canes, maybe - something low maintenance. Once we properly start growing I'll hopefully have a better idea of what we can use it for. One of the plots a bit further down has a bit that's meshed over, like for brassicas, but it must be 20ft x 10ft, and tall enough to walk in. That may be a future diy project...

I love the name Alice. It was on my list of girls' names, but then DMIL had a cat called Alice...

I couldn't use my Nana's name - even she hated it. She was named after a maiden aunt. It began with 'H'. Any guesses? (It'll kill some time on a Sunday evening )

Nope.

Gloria?

Henrietta ?

Gertrude > Gertie

I;m sorry l had to muscle in on the guessing game Fanny, Firefly
Mine was called DORIS but everyone called her Doll

Oh, well done Flouncy!! Thought the game would last longer than that! Might be a good name for a cat, I suppose

Think she'd have liked Henrietta better, MrsM.

Gertrude was going to be my next guess. Okay, I'll go for Geraldine like the Vicar of Dibley

Ahh it's a smashing name Fanny one of my faves

Fanny my Mum is known as the dragon because Dad's name was George

Cross post

I like that, MrsM

My Nana's sister was called Peggy, so you'd obviously think her given name was Margaret. It was only when my mum tried looking her up for the family tree (she died quite tragically, at 15) and couldn't find her that we found out she was actually called something completely unrelated!

Just watched Dancing on ice, recorded it earlier, can't bear Pipsqueak but liked the show. Millionaire is on now

Yikes - I should clarify I like Doris known as Doll, not that your mum's called the Dragon...

My DD1 has bought my Mum for her 88th birthday an Ancestry kit
She's doing the test on Saturday l don't know who is the most excited tbh

Firefly , my Mum is a dragon , the kids used to call her that in Tesco where she worked as well

I think a lot of ppl called their dc after relatives years ago hence the same names cropping up
My Dad's family were littered with George, William, Reginald , Walter & Charles for the men. Jack, William , Ivor, Thomas on Mum's side. The women were a varied lot, Susanna, Bessie , Polly , Alice, Annie.
Just watching an Ad for White House farm it looks good .

I think they went a lot more for family names, and had a lot more kids!!

I just wonder what names our grandkids/great grandkids will have. I don't think they'll be named after me - mine is very 1980s!! Could come back into Vogue I suppose. Like 'Gary'

Has Gary made a comeback Firefly ?