Nicknames Online, why did you choose yours?

[Rhiannon]

Rhiannon is a name I've started to like a lot recently, but it came into my head too late to call my daughter it, so it's my fantasy name!

Yes Lizzer, Rhiannon is dark haired, nothing mysterious though. Just a Mum that loves gossip!

I feel really left out now! Mine is just most of my name and what everyone calls me, but I use Ems on other sites, there was one here already. Maybe I should think of something more fun and come back? I found this site just surfing when we first had the computer and I love it cos of the intelligent debates and I can always rely on a bit of great advice and support when I need it!

Bleatings fellow sheep appreciators!

I didn't realise there was so many sheep-aholics out there too.

Midge - I have used Ewelalia on a different site. I started the sheep thing largely because I used to go on holiday near Gairloch (on the West Coast of Scotland for those who don't know it) and there was lots of sheep there who'd just wander round the roads. In Gairloch was a shop called "Ewe and me" with beautiful things in it. Then my twin sister started buying me little things and I also collected postcards and had masses of sheep ones on my office wall.

Pamina - yes I did go to The Sheep Shop and got a few things there. I live 500 miles away from London but I was working there at the time, even so it was quite a long walk. How lovely adopting a sheep - what is his/her name?

Lizzer - that doesn't sound like me at all but your description is very flattering. I am medium height but very small build and blond, aged 35 and rather shy in 'real' life.

... as for you I imagine you to have dark curly long hair. Am I close?

Chairmum - how did you choose your name?

As for the number of sheep things - I've got masses of them - clothes, jewelry, pictures, ornaments, soft toys, mugs, a biscuit barrel, lampshade, a lot of Shaun the sheep things, including slippers, handbag, large fluffy doorstop, hot-water bottle and car nodding Shaun. The more bizairre things are a toilet roll holder and an inflatable sheep, and unfortunately it even extended to my poor innocent son with babygrows, a hat, booties etc . And best of all we have the real thing right next to our new house - I have a view of a whole field of them from the living room window.

Oh and my husband collects hedgehogs!

Eulalia, LOL at the sheep collection! Its a bit like that in our house. :-) And there are sheep across the river from us, too, so i can gaze on the real thing. Best of all is a lifesize wooden lamb DH gave me for my 40th. Really cute.

DH christened me 'Chairmum' when i became Chair of my local NCT. He dislikes the term 'Chair' and, seeing as I mostly deal with mums, came up with the nickname. (Not many dads join in sadly)

Eulalia, LOL at the sheep collection! Its a bit like that in our house. :-) And there are sheep across the river from us, too, so i can gaze on the real thing. Best of all is a lifesize wooden lamb DH gave me for my 40th. Really cute.

DH christened me 'Chairmum' when i became Chair of my local NCT. He dislikes the term 'Chair' and, seeing as I mostly deal with mums, came up with the nickname. (Not many dads join in, sadly)

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Baaaaaaaahhhhhhhh, Eulalia, would love to give the real thing, but under current movement restrictions I'm sorry my ewes will have to stay here with me!. I love sheep, husband doesn't, says that they are stupid, dense, and various other expletives that I couldn't repeat on here!, obviously take after my dad he was a sheep farmer who just happened to have over 100 suckler cows as well. Border Fine Arts do excellent sheep ornaments as well, usually Blackface, Suffolk, Charollais, and Texel, also saw somewhere can't remember the Thelwell folk, you know the ones with the fat ponies that do silly things, do sheep as well. Enjoy your sheep.

Lizzer, I know just what you mean about drawing mental pictures of everyone. Every now and again I'm convinced I've just seen a 'so-and-so' in the train. I'd like to know what everyone sounds like, too, especially when a discussion gets a bit heated. Then again, perhaps not!

My father was a pilot. I was going to call myself 'Spitfire' but thought that sounded a bit 'in yer face' so I chose his other favourite plane, hence tigermoth.

My online name is from 2 things: one because a beautiful friend of mine is Camilla and two, Cam are my initials since I got married. My real first name is not totally dissimilar either so it feels right.

Another animal name, I'm afraid, Nusch is my cat (I think she has a nicer name than me so I use it instead of mine).

Mima was my grandmother's name. I was sitting looking at a photo of her on my wall when I was joining Mumsnet and looking for a password.

I chose my nickname because I am a mum to two sets of twins, and also there is another twinsmum on this site. I saw Mumsnet advertised in a magazine, and have found it really interesting. I am feeling really ancient at the moment, as my younger daughters are leaving secondary school tomorrow, and will only be going back to sit their GCSE's. I don't feel old enough to have children AT secondary school, let alone be leaving, but that's another story!

Tigermoth, glad I'm not the only one then!

If you're interested I had you down as woman who wears lots of silky, draped clothes playing a harp ????!!! Just don't ask me why, funny how my poor little brain works isn't it - unless of course you DO play the harp - now THAT would be freaky!!!!

I wish I had chosen something exotic now instead of something close to my real name. I tell lots of my friends about this site and talk to my hubby about it, but then I realise I've perhaps been less than discreet in some boards and now I'm worried in case they know it is me!

Have you noticed how many names begin with Em on this site? Ems, Emmagee, Emmy...

Snowy is my cats name, she is rather fat and smells so I feel a certain empathy with her.

Slug is husband's pet name for me, after my ability to sleep at the drop of a hat. It's usually prefaced e.g. slimy slug when I have a cold or snuggly slug at other times. Rather sweet really in a strange sort of way. The bump is known as the sluglet.

Me too Emmam, I wish I'd chosen something better. We could all change our nicknames then see if we can work out who's who?!

Lizzer, I too draw mental pictures. Because of your nickname I've got you down as a fizzy blonde! Not meant horribly by the way!

Chairmum - are you the lady from Banchory?

Tigger - I have another toy sheep called Charlotte the Cheviot. Hope your ewes keep safe and sound.

Speaking of cats - our cat is called Zumo which is quite original. It is Spanish for 'squash' as in orange squash. Called that because my twin sister had a cat called Squash and we go to spain a lot.

Before my bump became Jonathan it was called Hamishina. We joked about giving him/her a traditional Scottish name and we think it is a bit cheesy the way some Scottish folk, particularly in the Western Isles extend male names.

I always think of Emmas as being blond and bubbly. Don't know why.

That's me, though I'm not sure that I'm a lady, lol!

Mine is a combination of my childrens' names i.e. Evan and Sylvie, hence sylvev. This sparked a deep discussion when Evan, 6, wanted to know why there were more of Sylvies' letters than his in the name! (I'm afraid I'd forgotten all about sibling rivalry and competition, I thought I was just being me and enjoying myself)!!!

my name is from Alan Bennett's accounts of his childhood- apparently the other boys called fields of rhubarb 'tusky'- I just like the sound of it and have been called it for ages by my husband and my parents- even my little boy knows that one of my names is Tusky !

Emmam, I am used to being amongst alot of em's, it must be our age, at school there were four emmas and two emilys in my class alone! My nickname is what i have been called by an old family friend all of my life

One thing that drives me mad is being called 'Em'. Some people call me that at work and I have to put them straight. My dad used to call me Emps.

Emmagee - were you born in the 70s? There were only two Emma's in my year at school, but after that it became really popular. Emily seems to have become popular in the late 80s early 90s.

Do you call your children by nicknames? For some reason I always call my son 'chicken' or 'sweetpea'. Not too bad as he's only 2, but probably can't call him 'sweetpea' when he's 15!