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prue batten's avatar

I think of all the posts you've written, this one is my absolute favourite. I love the idea of naming things. The cottage here has always been called (uninspiringly) House, by me. But I have real conversations with it and it shares its humble existence with me. Our matchbox townhouse is called Balfour because that's the street it lives in. The beach we swim at is actually officially called Millington's Beach after my grandfather (long story) but we always call it the Front Beach, because back in the day, it was in the front of my grandparents' house.

Mum's Mini was always the Mini-Car, my first car was a Renault - Rene! And of course our dogs - so many names but its the nicknames I love. Mini Moocher, HazzBazz, Tagalot, Fang, HazzleBazzle, Feofifofum, Tararaboomdeay and so forth and naturally the dogs knew these other names!

Mum's walker (bright red with shiny black wheels) is called Lifesaver when I've had to use it.

I could go on but that'll do for starters.

I LOVE the names for Jim's hard drives!!!

Hope you're on the mend. XXXX

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Margreet de Heer's avatar

I just named my new vacuum cleaner 'Sucky'. Don't judge me.

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