Where Are We From?

[Jennykenny]

Interested to know where most of the questions come from and from whom.
Me, female, early sixties, south coast of England.
Is this a practical question?

[Slapshot]

I had you as younger Peas.... ;0) xx

[Peaspeculiars]

Cheeky burger! ;o)

[Captain2]

Male, 61, originally north Manchester now Wilmslow. Desperately trying to find a family connection to a certain belligerent seafaring gentleman (no success yet) so hence Captain

[catswhiskas]

Me female 60, live near Sunderland, Hey blue toffee, lived in Grimsby for many years, hope you are enjoying Cleethorpes.

[netibiza]

Me, female, late, very late 60's, a little village outside of Ibiza town.

[netibiza]

..and originally from Eastbourne South East UK, then London.

[marval]

Yes female Slapshot, user name made up from first three letters of first name and first three letters of surname.

[kvalidir]

Female, 16, Herefordshire, previously London, Wales, US and Koln, chose my name which should have been Kvaldir ( typo) after Northrend creatures in World of Warcraft. I was previously Sharingan, named after the magic spinning eyes in Mangas.

[jim360]

Male, 24, Currently in Edinburgh, lived in Leeds most of my life though. Jim because my first name is James (and jim just seemed "cooler" -- when I was 13, at least), and 360 because 359 other people had the same idea when I'd first tried to use "jim".

Actually that's not quite true. I actually went online as "jim420" for a while, indeed because just plain "jim" was taken, and so some website suggested "jim420" instead. So I used that for a while. Until various American people started asking if I was doing drugs. It turns out that "420" is a sign for "let's do marijuana" in the US, apparently. So I changed to 360. Which is cooler anyway.

[Elina]

lol!

[netibiza]

Oooh will change my name to netibiza 420 !!

[piggynose]

bloke 55, brummie living in madrid, ab name came from ex bird.

[Buenchico]

Male, 61, incredibly good-looking (and self-deceiving!) in Suufolk.

'Buen chico' is colloquial Spanish for 'fine fellow'. I used to drink with a Spanish guy who, after a few too many bevvies (which was most nights of the week) would slap me on my back and declare: "Tu eres un buen chico. Si, tu eres un muy buen chico". He did it so often that I'd walk into the pub and people would say "Here comes Buenchico"

[Jeza]

Female 63 West Yorkshire. Also lived in Dusseldorf, Brussels, London, Salisbury and Northampton.

[pips1]

Female, 64, West Midlands but born in Yorkshire, pet name +1 as name already in use.

[marje]

Female, 66, born and now live in West Yorkshire, but did very briefly live in South Yorkshire when I was 4. Marje - shortened version of my full name, which I don't like.

[BlueToffee]

Yes catswhiskas, love it.

Name, born and bred on Merseyside and an Everton supporter.

[carolegif]

Female, 66, lived all over the country due to father's and then husband's jobs. Now living in Torbay. Originally from Liverpool. Abandoned grown up children in Cambridge, but their children spend their summers with us!

[Sparkles62]

I'm loving this thread,
I always presumed that Chris (Buenchico) lived in Spain, I always imagine you sitting in the sun answering our questions,
And I never realised that kvalidir was Shari,

Jeza, you are well travelled, was it your job, or Micks that took you to all the different places, or was it from your childhood?

[Maydup]

I live on the Norfolk Broads, well not afloat on them exactly, but in a Broadland village 10 miles from the coast. I'm female and made my name up.