and they named her..? (a 30 year old experiment repeated?)

At the grand old age of 55 I became a grandfather for the first time today.  So, yet another box ticked on the list of things whist on the planet, I now need to start wearing braces, a flat cap and have a never ending supply of Wethers Originals to hand.   Mother (Emily) and daughter (name yet to  be chosen) and doing just fine and my dearest has gone into overdrive making phone calls like there’s no tomorrow.

30 years ago when  Emily herself was born we couldn’t decide on a name.  At the time I was working for HM Coastguard at Calshot, and my boss – Station Manager Bert Downing sent out a telex simply entitled “and they named her..?”

The telex was forwarded from Coastguard station to Coastguard station right round the UK coastline and back to Calshot with each Coastguard station adding a name, the result being an enormously long telex with hundreds girls names to choose from!

I thought it might be fun to invite anybody who reads this post to add a girl’s name in the  “comments section” below (by clicking the speech bubble) so that Emily has a fine selection to choose from, just one name per post please. Somehow I don’t think I’ll be crashing my ISP’s server with comments but I did manage 145 comments back when I did a post about hacking your Sky Broadband router, so that’s the record I’m hoping to break…

Update 27th Jan

Well that was a waste of time then.  Guess I should have put this on  ‘twatter‘ but that’s one of those ‘technologies‘ that like Ricky Gervais I just don’t get.  Anyhow, who gives a stuff…   She’s since been Caroline Elizabeth…