Why did you choose your Rootschat name?

[suey]

  Think I'm about to change mine to Suet - the T is too close to the Y on the ketboard - see what I mean?

[Manchester Rambler]

I'm originally from Manchester, love hiking, and have ended up a long way from home - hence Manchester Rambler.  For those unfamiliar with the area, it's the title of a song written by Ewan MacColl for the "mass trespass" of 1932, when thousands of hikers confronted police and gamekeepers on Kinder Scout in protest against landowners who were trying to block access to the moors. 

Here's the last verse:

So I'll walk where I will over mountain and hill
And I'll lie where the bracken is deep;
I belong to the mountains, the clear running fountains
Where the grey rocks rise rugged and steep.
I have seen the white hare in the galleys
And the curlew fly high overhead,
And sooner than part from the mountains
I think I would rather be dead.

Rambler

[Paul E]

Ewan MacColl

I like your style - Manc Wanderer doesn't have the same ring to it!
I always   'enjoy' it when I hear an Irish band playing in an Irish pub striking up with 'Dirty Old Town'.  I've won more drinks than I can recall by taking bets on where the song is about.  Dublin, for some reason, always comes out top.  Its only rarely that anyone gets it right - Salford, of course!

all the best

Paul

[Manchester Rambler]

My party piece - given sufficient alcohol and a guitar!

Rambler

[jinks]

Jinks was a nickname at school,
There was also a Pixie and Dixie,

Sorry old cartoon characters,

I might change it at a later date, but it was the
only thing I could think of when I registered.

[Chicabee]

Chicabee

My first name is CHristy, I'm from CHICAgo, and I've used "Chica" to address my sis-in-law when sending emails-no special reason. Lengthening it to Chicabee just sort of happened, too...gives it a little more flare. The full-lenght version is
ChicabeeC.

[matty]

Hi Tabitha

Like you I choose the name of our cat "Matty" she is 19 years old  and now spends a lot of time in doors so it was an easy choice of  nick name for rootschat. 

Matty

ps I am female too

[scotmum]

Bit boring, really.....I'm Scottish and a mum  .

[claudia99]

Hi everyone,
As many have already said, wasn't sure how the site would turn out, so didn't use my real name.
Claudia was the name of the daughter of the previous occupants of our house!
There were references to her all over the house when we moved in - name plates on doors and books behind radiators, etc.
No reasoning behind the 99, thought Claudia on its own was boring!
Sign Claudia on my postings as it seems to confuse people when I sign Joanne!!

Claudia99 in Manchester, UK