tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24425707.post114624791183276098..comments2023-11-03T08:54:30.252+00:00Comments on The Inner Minx: Nom de BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03665385782194826703noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24425707.post-1146385371264506342006-04-30T09:22:00.000+01:002006-04-30T09:22:00.000+01:00I can go with Sparkle. When I was carrying the Sma...I can go with Sparkle. When I was carrying the Small Fecker the Big F wanted to call him 'Gordon' or at a push 'Percy' from Thomas the Tank Engine. I won on this count!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665385782194826703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24425707.post-1146345435749195972006-04-29T22:17:00.000+01:002006-04-29T22:17:00.000+01:00What a wonderful posting, Minx. Petrona is a rock?...What a wonderful posting, Minx. <BR/><BR/>Petrona is a rock? Very interesting. I called my blog Petrona becuase, yes I admit it, I had that "freeze" moment when I pressed "next" on blogger and it asked me what I wanted to call the damn thing. I have no imagination to speak of, I just knew I wanted my blog to be for "me", as nowhere else in my life is and I miss my solitude. So I thought of "Petronus" from Harry Potter (first appeared in book 3)-- the imaginary self, or the self as one yearns to be but can't. Petronus was taken as it turned out, and as I am a woman I changed it to the female form of "Petrona", which was available!<BR/><BR/>I have been meaning to post for ages on blog titles as I have been quite struck by a variety of titles -- some very straightforward, some punning or witty, some just the blogger's name (or nom de p), some are totally obscure and some are like your Hmmm. There is one of the british political blogs called "qwehmt" or somthing like that, with the subtitle "because all the other blog titles were taken". It is quite a dry witty blog (but all the british political blogs are totally obsessed with ID cards and being rude about Tony Blair as if he were Hitler, instead of galvanising themselves to use the power of blogging for something they can actually do something about on a practical level. If you sign up to the British political blogs you will read 15 posts a day all ranting about ID cards or John Prescott. Give us a break, guys, get like the booklit blogs, which are much more varied on the whole.)<BR/><BR/>Sorry, got distracted there! I love your Minxy personae (petronae?) <BR/>Maxine probably does mean greatest but please remember that a first name is one imposed on one by one's parents, not a name one has chosen for onself. I am happier as a Petrona (rock or other self) than as Maxine, a name that has never sat "comfortably" with me as I know the story of how my mother chose it -- or at least, the story she chose to tell me and no doubt many others. <BR/>Also this is a reason why my own children have rather boring names, and not "Scarlet" or "Rowena" as I might have wished!<BR/><BR/>When she was about 5, Cathy said to me "Mummy, why didn't you call me Leia"?<BR/><BR/>When Jenny was about 5 she decided to call herself "Sparkle" one day. She didn't tell us this, it happened while we were in a kid's educational games shop, one of those where you can try out the computer games. She spent ages on these games and "lost" us -- so the shop assistant asked her her name. "Sparkle" she said. So the annoucement came out over the loudspeaker: "would the mother or father of Sparkle come to the till"....you can fill in the rest!<BR/><BR/>Have gone on too much, apols.Maxine Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06628509319992204770noreply@blogger.com