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What does your child’s teacher call you?

December 21, 2011 By Ellen

Learning the ropes as a parent And do you care? If someone from school has to ring you up, who do they as for? Do they ask for so-and-so’s mum or do they use your name. Do they always get it right?  If you the kind of family where everyone has the same surname, then […]

Filed Under: family, feminism, feminist Friday, names, schools.

Is Myleene a Hero for her baby name?

March 30, 2011 By Ellen

Huge congrats to the ever-grinning Ms Klass for the safe arrival of her second daughter, Hero. Not only on a healthy baby, but on an excellent choice of name inspired by a character in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. I expect people will queue up to have a go at a starry name, shoving her […]

Filed Under: Myleene Klass, names, stars.

Taking the train along the learning curve

July 19, 2010 By Ellen

Things I’ve learned from an adventure by rail.You will always hear things you didn’t expect to. “Shania, push Beyonce over here now. And you, Chardonnay, sit still.” Imagine my frustration that, as Boy Three was snoring gently on my chest, I couldn’t have a look at this splendidly named family further down the carriage.Bakugan will […]

Filed Under: Bakugan, names, other things I have learned, train, travel

My name is mummy… please use it

July 9, 2010 By Ellen

Mum, love, mummy, guapa (though not recently), Nell, madam, honey, Mrs Panther, wife, lady, Ms Arnison, boss, Ellie, mama, Ellen Mary, hen, Auntie Ellen, babe and, sometimes, simply Ellen. These are just a few of the things I’ve answered to over the years. And having a name as apparently complicated as Ellen, I’ve also been […]

Filed Under: aspergers, mummy, names

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