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I'm just watching 'I Can Cook' and can't help but notice that one of the kids is called Esher.


Esher.


I mean seriously........Esher.


Now I admit that in my names book there was the name Croydon, and that if it wasn't for the association with a dreadful South London suburb it's actually aesthetically a nice thing, as is Esher thinking about it, but really they are London suburbs and intrinsically bad ideas.


So little Croydon also avoided Finchley and Soho and has a normal name, anyone else have any close calls with unwise naming ideas?

None that I can think of. But "I Can Cook"... seriously? "Big Cook Little Cook" is by far the superior kiddie cooking programme in that it has lots of brilliant adult only jokes (not sure if they're intentional). Unless of course you enjoy watching that irritating smiling/singing woman ;-)

Actually she reminds me of someone I had a crush on when I was 15 but that's another tale.


It is a bit Masterchef though isn't it, I mean, courgette and parmagiano, come on, they're four for goodness sake, cauliflower cheese perhaps? Gastro has corrupted the nation.


Right I'm off for some Jambon, Ouef and Frites.

Ooh, I rather like Bromley.

Well there's Heston of course. Lambeth has a nice ring, I'm thinking boys name.

Wembley, wasn't she a fraggle?


Putney has potential, maybe Mortlake (a bit harry potter mind you....I imagine)

How about Aveley?


Mudchute? Perhaps not.

We thought hard about the names for our kids and considered how they could/would be shortened (impossible, I know) by others. So, would Croydon become known as Don or Croy? Brom is interesting as a short version of Bromley, but not that interesting. I wonder if Wim Wenders is actually Wimbledon Wenders!

Our daughters haven't got awful names in themselves - well at least I don't think so. But the initial/surname combo should get them teased in the school yard. My OH's family has a tradition that all the kids' names have to start with the same initial as the Ma, in our case 'C'.


So our poor girls are both C Basses.

'Oh. I don't think so, Aisha is pronounced Esher, but it's spelt differently.'


Isn't Aisha an Arabic name pronounced like I..E..SHA? My friend was married to a French lady with North African connections and I'm sure that's what her name was and how it was pronounced.


There's always Chelsea if you want an area of London for a name. Good enough for the Clintons.

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