Just so you don’t think I’m a copy-cat

I stopped using S.’s real name when he became paranoid about law firms googling him and found out he burned the pea soup and sometimes snores, and such. But I have no qualms about my real name.

The vinagrette recipe looks wonderful! I thoroughly enjoyed this post, and I love the names you gave your boys. Looking forward to the annual report.
Courtney

As for names — your boys have lovely, solid, manly names. I don’t use my kids’ names (or my own for that matter) on my blog due to my hubby’s paranoia. I do like my “yogamum” persona and the kids’ nicknames sum them up pretty well.

U-Dad (I like to think of you as uber-dad, truth be told), You are Mr. Britain, that’s why. I told everyone at my workplace about my blog (because I don’t ever write about my work) and the net result is that I can’t tell anybody anything new because every interesting thought I have is already written down over here. (Which is pathetic, really, when you consider my infrequent posting patterns.) Of course, maybe I can, because I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess they aren’t reading my blog. (And if you work with me and are reading this, let’s just see if you leave a comment and declare that you are, indeed, a loyal BlogLily reader — I’ll leave you some really nice chocolate if you do!)

Anyway – the singing! Fantastic – he’ll treasure that success forever and I bet he’ll really catch the performance bug now. To sustain the vegetable theme, I’m currently awaiting turnip in left-over posh-but-packaged green curry sauce. Hmm!

I have waffled back and forth about using real names in my posts. I gave up trying to remember to just use initials, etc. Now I just use the names unless there is a compelling reason to not identify people. Like there is today.

My dear Mandarine, I’ve heard that works for nasty co-workers, unpleasant bosses, and the guy across the street who never mows his lawn. (Oops, that’s us!)

Edwin, it is. As Mandarine says, it’s a very basic vinaigrette, which is why it’s seldom reduced to the actual measurements. And I agree with Mandarine on the important point that this is also wonderful with chopped herbs thrown in.

Ann — Pride in authorship sometimes trumps the privacy you get through anonymity. I suppose if the subject agrees, then it’s fine to use his or her name — is that what happened with your book?

Helen, William also has my husband’s (and my father in law’s) first name. It’s a wonderful name — Weyman — and I’m proud someone gets to keep it. My in-laws have lots of great, unusual family names, but because my husband and I both had somewhat unusual first names and were sort of shy about it, we felt it was a good thing to give our boys solid, basic names that they could inhabit themselves.

Yes, Charlotte — I think names but not photographs. Not yet, anyway!
As for the veggies and the salads, you are after all in the land of brazen topless sunbathers. I think undressed veggies are at home there!

Hey Jerry — I think you are right to choose trust for all things in life. And I too am back to excelling in one small thing.

Thanks also for the recipe, I am cross-posting this to my wife and we will try it.

Now (for me) back to trying to excel through my stacks of paper.

I have used my children’s names in my blog, but I’ve chosen not to post their photographs. Other people make up names for their children, but post photographs of them. We all have our different ways of protecting our beloveds, even if it is just a small-scale effort.

Thanks for the vinaigrette. I always dress my salads but leave my veggies naked. Now that you’ve posted that, I might have to spare their shame.

Kiko is not Kiko’s birth certificate name, although that’s what we call him all the time. I named him after my brother and my granddad, a good strong Irish name, which will show his Irish heritage – even if he does look nothing like me! His middle name is his Dad’s first name. We had already planned his middle name to be something quite different but after the problems at his birth we wanted him to have a big strong role model to look to for support and his Daddy fitted the bill for that. Strong names are very important, I think.

About the vinaigrette: you are lucky grandma’s recipe is open-source, otherwise I might have asked for royalties. For a nice colorful addition, you could consider chives or parsley.

I am really looking forward to the annual report.

Your post made me a little nostalgic for my own little boy soprano (now grown). He went from soprano to bass quicker than you can say ‘sheet music’. While he was so proud the day he came home from a lesson to state that he had rehearsed the wrong music because “Now I’m singing alto”, I mourned for weeks that I would never hear that angelic boy soprano voice again. I can still imagine it though!

Loved reading about the names. I’ll have to try your vinagrette recipe. How can one not eat fresh veggies & vinagrette now that the milder weather has arrived, at least for those of us who have lived under snow and ice and grey, dreary skies for the last several months?