Was his full name Dudley???? Duds is always fearful that people will think he's called Dudley.  

I'm not allowed to call him Duds in public  

And btw... you made my face go like this >>>>  

I must have a guilty conscience, cos a little part of me panics when I see my name in a thread title.  

I thought he was a Dudley

Do you remember the first time I used Duds' real name, and you asked me if I had another child I'd never mentioned before? It always makes me giggle to think of it. Did you imagine a Harry Potter type scenario, where I had one of them living under the stairs?  

Aww, sorry Ducky ... but imagine me. There I am in the pub and I get introduced to Duds (who,is called Dudley), and I giggle. 

Then my friends ask why I am giggling.

How do I explain about Ducky??

You are not the first to have that problem  

I sometimes find myself in conversation with someone and i may want to talk about something that's been said on here and I go ..........................................errm - a friend of mine blah, blah, blah - if some of the folks I know knew I spent so much time on here talking with online friends .........................they;d never understand 

I'm sure yours is a zillion times nicer though

Depends how much sleep he's had  

Oh, me too sooz. 

Hehe

I struggle with that too Soozy  

I was taken aback one day at work...I was in the staff room and someone mentioned something they'd seen on my FB.....and they mentioned Ditty by name It was weird hearing "Ditty" in that context. It was like two worlds had collided  

Ohhh, I couldn't do that Ducky

I have just increased my FB friend list from three to five!!

I don't like world's colliding, it sounds like a very bad dinner party!

HA!

I got talked about in the staff room *said in childish sing song voice*

And I really am off to bed now 

I didn't think about it when I first joined FB.....the only reason I joined was so I could continue to chat to people after hours when C4 used to close early, I didn't really expect to have real life people on my friends list at first.  Everyone else had the sense to use their forum name...except me..which didn't help.   

I used to be a bit paranoid about it, but I'm far more relaxed about it these days. No one at work has ever asked why everyone calls me Ducky though.....yet...  

The exact phrase was "I never understand what you and...is it Ditty... are talking about"  

I have more forum friends than RL on FB. I used to refuse all RL requests - my grandson was on my FB once and accepted a bunch of people. I very, very rarely use it though so it's not too problematic 

I don't like the sound of two worlds colliding if I'm honest

me either sooz.  I thinK I once set up a Rexi account on FB, but I never used it.  I bet if I could remember the password I would find a grand total of no friend requests!!

Please don't feel sorry for me and try and find me ... I have no idea what the password is, so,I will never use the account!