Monster & Teeny

I’ve been tagged by Shukr who’s blog I’ve just been catching up on (Hi, btw, nice to ‘meet’ you ) for this meme which is rather similar to one I was tagged for a while back so rather than recreate similar answers for that one I thought I’d give 8 facts about this blog and the people who feature in it instead. To quote Shukr ‘ to get to know the really interesting stuff you’d need to actually get to know me!’ also been tagged by Allie at Green House by the Sea too

The rules are simple…Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1. Monster & Teeny aren’t really called Monster & Teeny! I’m not going to ‘out’ them here as one of the reasons they are refered to that way on blog is to protect their anonymity. I do have a passworded blog elsewhere which names them and gives more details about us than I am happy to show on a public blog to the whole world! Monster’s real name is my maiden name though and Teeny’s real name is what I knew I’d call my daughter for many, many years before I actually had one. Monster was Monster’s nickname from before he was actually born and Teeny was one of the many names we gave Teeny as a nickname when she was born. They both occassionally get called Monster or Teeny in real life and ‘MonsterTeenies’ or ‘The MT’s’ have become our reference within the Muddlepuddle group. This always reminds me of The Ovalteenies and I often think we should really have a theme tune sung to that music.
2. We don’t have a table
3. We have one cat, three fish and five chicks currently as pets in our house. The cat is here til she dies, the fish are here until they grow too big for their bowls whereupon they get moved to my Dad’s pond and replacements with the same names purchased. Teeny’s fish are only 6 months old (to us) and are still the originals. Monster currently only has one fish as we’re waiting for it to be moved to Grandad’s pond before replacing both the fish - that will be Fred mark 3 and Albert mark 2. Any of our chicks which are hens will be taking up permanent residence here chez MonsterTeeny, we may keep one cockerel.
4. My favourite word is receptacle.
5. Teeny has never had a hair cut. She has had her fringe trimmed. Monster had his first hair cut when he was 8 months old. I have hair cuts as and when I decide I need one. A has very little hair but shaves what he does have on a pretty regular basis. Quite ironic that the most haircutted member of the MTs is the one with the least hair.
6. Monster’s favourite colour is red, Teeny’s is pink, her second favourite colour is yellow, mine is purple and A’s is blue.
7. Chez MonsterTeeny an affectionate nickname for any one of the family is ‘Snotface’ as used in the film Drop Dead Fred.
8. We have, more than once, had screaming contests while travelling by car on long journeys. Teeny is probably almost always the winner as she has better pitch.

And I tag:

Lucy from Beyond my wildest

Em at Title for life 

Bob at In at the deep end 

Katy at In at the deep end 

Anni at T Bird Anni Rides Again

Joyce at Moving at the speed of light

Gill at Sometimes its peaceful 

and because I know how she adores this sort of meme;

Alison at The Portico