My son Henry's on livejournal

[watervole]

Henry finally got an LJ account. I doubt he'll post much but, in theory at least, it should make it easier to keep in touch when he's at university and also means he can post on the Interaction forum using his own name rather than mine or Richard's.

So, the Proctor lineup is now Richard waveney, me watervole and Henry exalted_mugwump.

I doubt that we'll see Kelvin (my eldest) on LJ - he doesn't like typing much.

I doubt we'll see Henry posting much, but you never know, he might get the bug.

Mugwump has been a family nickname for Henry for many years. I don't even recall where it originated now (it predates Harry Potter and Dumbledore's use of the title). He'd have gone for supreme_mugwump, but that was already taken.

Comments

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

Mugwump is an American political nickname for a fence-sitter, dating from the 19th century, and originating from an Algonquin word which means VIP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugwump

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-mug1.htm

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

> Henry finally got an LJ account

Someone mentioned the games room on Interaction's LJ community today. Maybe he could direct the poster to some info.