miss? 12 September 2008
I got asked today if I am a Mrs, a Miss or a Ms and the answer is that I just don’t know most of the time. The big one for me is the Miss or Ms question – I have forgotten which is the ‘good’ and which the ‘bad’ one there. I quite like Miss from time to time when I’m feeling pluckish and ‘young’. I kind of feel that Ms is a bit prissy? although I am sure some one of you will put me straight on that toot sweet. When it comes to the married name, well, that’s a whole other can of wurrums. My mother likes to send me letters addressed to Mrs Richard Cook, which I find faintly horrifying, and I am convinced that she does it to test me too. I was mid thirties when I married and a bit too long in the tooth to be changing my name, I felt. Also my stage/acting name is McLynn, and had been for 15 or so years by then – my writing name now too, of course – and I didn’t see how I could change all that at ‘late’ stage of my life, personal or professional. The Husband has no opinion on that at all, he says (there’s a man can spot a honey trap at some miles distant). Strictly speaking, if one were following the modus operandi my Mum and her generation would have gone by, I suppose she correct in how she addresses me in correspondence – but as she is also slightly wicked I don’t suppose I’m entirely wrong about her motives either…
My friend Connor Byrne (of the 2 n’s and who plays my husband in the film Hell’s Pavement, which is in completion at the moment) was at a rugby match last week in Lahndan’s Tahn. London Irish were playing and had their mascot with them. She’s an Irish Wolfhound called…MRS DOYLE. Huzzah. He said she’s lovely…and doesn’t look a bit like me…
