Pet names

Just Dear and Darling, though when I remember her name I use that

I don't use pet names as such, but generically, as Spec uses "dear", I use "pet". Leicester people tend to say "duckie", my Lincolnshire cousins say "me duck", and I believe up north they use "hen". What's the local equivalent where you live?

I use hen quite a lot but really need to try and stop when you see some reactions from some younger lassies, they seem to view it as sort of derogatory, when actually they couldn't be further from the truth