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General => The Shed => Topic started by: Garden Manager on March 08, 2006, 11:03:36
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Looking through the forums i have been looking at some of the names you use on A4All. Some are straightforward (eg based on your own name), some are cryptic, and some are just plain bizare.
Would any of you care to tell us why you chose the name you want to be known by on the forum? I am not asking you to reveal your real name if you wish to remain 'anon', but some idea of 'where you are coming from' would perhaps allow ups to get to know you a bit better (and satisfy curiosity ;D).
I'll start with my own 'Garden Cadet'. OK I am a gardener so that explains the 'garden' bit. The 'Cadet' part comes from the fact i do not consider myself a truly experienced gardener, and am still learning, so I am in gardening terms a 'Cadet'. I hope this makes sense.
Looking forward to replies.
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Mine's easy - my gardening website is moonbells.
It should have been moonrose (combining my astronomy and gardening hobbies) but someone beat me to the .com domain, so I went for bells instead as I liked the sound of it!
I am moonrose just about everywhere else, however! Decided to stick with moonbells for this login so it matched the gardening site.
moonbells
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supersprout was my first online alias for eBay, and it seemed appropriate for this site. I sprout a lot of seeds all year round for home consumption, and they are super. That's it! NB the alias is nothing to do with Brussels Sprouts :P
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Mine is just a tag for an old hotmail address I had years ago based upon part of my name and a randon 2 numbers.
Jerry
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For what it's worth, I used euronerd originally on an American (computer-related) forum, partly to identify me with 'rightpondia' and partly to add a touch of humour - lost on the Americans. Through nothing but laziness, I thought I might as well see if it worked on here (and ditto Flickr). For no good reason, I dislike such names as 'geoff72298165'.
Geoff - real name.
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I imagine this may fall into the weird category.
7 is my lucky number and crops up a lot in my life - three 7's are very lucky but I am not superstitious.
When I was younger I used to play in a lot of rock bands and have hair past my waist (not too mentioned back combed and dyed! I'm also 6'2") when I started work at my current place of employment someone said he looks like Gloria Estefan and it stuck. It go shortened to Glo and then a w got added (don't know why)
so glow777 - obvious eh?
Real name Ian!
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I noticed that many members had taken the names of plants, nothing unusual in that. A friend suggested various names, and I liked Curry because ...
- I have a curry plant in my garden
- I enjoy eating curry :D
Simple really - just like me !
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Larkspur is the model name of one of my bicycles, I am a keen cyclist. It has nothing directly to do with the flower. :D
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Hi Richard my name is Rosebud, because i love roses, so i thought it a rather nice user name. Great thread by the way very interesting. ;D ;D
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Tulippa because I love spring flowers. I did check the spelling at the time but have since seen it spelt with one 'l'!
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Guess??
Because my true names are John Francis Durham E.........., none of which were ever used!!
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loulou my eldest daughter is called emmalouise we call her loulou for short she loves the gardening so i used her nick name my real name is caroline the only nick name i get called is caz but that was taken i think
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my name was originally Jesseveve which is a combination of my middle name and my daughters name. Everyone on the forums call me jesse so that's what I've changed it to, much easier to spell. :)
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I rarely get called by my true name...I get "H" "Helly" "Hels" and the lads at work used to call me Heldi ,and because my Dad used to use that nickname after hearing someone shout it out, I chose that one. I guess I could have spelled it different..Heldee or Heldy but I didn't.
Helen x
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I called myself busy_lizzie because I like them. They are cute little border plants, nice and colourful and I usually have them in my flower beds every year, and also because when you are a gardener in the growing season, you are always busy doing one thing or the other, trying to keep ahead of Mother Nature. :) busy_lizzie
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I called myself dirtyfingernails because I'd just come in from the lottie when I first registered for the site and hadn't been able to get the dirt from under my fingernails - so there I was, trying to think of a name and looked down......
real name Fran x
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There was me Jerry thinking the 89 was your sail number.
MikeB
Real name is 'err 'em, well ' Mike'
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I'm called keith, but have a speech impedimant and cant say my th's properly - hence keef.
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There was me Jerry thinking the 89 was your sail number.
Mike, that is 2978Y.
:-)
Jerry
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Haven't a clue :). It's a family nickname - my brother and sister used to call me Bup or Bupster - so I kept it. Most forums I use my real name - Carina.
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Boring old me - simply used my own name. ::)
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Good thread. I'm Wicker not because I'm a basket case (well not all the time!) but because I come originally from Wick(er) - tho anyone knowing the dialect would say it should be pronounced "weeker" ;)
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Hi Richard, A4A name, Windygale, my surname is GALE and another name for Gale is Windy, my brothers use the nicknames of stormy, & gusty.
hope this helps
windy ;)
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Hi
This is a really interesting thread ;D.
I'm PAKABA, because our surname begins with an A, and i'm Paula,(PA) dh is Keith(KA) and my eldest son is Ben(BA), i used it for the first time when he was just born.
so I guess now instead of signing off Pakaba i can sign off Paula. :)
Paula
;D
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Heh, good thread
I'm 'Bellebouche' because that's the name of our little hamlet where we're first time gardeners and learning running a small allotment (or French 'potager') by jumping in at the deep end. Last year was only really half a year but we "did rather well" http://www.bellebouche.com/2005cultivation.html (http://www.bellebouche.com/2005cultivation.html) (thanks to some pointers from the A4A forum!)
Adrian
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trav = first part of surname.. man = cos i was last time i looked ;)
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What a fun thread! When I first joined a message board I wanted to remain anonymous so I decided to fashion my name on one of my favourite football players and called myself Erica Cantona. But I forgot my password and had to register with a different name so I went for Georgie, after Georgie Best, my girlhood hero. Yup, true red. ;)
G xx
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I'm named after Bob Geldof's daughter Fi Fi Trixiebelle ;D
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Heh, good thread
I'm 'Bellebouche' because that's the name of our little hamlet where we're first time gardeners and learning running a small allotment (or French 'potager') by jumping in at the deep end. Last year was only really half a year but we "did rather well" http://www.bellebouche.com/2005cultivation.html (http://www.bellebouche.com/2005cultivation.html) (thanks to some pointers from the A4A forum!)
Adrian
I really enjoyed looking through your blog, super! :D
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Mine is fairly straightforward really. Pauline is my first name, S is what my surname begins with and 7 is the day when I was born.
Pauline
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;D
Great thread!! Have always been curious about peoples choice of name!!
Katy is a nickname I used to have because Caroline is too long and no one ever used it, but that's my real one. The "newbie" part was so that people would realise that I knew very little when I first joined the site last June, that has not changed!!
;)
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Mine is sort of self-explanatory really. Garden, because I'm never happier than when working in my garden. As for the 'girl' bit, I think this is wishful thinking at my age ;D
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mat is because my initials spell "mat" it was given to me in 1999 by the Open University as part of my login, and it has stuck... I used to hate it as a child, but I have grown so find of it over the last 7 or so years thanks to the OU, that I now use it in many places!
mat
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Hi Richard my name is Rosebud, because i love roses, so i thought it a rather nice user name. Great thread by the way very interesting. ;D ;D
Yes Rosebud i agree very interesting. Been thinking about starting it for some time, but never before got around to it
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It is funny how you form opinions of people based on the name they chose - you are busy shattering some of these!
Mine I use on various things and is the name of the computer in the Discworld books. Just to show how bad at names I am, both my son and my dog are named after pratchet characters. My Dad (Palustris) guessed who it was from the user name.
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Hi,called grotbag cos many years ago had a niece who was a right misery one night and we were watching a prog with grotbag the witch in it so I told her that is wot i was going to call her.Instead I got stuck with it .
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Good thread - glad I am not the only nosey one out there.
Mine is after one of my parents dogs - who is called Daisy and her nickname is Daisymay - not sure why! I kind of adopted it a user name a few years ago as she happened to come to see me for some fuss as I was trying to think of one.
(My real name is Gemma)
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Hi, mc are my initials and the 55 is just for fun !
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cos i like 'em-i got 8 of the little tinkers and i paint them a lot!
purrrr!
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cos i like 'em-i got 8 of the little tinkers and i paint them a lot!
purrrr!
It's cruel to paint kittens! ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
G xx
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but why stick to borin ol' tortoishell? ;D ;D ;D
i likes 'em pretty colours!
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LOL! Are you going to show us some of your paintings, Kitty? We have some very talented posters here and we so enjoy looking at their creations. :)
G xx
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'Aeeeek'...another old hotmail email name , started out as my initials AEK but that was already taken ,,so just kept adding the 'e's..real name Anne
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LOL! Are you going to show us some of your paintings, Kitty? We have some very talented posters here and we so enjoy looking at their creations. :)
G xx
well she's good....
moonbells (proud half-owner of a kitty original :) )
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The_Snail. Why the_snail? Well basically I like snails. Its strainge but true.
Why do I like snails?
Well basically I like all animals. If it has a heart then it has a soul and should need protecting like yourself and myself.
Are you mad?
Eeeerrrrmmmmmm..............
The_Snail
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do snails have hearts?
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Kitty - love your paintings, they made me smile !
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OK mc55, but why is your website called duckdinnerdash???????????
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;D This thread could be a record breaker :o if all members join in ;D
You'll never have guessed, my name is Roy and I am from Birmingham United Kingdom ;D
I can't wait to hear from DuckFan :o
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Digaround - simply i go and dig-a-round the lottie and hope every thing i plant comes up :-\
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Weedin Project - what we called our garden when we moved into our new house; kind of like the Eden Project (especially as we put two
biomes greenhouses up!) but not quite the same scale or diversity.
Still weedin', still a project.
And before anyone asks if we grow the same things as Eden Project, no, we don't have a hemp section!
Real names - Stewart (Weedin) & Cathy (Mrs Project).
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Lorna cos it is my name and I LIKE IT !! (It has always amazed me that as I am the eighth one of nine my Mother/Father came up with such a nice name IMHO!! ;D) but I hate my second name.
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hey - less of the abuse ...
... Duck Dinner Dash is a kinda pun as my surname is Duck, but I'm a vegetarian (which amuses my friends no end) and I like to do things at full speed ! ... warped humour I guess, but it works for me ... I think its funny and it kinda fits with the allotment providing dinner theme too.
I also adore making cakes and baking in general, so if I ever get my olde tea shoppe it will be christened with the same name. Did think about DCUK, but have been beaten to it - there's an old shop in Whitby, which used to be 'DUCKs' (no relation) and is now something else, but the U & C have been swapped round ... cool 8)
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E is for a name I will never admit to owning and the Magggie bit has 3 gggs
because every other variation of Maggie is being used by someone else...
;D ;D ;D ;D
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Well my real name is Bernard Archibald Bartholemew. ;D
Also known as Emma Jane. Hate being called Emma Jane, only my teachers and my mum when I was in trouble called me the full name, but it is a complete name, I am not Emma, but Emma Jane. ;D
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I'm Pansy because I love them, they're bright and cheerful, and also I'm a bit of a pansy myself sometimes :)
Jackie
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Moudie..............is the Scottish name for a mole.A fellow son of the soil. ;)
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Have to say I love this thread :)
Scotch-mist is a mixture of me being proud of being Scottish,
and a Glasgow expression my granny used to use when I was a wean.(takes me back to my childhood ;))
Have to add that since joining A4A I've discovered that it is also a haar(Scottish sea fog) a whiskey and the name of a white heather(my favourate plant)
My real name is Marie :)
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Katy is a nickname I used to have because Caroline is too long and no one ever used it, but that's my real one. The "newbie" part was so that people would realise that I knew very little when I first joined the site last June, that has not changed!!
Erm ... shouldn't it be Katyseniormember now though? ::) OK, maybe that doesn't have the same ring to it ...
I'm Juliet on all the forums I post on because it's easy for me to remember. I played the character once (used to do a lot of acting) & the name stuck.
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Came in from the garden before registering ( again - forgot my previous login) and struggling to think of an alternative because Kaz was taken ( possibly by me!). Couldn't think of a plant that felt like me at the time so moved on to fauna. Had just been looking at the rockery to see if the little frogs were about so.... froglets it was.
Real name Karen
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Great thread, this!
I just chose the name of one of my tortoises. I could have been Maurice, Boris, Bruce, Nelson, Della, Edith, Sid Or Elsie! :)
This is the real Myrtle.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/myrtle60/tortoises/myrtle2.jpg)
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awww myrtle, good to see one of your secret weapons at last 8), she's lovely
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wow - what a beautiful tortoise!!....and are those colours true?
my nickname came about simply cos I wanted it to be veggie connected... so chose potato and thought a 'hot one' might be 'catcy' ;)...therefore - hot potato!!....wish I'd thought of just 'hot pot' tho which I get called sometimes by some of you - I like that even better!
real name is Margaret but I prefer Maggie!!
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I was called 'plain Jane' at school (by the teachers), there were four Jane's in my year so I guess they had to find some way of referring to us all. I love daisies and as it's also used as a name Daisy_Jane was born!
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'Cos I,m Michaels mum! (12 year old son who works the allotment with me.
Hubby who is a Paddy doesn't "do spades"!)
Helen
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i think us gardeners are nosy by nature!we all seem to love this thread!
i looove myrtle!partly cos i love tortoises ;D but i also have a myrtle-my favourite cat-partially bald tortoiseshell cat(of course!)-dont tell the others shes my favourite tho-or there'll be trouble!
thanks to everyone who emailed me to say they like me art! ;D
and to the ones who want to see ...click on my siggy at the end of me post!
hi moonbells! ;)
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Simple really... my favourite plants are aquilegias. The word also contains all the letters in my real name apart from one. But I only just realised that!
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Hi Kitty! ;D ;D
moonbells
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I agree, great thread.
I have taken my nickname from the name of my dear dog I lost 18mths ago, she was a lurcher and very fast (hence nippie) I now have another lurcher called Sadie who is my avatar, so as not to show favoritism :)
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Hello
Mines a really boring name I'm afraid.
M for Melanie and M-B for my surname.
Wish I was interesting like lots of you :)
Melanie
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Mrs_KP (and the underscore was most important) has been with me for a few years now since me and the OH (the original KP) got together. I couldn't register with the _ though, so it was condensed :-[
The KP is Kinning Park, south side, Glasgow where the OH comes from..... and yes there really is a KPNuts (although he doesn't come on this board lol).
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The_Snail. Why the_snail? Well basically I like snails. Its strainge but true.
Why do I like snails?
Well basically I like all animals. If it has a heart then it has a soul and should need protecting like yourself and myself.
Are you mad?
Eeeerrrrmmmmmm..............
The_Snail
Just going to add a little more to the reason why I like snails. They are interesting creatures. I like the way they carry there homes on there backs. Also it is very interesting to see how they behave. They do some good for the enviroment also in the manor of providing foor for toads and birds. Ok they are a pest when they eat your plants but you can protect your plants. I have to admit also that I use slug pallets :o in the greenhouse because 1 slug or snail can cause a disaster on a seed tray full of seedlings. But other than that my garden and slugs and snails live together in harmony.
The_Snail
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hi, karrot because they were the only successful thing i grew in my first year last year ;D.
real name keri
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Mine? I'm female and live in the Cotswolds. That's me, whereas my full name feels more like a professional pen name so too work-related for off-duty and my nickname can be male or female.
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My brother's initials, my sister's initials and my initials. Not something I could easily forget! My first name is Anne so you can probably work out that I'm the one in the middle. I actually am the youngest so it should go: RCGCAW ;D ;D ;D But just try pronouncing that one!
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Cool topic :D Have sometimes wondered about some of the weirder names, but hadn't the gumption to ask! :P
Mine probably falls slightly into the "weird" class. It's been observed by some of my family and friends that I share many of the characteristics of Tolkien's hobbits, apart from smoking pipeweed and the slight inconvenience of being over 6ft. Hence the mutant bit. Me, I think I'm more like Tom Bombadil actually, hoping to bump into Goldberry! :-[ Ah well, I'm sure other people know me best! ::)
You can just tell I'm a LOTRs anorak can't you... ;D
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Cool topic :D Have sometimes wondered about some of the weirder names, but hadn't the gumption to ask! :P
You can just tell I'm a LOTRs anorak can't you... ;D
Ooooh! I'd have hever have guessed if you hadnt told me! - LOL LOL LOL! ;-)
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Hi.
Mine is my initials and birthday - same as for ebay. Not very imaginative, but easy to remember :)
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Quite plain and boring really I grow alpine plants and also go mountaineering so Montanum (from the mountains) seemed quite logical.
Montanum.
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Erm, well, my surname is 'Foster' lovingly shortened to 'fozzy' by my OH. Shortened my first name 'Louisa' to 'lozzy' and put the 2 together and got 'fozzylozzy' and there we have it...!
Louisa xx
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Guess
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What an interesting thread.
My name comes from my favourite band called the grifters. they had an album called' full blown possession' and i used to have an email address called full blown grifter. however, people got the wrong idea behind its meaning so i shortened it to fbgrifter.
I like the name because i've noticed that people assume i'm a bloke...but my real name is natalie!
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Merry Tiller,
Guess
are you a happy ploughman :-\ or could it be that your real name is Terry Miller ??? Won't sleep now thinking of possibilities.............
Still loving this thread by the way.........
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Guess
Are you the proud owner of a Merry Tiller cultivator? ::)
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I can see this is going to be a BIG thread.
The_Snail
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There are so many margaret's around (all of a certain age) including a close
friend. When someone call's ,Marg Iam usually theothermarg ;D
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Going well - but there are still some who are so coy that they have only repeated their web name. Makes my listing very difficult!
Yes, Natalie - it worked with me, but it can sometimes backfire?
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Mines is the name I was born with, and still proud to use, but god help anyone my Mother here's call me Dick.
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Sorry, Tim - explanation already given for Wicker - but it's Megan here. Ref theothermarg's post, the reason for Megan is because it's Welsh form of Margaret and my Nan thought there were too many Maggies in the family already!
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Richard. Quite agree with your Mum!! My only son (got three daughters) is John, one or two of his school pals called him Johnny that is until I heard them ;D
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Am I alone in wondering why 'undercarriage plan' hasn't posted here?
Geoff.
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Am I alone in wondering why 'undercarriage plan' hasn't posted here?
Geoff.
She and a few others left in January to set up their own site.
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It was my nickname when I was a young ton up boy racing around the north circular on my BSA. Now it is the case of 'the older I get, the faster I was' My joke email is acegardener so they call me ace once again. I started on A4A as heritage (bike related again) but changed it to ACE, mind you it is not what my wife calls me!
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Ah OK, thanks Mike. So now I'll never know lol.
Geoff.
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Am I alone in wondering why 'undercarriage plan' hasn't posted here?
Geoff.
She and a few others left in January to set up their own site.
What site is that then. Might go and 'look them up'. then ask them about their screen names.
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What site is that then. Might go and 'look them up'. then ask them about their screen names.
http://allotmentsnstuff.forumup.co.uk
I was given my name by the Vicar's wife!! I used to do huge floral displays for her in church ;D
I would often be in the vicarage for coffee with my 'garden buddy' and whenever anyone called I would get introduced as "this is .......... the flowerlady"!!
She's in Cornwall now I miss her heaps :'(
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The mind does boggle at the concept of Undercarriage Plan... ::) Nip n tuck?? ;D ;D ;D
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ahhhh that ones easy to explain if u know where to ask and wudnt think she needed any surgery of any kind :) only seen pics though and as for me tis easy as well just guess
wrong ;D ;D ;D
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Mine is my initials and birthday - same as for ebay. Not very imaginative, but easy to remember
1704??????
good grief-almost as young as tim!
sorry tim! ;D
kitty
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I started on A4A as heritage (bike related again) but changed it to ACE, mind you it is not what my wife calls me!
ACE, we were wondering where you were over in Watershed - keeping your topic alive for you ;) Hope the new grands well?
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Nice to know, ACE!!
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Not backfired yet tim....it amuses me how we all make assumptions about others, we all do it and they're usually wrong. i love peoples' faces when i tell them i have an allotment!
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My name was chosen by simply looking at the label of the plant next to me when I was using the computer - the Carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua aka locust bean, St. Johns Bread and many other things.
Somebody earlier in the thread asked if snails have hearts and the answer is yes. They have brains, too!
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What site is that then. Might go and 'look them up'. then ask them about their screen names.
http://allotmentsnstuff.forumup.co.uk
Thanks. I've bookmarked the site to have a look at (and perhaps join) later.
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I chose the name gardening giraffe as I absolutely adore giraffes, have a few cuddly ones and screensavers etc plus I go to the local safari park once or twice a year to feed them. And the gardening, hence I adore goardening so I jsut combined the two.....
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http://allotmentsnstuff.forumup.co.uk
Wondered what had happened to them, looks like I missed all the action!
Gardening Giraffe - love your name, I too have a fascination with giraffes - have 4 on my desk (toy ones obviously!) and we are going on safari for our honeymoon later in the year - can't wait! ;D
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Becasue Molly Bloom is my all-time favourite fictional character and I grow blooms (among other things).
tim - is it "Truly - It's Me"?
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My name is Gemma and i was always very little as a child, so littlegem was my CB call sign and it's just stuck (not so little now though, reached 25 a few years ago and its all going badly wrong!)
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Sprout? Wanted something allotmenty. It was the first one I tried which wasn't already in use. Real name is Mark
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Well this is bringing you all out in force ;D
So many new names, so many more people to chat to. How nice.
Hello to you all ;)
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I'm a wierdo.
Great Grandma Blanche Bennett married into the family bringing 4 unmarried sisters and a strain of depressive insanity with her. One of the Mad Bennett Aunts had to have her entire leg amputated - we don't know why - and she had it embalmed and a long casket made for it. It lived in the house and was brought out on high days and holy days for inspection ("showing off") to the family guests. It nearly wasn't buried with her but someone remembered at the last minute.
Hence Bennettsleg. My mother's ashamed of me... ;D ;D ;D
Real name: Anna
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Anna what a fascinating story and how great to have such eccentric and colourful relatives. Something to be proud of I am thinking! :D busy_lizzie
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I'm a wierdo.
Great Grandma Blanche Bennett married into the family bringing 4 unmarried sisters and a strain of depressive insanity with her. One of the Mad Bennett Aunts had to have her entire leg amputated - we don't know why - and she had it embalmed and a long casket made for it. It lived in the house and was brought out on high days and holy days for inspection ("showing off") to the family guests. It nearly wasn't buried with her but someone remembered at the last minute.
Hence Bennettsleg. My mother's ashamed of me... ;D ;D ;D
Real name: Anna
IF THERE'S A PRIZE FOR THE BEST, MOST WELL-JUSTIFIED SCREEN NAME, THIS IS IT!!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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yup!bennetsleg wins by a short head...or leg.... :o
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I would lay bets that no member can top that one. ;D Fascinating.
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Heh, good thread
I'm 'Bellebouche' because that's the name of our little hamlet where we're first time gardeners and learning running a small allotment (or French 'potager') by jumping in at the deep end. Last year was only really half a year but we "did rather well" http://www.bellebouche.com/2005cultivation.html (http://www.bellebouche.com/2005cultivation.html) (thanks to some pointers from the A4A forum!)
Adrian
I really enjoyed looking through your blog, super! :D
Heh, glad you enjoyed it.. this growing year we'll be doing a lot more web page writing as over the winter we've used the downtime from not gardening/doing renovations to actually get the website a bit better organised.
The potager is so much a way of life around here and the whole relationship with food (erm, and wine!) was one of our motivators for moving out to France - a year into it and we've had huge fun growing and producing much of our own food.
All the news that's fit to print is in http://www.bellebouche.com/blog (http://www.bellebouche.com/blog)now and the most recent exciting development is I've decided to put in an asparagus bed and bought 30 crowns for it! The frost looks to be behind us now so that'll get dug in the next few days.
:)
Adrian
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Loving your blog, Bellebouche.
:)Lishka
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Re an earlier post - Undercarriage Plan was supposed to be a combination of Undercarriage and Plant to reflect the joint interests of UC and her partner but she ran out of room when entering her username and was stuck with it. :D
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Going well - but there are still some who are so coy that they have only repeated their web name. Makes my listing very difficult!
okay I get the message! I know you (and some others) already know my actual name from our PM's and I have already explained mat is from my initials, which I have grown to love; but my real name is Melanie (almost everyone knows me as Mel) but for emails, etc, I am mat! Very confusing when my manager is called Matt and I send emails to work from home from "mat"!!!
mat
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Thanks bupster. I went over there and sneaked a look :)
Geoff.
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good way to introduce myself i suppose...i have been snooping on your site for weeks having just got an allotment and wanted to say hello. My A4All name is self-explanatory, i am a school nurse...real name sarah. :)
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Hi NN welcome
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NN. Welcome aboard, lots of fun and best of all advice on here. How about telling us a little about yourself. Enjoy
Lorna.
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What can I say?
Can't dig, can't plant...... lucky I've got a great OH who does all the hard work!(he wrote that...)
I do the "vision" part and define the "concept" (think channel five decorating programmes)
But with any luck we'll have some onions and spuds by december!
We got our half plot at the end of jan and have dug one and a half beds by now (2 kids under 2 are as helpful as you can imagine)......... ten minutes after finishing the first bed and congratulating ourselves our local critic arrived to tell us how we had done it all wrong!
From what I see the A4A advice is a little more positive than that!
Happy chitting
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hi nittynora, (love that name ) ;D ;D
Congrats on digging your first beds , (It's bl***y hard work) Especially with helpers, mine are 3yrs and 1yr ;D
As for the local critic, send him to us, he'll find that even the most experienced are wise enough to admit they still have a lot to learn when it comes to mother nature ;D ;D ;D
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I can't beat bennettsleg (late catching up on my Internet schtick, so way behind everyone else in the conversation, sorry). However, my username on a different forum was Snad. Grandpa-in-law used to refer to his nose as a snad-bix (he had a habit of deliberately mispronouncing words - he meant snot-box, apologies to those of a squeamish disposition). Since my hooter is rather a faceful, I adopted Snad as my username of choice. Got sick of explaining it to people, though, so decided to go all literary this time around... 8)
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Not read through all this so don't know whether it is still on thread or not but clanger was a school/fellow sibling nick. Red came about because there are one or two other clangers out there in web world, but for why 'red' take your pick - football club or if you are American, my politics (I have been banned from an American chat room based purely on my views (and I though McCarthy was dead) on Bush and the war)*. Redimp elsewhere links it defintely to football as I support the redimps. This was also the name used on the American site as clanger made it too long.
* Partially achieved ambition of being refused entry to the US ;D
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I am Lord Steve cos I logged on to another gardening board as SteveL and they speculated about what the L stood for ... reckoned I was posh so ... Lord Steve was born!! It kind of stuck :)
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whereas it really stood for Steve..Loveaduck... aint that the truth ;D
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nothing to do with booze.
years ago i was a member of a formula one forum and we all used to go and meet and camp at the british grand prix, i wore those trousers that zip off to make shorts and they nicknamed me legless, so its what i use on the internet everywhere now.
Jo
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Are you ready for this,
Our surname is Owen which rhymes with growing.
Shall I get my coat now...................
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As long as it's your owen!! ;) ;)
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The Growing Family. Can't remember saying WELCOME so Welcome to this great site.
ENJOY....Lorna
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Hi All.
Thought I might as well join in (I too, often mooch around the site without posting)
My ''name'' Moriwaki
was, I think, from the French run. Kawasaki endurance motor cycle race team. The late Steve Hislop rode for them quite a few years ago. I have a set of his leathers with Moriwaki sewn on??
I have a life long love of M/Cycles, trials and pure road racing, particular Bike hero was Joey Dunlop of Isle of Man TT fame :'(, but also like Moto GP, BSB and WSB.
Also like allotments and A4A.............There now you are bored
M
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Mines very straightforward, my real name is Robin and i'm common, hence Ragged Robin!
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Carrotcruncher - 'cos I come from Lincoln originally & my work mates joke that the only thing grown in Lincolnshire is carrots...oh, and the odd tulip or two
CC
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Not much imagination here. :)
My name is Denise, and my surname starts with a B.
I've used that name on another forum for almost 3 years now, and I suppose I'm so used to it it never occurred to me to create a new one. I suppose it does have a slight gardening connection though. :)
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My alias has nothing to do with gardening - Philip Pullman (he of dark materials fame) wrote a series of books for children about a victorian teenager called sally lockhart.
"Sally is sixteen when the story begins, orphaned and alone. She's had an unconventional education: her knowledge of English Literature, French, History, Art and Music is non-existent, but she has a thorough grounding in military tactics, can run a business, ride like a Cossack and shoot straight with a pistol."
http://www.philip-pullman.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=28
She also has an illegitimate child after she sleeps with the hero of the first book who then promptly dies in a fire but she refuses to give the child up and lives in social disgrace for the rest of the series (combining solving mysteries with childcare of course). Was always a bit of feminist at heart so liked the character ;D
sl
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Mine is an easy one to guess! I used to cook in a private residentia home, and every morning, one of the care assistants came in and said: whats for lunch cookie ? I also use cookie as part of my e-mail. Real name Andrea :)
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Markfield Rover comes from the village football team I played in Leicestershire. They were in the North West
Leicestershire Miners League and I wish I could play 90 mins once again without running out of steam.
Anybody from that end of the country who played in the same league in the 70's. not a very interesting
reason but when I use the "title" the memories come flooding back !