Topic: names

[the_snail]

Basically I like slugs and snails :D I think I must be the only gardener that does like them! They do provide a great food source for thrushes, blackbirds and frogs plus many more animals :)

[wivvles]

I live in Wiveliscombe, known to locals as Wivey.  I am "Wivey Wolf" on other MB's I use (due to my birthplace and football team) but thought that didn't sound right for an allotment board.  Wivvles is a nickname one of the users on one of the other MB's I use came up with - so here I am!!!!

[slugcatcher]

And theres me Sexy snail thinking you wanted to be caught by Slugcatcher ;D ;D ;D

I have no idea why i decided on this, must have had one of those funny days

Ron

[Bionic Wellies]

When I bought a computer from Gateway some years ago it came in a box disguised as a freesian cow (kinda square maybe - but definitely cow-like).  So, as I was setting up a network I decided to have a theme - the computer became known as Ermuntrude.  Later I added a new machine for the kids so that I would be able to use my machine - I named it Daisy.  Then I needed a laptop - so that became Rover (corny I know). Finally, I set up another machine and called it Wellies.

I had used Daisy as a nickname on other sites but kept being chatted up by blokes who thought that I was a girlie. So, when I first joined A4A and needed a name I thought that I would keep in theme and wanted to portray myself as a macho/male fit gardener (despite all the evidence to the contrary) - it just had to be Bionic Wellies - and it made me smile when I though of it.
 

[Palustris]

Mine is a rather boring Latin pun!

[JohnnyLarge]

A friend started calling me Large 'cos of that programme on telly where they say 'Laaaaaarge'. ( Paul Whitehouse thing??)
It then became JohnnyLarge.
I'm not really large at all. 6ft and 14stone.
John ;D

[Fingle....]

Erm...apart from the F it includes all the letters in my first name, apart from 2 others  !  Thats not the actual reason, but it looks plausible. I think I was reading about Celts etc at the time and it just kinda popped in my head.

Bit crap really, sorry !!

[SpeedyMango]

My first car was a dark green VW Beetle (elm green, if I recall), and given the shape,  a friend named it the Speedy Mango. It became my 'call sign' when we took multiple cars on a few holidays and to VW rallies and used CB radios to keep in touch on the road.

[sweet-pea]

I picked mine because I like Sweet peas, and 'cause I liked the sound of it.  I'm really called Kate  :)

[Roy Bham UK]

;D I'm waiting to hear from "Crackintackle" ;D Thought she was a he at first :o

[Lazybones]

Guess why I chose mine???  ;D
No, I'm not really THAT lazy.  Just felt it when I happened upon this fab website and realised I hadn't been down to the lottie since Christmas.  Although working part-time and having a 19 month old daughter might have something to do with that. 

Maybe I should change it to 'notquitesomuchofalazybonesasiwaspreviously' but it doesn't flow off the tongue as well. :-\

[Lillypad]

One part's a slight variation on my abbreviated Christian name.

The other's my surname - or would be if I ever make an honest man of Mr L!

Put the two together and they make Lillypad. Simple, if somewhat boring.

[Plottie]

When I first got my plot, I talked to anyone and everyone who would listen (and a few who didn't want to listen!!) about it, what I was going to do, where everything was going to go, when I was going to do it etc. etc.
One day a colleague came in and said "How's the plot, Plottie?"
So when I was signing up for the site it seemed the obvious name...............
Plottie :)
(or Janet, as I really am)

[BAGGY]

I'll give you three guesses ...........
A gold star to the closest guess.

[wivvles]

I'll give you three guesses ...........
A gold star to the closest guess.

I suspect that you may be a regular at the Hawthorns... in which case you have my sympathy!!

[bear]

Like Paddington Bear years ago my favourite coat was a duffle coat. The duffle coat has long gone to the Oxfam shop but the name has stuck....In the real world I'm called Caroline.

[aquilegia]

Can you guess?

I took a huge leap of imagination and named myself after my favourite plant.

It's kind of like my real name, but much much nicer!

[busy_lizzie]

When I first started going on the internet, friends kept warning me,  never give your name out, or any details about yourself.  So paranoia set in and with each e-mail and password I had to set up I conjured up an appropriate name.  Busy lizzie just seemed appropriate, I have often grown them, they are cheerful and colourful and gardeners are always busy.  So hence the name.

My proper name is Jean, which I always think sounds like a 1940's land girl or someone who was a Wren in the Second World War.  I was named after my mother who was called Jane, but she thought I would get plain Jane, so she switched the letters round to Jean.  Think I would have preferred Jane which is now quite popular.  ;D busy_lizzie 

[BAGGY]

Wivvels - I don't understand the Hawthorns bit  :-\ but no star I'm afraid .

[Columbus]

Hi all,

Columbus = Malcolm

My real name is Malcolm which has a meaning something like, "follower of Saint Columbus"

I`ve been Columbus all over the internet for a very long time.

Some people used Col as a familiar name, so I also use that.

 :)