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Old 30-01-2008, 01:24 PM
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I'm Pumpkin Becki because last year (my first with an allotment), I grew a pumpkin variety called 'Becky', but I've always spelt mine with an 'i'!

PS, I think this is a brilliant thread, I've always wondered how everyone arrived at their 'pen names'.
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Old 30-01-2008, 01:28 PM
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apperantly unpronounceable is a old celtic name and is related to a.n.other
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Old 30-01-2008, 01:35 PM
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apperantly unpronounceable is a old celtic name and is related to a.n.other
I don't think they're related to N. E. Juan from Spain though?
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Old 30-01-2008, 01:52 PM
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Becki,
Thank You (see Wellie bob head and curtsey), I find it's much nicer talking to people if you know a little bit about them, and this way, it's not delving too deep into their privacy?
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Old 30-01-2008, 01:56 PM
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I have been digging a plot in my garden so i can grow my own veggies, and thats how i got my name gardenplot
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Old 30-01-2008, 01:59 PM
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Becki,
Thank You (see Wellie bob head and curtsey), I find it's much nicer talking to people if you know a little bit about them, and this way, it's not delving too deep into their privacy?
It's a bit like the old adage - "always nice to put a face to the name". Kinda...

Agreed, another fine thread Wellie.
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Old 30-01-2008, 02:37 PM
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Well mine has derived from my surname over time...

Newcombe -> Newcomber -> Cucumber -> Cuke

So, it seemed an obvious forum name when the time came
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Old 30-01-2008, 03:00 PM
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When I bought a four-acre field my sister ,Jane ,reffered to me as "Mistress Fouracre". The Polly came from I know not where!
I quite like the name though and might change my own name to it!!
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Old 30-01-2008, 04:04 PM
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Bluemoon coz I'd been a reader of the mag from issue 1 and I really wanted to use this site, but I was also ever so slightly technophobic and thought I'd only be here once in a....... How many posts in 2 months is that?
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Old 30-01-2008, 04:58 PM
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mine is mine and his nicknames, yo an' bob.
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Old 30-01-2008, 05:08 PM
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It was my OH who originally joined and we thought we could share - after all, we'd never been on a forum before- and we'd never really be posting

well...it came to pass ..that we couldn't both use the same username and my OH just don't have the time like wot I do , so I pinched his name.
His signature as a teenager looked like Nicos and so the name sort of stuck, although that's not his name and I never call him that.
I do ask his advice as he's a keen gardener so we do tend to chat about the forum!
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Old 30-01-2008, 06:19 PM
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I grew some amazing tiny cucumbers - just four inches long - and they were really tasty and very cute. My boyfriend really made me laugh when he said they were actually cutecumbers... and I thought it was quite a good username.

I'm not really very cute in fact... more utility girl
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Old 30-01-2008, 06:35 PM
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Old 30-01-2008, 06:55 PM
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It was my nick name at the last place I worked - my surname is Srodzinsky
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Old 30-01-2008, 07:43 PM
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Oh dear, mine's completely boring. My Christian names are Valerie Margaret, and OH abbreviates them to valmarg.

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Old 30-01-2008, 08:28 PM
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Sewer Rat - cause that's what my job was when I joined the Vine - laying / repairing sewers and field drains, installing septic tanks - really glamorous job
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Old 30-01-2008, 08:29 PM
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Sewer Rat - cause that's what my job was when I joined the Vine - laying / repairing sewers and field drains, installing septic tanks - really glamorous job
Rat, I can't imagine why you would want to give that up to run your own veggie business
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Old 30-01-2008, 08:33 PM
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Rat, I can't imagine why you would want to give that up to run your own veggie business
Believe it or not, there are days when I could quite happily take a day off from the veggies and disappear down a drain for a change
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Would those days co-incide with wet windy freezing weather by any chance Rat?
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Would those days co-incide with wet windy freezing weather by any chance Rat?
Actually no, they tend to coincide with the third or fourth day of my handweeding onions or something similar
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Old 30-01-2008, 08:41 PM
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Hadn't thought of that, I used to hate 5 mins of onion weeding when I was a kid - I wonder if that's why this year will be my first serious try!

Oops, sorry, chatting on a non chatty thread - apologies folks.
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Old 30-01-2008, 08:58 PM
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I actually hate being called Shirl in 'real life' though.
*makes mental note...

I'm glad that I know now about Momol's name - that had puzzled me too.

Lack of imagination alert here, too, I'm afraid - Hill allotments plotholder...
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Old 30-01-2008, 09:03 PM
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Well i'm seasprout, the sprout bit is cos i occasionally read Robert Rankin books and there is occasionally a sprout mentioned, 'if you read them, then you may understand'

I wanted a non-generic, non-specific name, but now people think i'm a fella.

However i have no idea about why i use the sea bit..??!!

I do occasionally use 'other', poorer quality gardening forums, and use the prefix sea on other nicknames. But i didn't tell you that.
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