Shirl cos it is my name (though I can't abide having my name shortened in real life) and 'the girl' coz Shirley can be a blokes name or a surname.

Madmax got his nickname years ago when some of his workmates decided that only Madmax drove a noisy black beast of a car.... His name is not Max but he is way sexier (to me anyhoo) than Mel Gibson

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Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

Oh dear... Named after the rabbit (honest). I've used the same name for lots of other forums but regretting it now!

Nice avatar, Floozy!

Mine is because when I joined, I was thinking about seeking help for my obsession with the slimy critters. I lob them as far as my girlie arms can throw, across the crop field behind my house (where they all came from in the first place, no doubt!). However, I've Nemaslugged now, so might change it, depending on the outcome of that!

i occassionally wish i'd been a bit more inspired when i chose mine.. was too concerned about getting advice on dealling with the scary brambles at the time to think of a cool nickname so it's just my name

Botty-boos - bin prounouncing you wrongly all this time. Soz Sarz!

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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. Mrs C W Earle

vegheaven.blogspot.com updated May 12th 2008

Yip, me too.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - UPDATED - 8th May

http://www.sloganizer.net/en/style2,HeyWayne.png

Well I'm flummery 'cos it's a wobbly puddin' - it also means claptrap or flim-flam so you may now choose to ignore all my advice!

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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. Mrs C W Earle

vegheaven.blogspot.com updated May 12th 2008

I've been Arachne since I first wandered on the net as a wee sprout and had to choose a nickname for something. I'd been Arachne at a themed masquerade ball earlier that year, and have always liked spiders, so it stuck.

These days, I know so many people from t'internet that in fleshspace I'm generally called Ara. I don't mind a bit

We recently had a baby daughter and named her Jessica. As well as being 2 completely made up words "cas d'isjased" is an anagram of "jessica's dad", which is me! I think I may have too much time on my hands.

Hi DDL, found the older thread and have merged yours in so we can keep adding to the previous list

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Shortie

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

Hahahahaha No worries, it was just in your head & I didn't hear you

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Sarah

http://wixypixies.blogspot.com/

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

Even though Gazza sounds like a mans name/nickname Im a girl - well middleaged woman. My kids called me Gazza [after the footballer who used to sob] when they were still at home cos anything would set me off crying. Happy things, sad things, animal things, in fact most things!

I was lttle weed when I joined but lost my self somehow!!! So renamed and rejoined as mrsdog. I had a rescue dog who everyone called mrs hence the mrsdog. Plus I am rarely seen without my dogs. Littleweed was better though because from my little weeds grew huge b's!!!! I love my forums they keep me smiling.

dinky_doo was my mums name for me when i was a nipper

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about 15 years ago i was introduced to my friend's brothers as Sara (my real name) then the next time i saw them one thought i was called sandra and another thought lucy. They put them together and i became zanussi- it was the least embarrassing nick name i've had although i never get called it anymore except on forums, etc...
xx

I chose my name as it started from my days playing snooker.. Hurricane Higgins, Whirlwind White...and so i used Syanide S... (my surname begins with an S).

I didn't use my real first name, which is Kam, as I was (and always am) sceptical when I register on websites. All good now, but it's weird signing off as syanide instead of kam!

mine started when i took up gardening, my hubby who dont like gardening or much else i have an interest in, kept calling me percy thrower or charlie dimock so when thinking of a screen name percy charlie was born. dont know if appropraite for a female but i quite like it at the moment. also being 27 i dont look like either of them good job as percy is probably dead do share some similarities with charlie though, used to have brown hair with a natural golden reddy colour before i dyed it and is slightly wavy.

I'm a scientist and have worked with viruses for a long time. Capsid is the inside bit of some viruses I got to know.

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Mark

http://vegetablekingdom-capsid.blogspot.com/

My go!!

My outside space is a pretty special one, (almost) in the shadows of the first industrial suspension bridge, Menai Bridge, engineered by Telford in 1815. It's an incredibly enduring and beautiful structure, designed for stage coaches, but now supporting a myriad of vehicles, structurally unchanged for 200 years.

I'm a coastal oceanographer, and also love the water that runs underneath it. My MSc project was a numerical model of this baffling stretch of water, the Menai Strait. The currents get up to 2m/s, incredible movement for the sea.

So, to get back to the point (I ramble, apologies), menai_terrace....I'm fortunate to live a fishing rod's throw away from the water, on a gorgeous sunny raised terrace. I reckon I've the most fortunate gardening view of all.....what do you guys think?