Schneeglöckchentage in Nettetal - spot the Forumists!

[Hans J]

Paddy ,

it was just joking !
I think the truth is for changing back from Cyclamen trochoptheranthum to Cyc. alpinum was for the same reason ( not serious )

[Hagen Engelmann]

Paddy, here is a source for PROPELLERHEADS: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/8w8c/

[Paddy Tobin]

Hagen,

I think we have many propellerheads on this forum!

Paddy

[gote]

Can we now safely assume that if we read something we do not understand like 'propellernose' or 'guck irgendwo' this is the name of a new Galanthus cultivar 
Göte 

[Hans J]

Hi all fotografing forumists from Oirlich ,

I miss any pics of the man who made this event  - where is "Aicha" ? ( also a member from here )

 

[Gerdk]

Sorry Hans, can't help. I met him but didn't make a pic.
He was shown in tv a few days before the galanthus event -
maybe only here in NRW (WDR 3).

Gerd

[Hans J]

Thanks Gerd ...maybe next year

[Lesley Cox]

Somewhere there's a poem, mentioned I think in Patricia Moyes' thriller, "Johnny Underground." If I remember rightly - which I may not - Johnny Head in Air referred to the pilots of the second World War while Johnny Underground was those who had already been shot down, and killed. Perhaps it's the poem by Heinrich Hoffmann, referred to above? Must look in the book but like many others, its stored in a box in Roger's shed.

Lesley is thinking of a poem by John Pudney used in the film "The way to the stars" and featured at the bottom of this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_to_the_Stars .  But John Pudney must surely have been familiar with the Hoffman poem in its English translation?

Sorry, this is rather off-topic but the freedom to wander a little off topic is one of the joys of this forum.   

Thanks so very much Alan, for the link and information. You are quite right. Now I read the little poem again it is familiar.

Looking at the cast of the film, which I never saw, what an amazing collection of actors. They don't make 'em like that nowadays. Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and others, all great actors and stalwarts of British stage and screen.

[Iris]

Thanks Gerd ...maybe next year

If you don't mind that being my first post, I may help out with a photo taken at the Galanthus Gala in Queenswood this year. Günter was helping at Rudi Bauers stand selling some snowdrops. He's on the left side.

Greetings from Iris
(who prefers Galanthus to Iris )

[Maggi Young]

Hello, Iris, how nice to have you join us here.
Such a shame that you prefer Galanthus to Iris.... after all, how many beautiful women are called Galanthus?? 

[Iris]

... after all, how many beautiful women are called Galanthus?? 

Miss Behaving?

Thanks for your welcome Maggi .

[Maggi Young]

Miss Behaving?

 

[Hans J]

.... after all, how many beautiful women are called Galanthus?? 

Maggi :

you are wrong -in Turkey is

Kardelen
 
( this means snowdrop or Galanthus ) a common name for women 

[Maggi Young]

Hans, you always have something new to teach me! I might have guessed you would know the name of beautiful Turkish girls!!     have made a new lesson .... there is one every day 

[Hans J]

Maggi   

I know also a other name of turkish girls :

Lale

this is the name for Tulipa 

I suppose Layla + Leilah is maybe the same name ...( Eric Clapton )