Flowering Now - April 2009

[Lampwick]

Should this be on the 'Puzzles' page?  Who is Lampwick?  We know they are male and from Staffordshire, an excellent photographer, a terrific gardener and a web site guru.  Answers please - Diane, surely you know?

Hi Cliff,
My name is John Husbands and I have been growing alpine plants for very many years. I used to regularly attend the Birmingham AGS group meetings, but haven’t been now for a few years. I am retired and have a great many interests and not enough hours in the day or days in the week to do all that I would like to do!

I have wrote a number of articles for the AGS bulletin, (I love writing) so you may see my name crop up there a few times.

My apologies for posting my irrelevant jottings here, (I couldn’t find the 'Puzzles' page)!
But to make this post valid, here is my today’s plant photo.

Erythronium ‘Pagoda’
 

[chasw]

Took this yesterday of the Sanguinaria growing amongst the Frits

[ranunculus]

Hi John,
Many thanks for 'declaring' yourself on this splendid forum - it has removed the mystery but increased the familiarity for many around the globe.  Your name is very familiar to me from your excellent contributions to AGS Bulletins.  Needless to say I am very impressed with your web site - no wonder you struggle to find enough time for all of life's other pleasures!

Kind regards from East Lancashire

... And I will call Diane off the hunt now!   

[David Nicholson]

Glad to see you have decided to "come out" John.

[Maggi Young]

Hello, John..... I much prefer to call you by your name than the pseudonym
It was giving us a good puzzle, though!!



.......and I could never picture "Lampwick"  as a gardener, somehow  !!

[Diane Clement]

... And I will call Diane off the hunt now!    

Thank you Cliff, I couldn't sort the puzzle. And welcome to John, who I do remember from the Birmingham group.  The real puzzle, is the Lampwick connection - is it the dog?  or the name of a place? 

[Maggi Young]

... And I will call Diane off the hunt now!    

Thank you Cliff, I couldn't sort the puzzle. And welcome to John, who I do remember from the Birmingham group.  The real puzzle, is the Lampwick connection - is it the dog?  or the name of a place? 

Aha, Diane has no television ..........that's the answer to this puzzle, Diane 

[Diane Clement]

Aha, Diane has no television ..........that's the answer to this puzzle, Diane     

Aha, no ... but I have a search engine   
and I can find Dick Emery and Pinocchio connections and some more obscure 
so I'm still none the wiser

[ranunculus]

Aha ... I have TWO televisions and a thing called Sky (heaven's above), but I'm none the wiser either?  Is that how your appliances are powered up in Aberdeen ... by lampwick?   

[ranunculus]

By Googling; Lampwick I have discovered a group called 'The Lampwick Continuum' who describe themselves thus:-

We are an iconoclastic group of eclectic, rugged individualists who periodically get together for no other reason than to enjoy each others company. We range from the ultra technical to the tremendously fanciful, and cover all points in between.

Sounds like the Pudsey Pigs to me!   

[ranunculus]

For newcomers to this wonderful forum, for very forgetful old timers and for anyone who couldn't believe it the first time - you will NEED to know the inside story on the Pudsey Pigs?

Please follow this link to the appropriate pages of the old forum where everything is explained.  You will need to scroll down the page (past some VERY pretty pictures) to images of 'people in a pub' - there the story will unfold before your very eyes ... you have been warned!

http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/141/14820.html#POST8181

[Maggi Young]

Well, we must await "Lampwick" John's own reasons for his pen-name but I make the Dick Emery connection when I see the name!
Old soldier James Maynard Kitchener Lampwick was the comedian Dick emery's favourite character. He's the old boy withthe icecream in this clip....

[Lampwick]

Lampwick is a character in Walt Disney’s 1940’s film “Pinocchio” – a disruptive and mischievous boy who is difficult to control and get through too; or so I was incessantly told by one of my teachers at pre-teen school.
She used to continually call me Lampwick, as I was deemed a troublemaker and played truant quite a lot and concocted fanciful excuses as to why I couldn’t make school. This quickly caught on with the other children. I got used to this nickname, and indeed got to like and prefer it to my proper name, as it distinguished me from the many other Johns. I started using this pseudonym some years ago when I joined a few notorious chat forums – I’ve stuck with it; but I don’t really know why!

I hasten to add (for the benefit of the moderators) that my disruptive and troublesome ways have somewhat subdued in my advancing years, although according to my wife I’m well into my second childhood!

Oops!....Am I now banned? 
 

[ranunculus]

Some of us are well into our sixth childhoods, John!!!

[Diane Clement]

Thanks for the explanation John (Lampwick)
and thanks to Maggi for the clip - they don't make them like that nowadays (do they  )