A change of user name

Congratulations, Hywel, ow did you do that? I see that all your posts as 'Blodyn' have disappeared.

I deleted lots of them but many photos are still there.
They are on Blodyn's page.

~well done Hywel ~ I am glad that you are now yourself!

It feel great Arlene :o)
Thank you

Hello Hywel and welcome to Goy !!! LOL
LOVELY to see you and beautiful Blodyn :-)))))

Its nice to put a face to a name!!

Nice to meet you Hywel, its a lovely photo of you and Blodyn love your new aveator too pretty. Love your new plant its great, could see some lovely pot vases comming out of that shape would look wonderful .

Nice to meet you Hywel , give Blodyn a cuddle for me.:o)))

Poor Blodyn - sidelined! Keep up the good work under your new persona Hywel.

Blodyn is a really beautiful cat and judging by the way she`s looking down I think she`s shy...lol! I`ve not seen a plant like that before, I hope you can get some inspiration from it.

Sandra :o)

Lol! I got totally confused there! (I know, Hywel, it doesn't take much!)
Good to see you again!! :~))

Hi Hywell I'm interested that you do pottery any pics? and how does the plant help?

Hello Hywel.
So did you have to re-join and is your Blodyn account still running, suppose I should have checked before asking. You know I have the same problem with my user name - if only I'd given it more thought when I joined.
Love the Sarracenia btw.

Hi Hywel. Nice to see you under your true name. Love the photo of you and Blodyn. Your Pitcher plant is gorgeous.

Neat bit of sidestepping there, Hywel! There wasn't much option, I know, I like the redirect from Blodyn's page, so I'm guessing you must have enlisted again as Hywel. Mystified as to how though, I thought when you logged on to GoY it recognised your email address and your user name automatically.

Hmmmm...I was wondering that too......anyway. good to put a face to a name :))

Hello Hywel :))
That's a lovely pic of you and Blodyn...now I know who's who, lol xx

Hi Hywell Welcome to GOY LOL....

Watch out that plant doesn't get you hywel, it looks a bit like a triffid. What a splendid specimen. What will it feed on? Nice view through your window by the way.

Is this the Sarracenia that eats vine weavils, as someone was talking about recently? We've not managed to find one (a dozen?) yet.

On the label it was just called 'insect eating plant'. It said it feeds on flies it catches. No mention of vine weevils.

nice to meet you hywell and blodyn

Hello Hywel, I was nearly confused, but it is you! :o)

Hello Hywel..
WELCOME TO GOY..
We are a friendly group of people...
I'm sure you'll love it here. ;o) xxx

Thank you TT. I'm sure I'll enjoy GoY :o)
Thank you Joanella
Sorry it's a bit confusing Anne. Glad you were able to work it out.

I've missed a few so thank you everyone.

lovely fuchsia avitar Hywel and lovely to put a face to the name. welcome in your own right. :o)

Nice to meet you face-to-face ... so to speak. Love your new avatar.

Well done, my friend - so glad it all worked in the end! :-)))

So good to have you back.

None of your pictures or avatar have loaded for me, but no matter! I guess I have to re-add you as a favourite under your new account. My question has always been do I say "Howell" as I hear Hywel in my mind, or something altogether different in Welsh, no respector of spelling, like Ivan?! A rose by any other name smells just as sweet!

Thank you everyone. It feels more comfortable with my own name.

Orgratis it is pronounced "Howell". Ivan is "eevan" ( not eye van )
My old page with the name 'Blodyn' still exisis but you will not see it under my new name. If you click on my old avatar you'll see it. If you want to put me as a favourite you have to add the new avatar. I have Blodyn as a favourite on the Hywel page , and I have Hywel as a favourite on the Blodyn page lol :o)

Welcome Hywel , it's nice to have you back where you belong ... :o)

Lovely to have you back Hywel and to 'see' you too.
It's not like Blodyn to be camera shy!

Hi it's nice to put a face to the name. I know when I signed on I posted the first user name that came to my head. I'll tell my friend about you plant he was talking about insect eaters the oher day.

She doesn't like to be lifted up Lily.

Thank you Amy :o)

And Gardengirl :o)
I put 'Blodyn' because I thought it was only a security word I needed.

Yet another similarity with Daisy Hywel, maybe they ARE related after all. lol

I know the place I got Blodyn from said they didn't have room so they sent some cats to 'South of England' - that's what they said, so it is possible .

Hi, HOwel! I always thought of you as "Hiwell"! It'll take some time for the pronunciation to sink in!

I love the Fuchsia you've chosen for you avatar picture! I've added you to my Favourites once again. I've also changed my avatar photo - for a picture of ... my balcony!!! So many GoYers have changed theirs lately I thought I would jump on the bandwagon! LOL!

I can't seen the photo of you & Blodyn up above. :-(

Lovely Pitcher plants you have there BTW! My daughter gave me a Venus Fly Trap for my birthday a few years ago but, unfortunately, it got a dowsing in cologne water! She had put the bottle in the same bag as the plant & it had come unscrewed! :-( Needless to say the poor plant died after a few weeks!

So about those "pottery things", Hywel...? Are we going to get a glimpse now that the flowers are fading?!

I'll be making pottery things in the new year. I have to sort my shed out first.
When my mother came here it took all my time to care for her - no time for pottery. Now she has died I have more time, but my shed is in a mess. I hope to sort it out by the new year.

I wonder why you can't see the photo David. There's another one on my photo page.
Pitty about your venus fly trap.

Sounds very much like they did come from the same rescue centre then Hywell. Does Blodyn like her tummy touched? Daisy's is most definitely out of bounds!
I've got wrong pronunciation too then, I always think of you as Hewell - oh well, I'll try and think different then! lol

I can see your photo now! No idea why I couldn't see it before! Anyway I discovered your photo & left a comment.

Hi Hywel - glad to see you are not a split personality any more lol

Like your Sarracenia....it looks like the one I've got which is S. stevensii. They are fun to grow!

Its nice to put a face to a name............is your new plant a fly catcher......

Hi Hywel. It's nice to put a face to a name though in the short time I've been a member I kind of got used to Blodyn so will miss her avatar popping up :~(
But you are both on my favourites now

Thank you all.
Yes Holly it catches flies. On the label it said not to feed it. It does that it's self lol.

Just realised why I wasn't seeing your blogs/photos as they appeared. Now I have made you a 'favourite' it works very well :)
Welcome to GoY!

Hi Hywell! Nice to see you! We've just had our internet re-connected after several days without it and I was surprised but delighted to see your new avatar. Will you be letting us see some of your pottery?

Thank you Gee :o)

Hi Nariz, I'm glad you've been re-connected now.
When I've made some pots I'll show them , but it won't be till the new year. I have to sort the shed out first. It's in a mess because when my mother was ill I didn't have time, and I dumped lots of things in there. I hope to get down to it soon :o)

Good to see you, Blodyn and a healthy Sarracenia too!

Hi Hywel,
Good to see your new avatar - what a beautiful Fuchsia! Hope Blodyn is well, am going to add you to my favourites again.
Chris xx

Hi I'm so sorry but for some reason i thought you [Blodyn] was a women!!!!.Now i no better,...I wonder how many others i have gotten wrong ?Just in case anyone is wondering what [Swanky] is i'm a women.Nice to see you to see you NICE :o)))

lol - You're not the first to make that mistake. I have also got people wrong. Well there's no way of telling is there.
I hope my photo didn't give you too much of a shock :o))

NO you have a look of Paul O'Gradey[the T V presenter] about you .That's a complement by the way lol :o))

Oh dear - - lol !
Well thanks for the compliment :o)

Good to see you and your new friend Sarracenia, I am growing these plants just taken them in for the winter, have been outside all summer.

Hi Hywel, we have one just like this. I've never owned one before and am a little nervous about killing it (speshully as it's really my son's not mine). Are there any absolute don'ts, do you think?
On a different matter entirely, who knitted your excellent waistcoat? I like it.

I don't know about the Sarracenia. I've never grown one before, and I only bought it a few weeks ago .
lol - my waistcoat.:o) I was going to take it off but I forgot.
I'm glad you like it.
A few years ago my mam was going to knit one for me, but she had become unable to do it, so she asked Edna the Woollshop to knit one instead. It doesn't have many buttons left on it lol

"Edna the Woolshop" that is so Welsh - I wish I could hear you speak, Hywel, the Welsh accent is top of my favourites list, I think it's great. I had a Welsh neighbour years ago, lovely lady, helped me enormously at a difficult time in my life, but she moved back to Wales - I've had a fondness for the Welsh ever since! (had a Welsh grandmother too..)

Your Sarracenia likes to sit in a container of water all the time, as he's a bog plant. He only likes rain water, as tap water contains minerals that will not be good for him. You don't need to feed him at all. He needs to be able to get cold enough to go dormant over the winter - all those pitchurs should go brown and dry and can be cut off when they start to look unsightly. But don't let him get too cold. Mine will be overwintering in my cold greenhouse, which worked fine last winter.

I have a slight Welsh accent - I can't tell myself, but you'd be amazed at how often I get asked if I'm Welsh when I'm away from home!

pity there's no audio on here...

You should hear my brother Bamboo. Funniest accent you've ever heard. Black Country with a Welsh lilt would you believe! I've held on to mine in Norfolk for over 30 years, so I accuse him of having no willpower.

I don't like all regional accents - I hesitate to mention this, cos I'm probably gonna be shot down in flames, but my nephew grew up in Wigan - what an ugly accent that is. Alright, alright, you Wiganites, I'll get my coat...

LOL
I'm keeping quiet.

(pardon?!)

And I'm definitely saying nowt !! lol ;~)))

Roight, Sue.

I hate a posh accent - posh English or posh Welsh - can't stand them lol, but I like the regional ones
I have an upper Swansea Valley accent

I've no idea what posh welsh sounds like, Hywel! And I don't like my accent much - saff eas lunnon, as it is...

There are lots of different Welsh accents, both when we speak English and when we speak Welsh. People talk about a "Welsh" accent as if all Welsh people had the same one, but there are different accents in different regions the same as in England.
I don't think you'd recognise a posh Welsh accent unless you understood the language.
Why don't you like your accent ?

I only don't like it when I hear myself on tape or something - sooo cockney, I sound like some sort of caricature off Eastenders. Don't get me wrong, I do pronounce the d in London, and the tts in butter and water, but there's such a twang - my in laws were quite posh, and when I first met their friends, they asked me which part of Australia I came from!

Like I said I don't think much of 'posh' people nor their accents. They seem to look down their noses at you, and their accents sound unnatural.
My dad has a cousin who's wife is from London. I love listening to her talking. I bet your accent is fine also.

Well maybe, but not to my ears - its as bad as Wigan! Although I had a friend from Hull, and her accent wasn't ugly - northern, but not ugly. No idea where Hull is in relation to Wigan, though. When I was in America years ago, we went to New York - the Bronx, and everywhere I went, American people kept asking me to "say something" cos they loved the accent, so different folks, different strokes, I guess.

Hywel, glad to know you. Beautiful plant and cat!

Thank you hmhb:o)

Hull and Wigan are on opposite sides of the country. Hull on the east coast, Wigan near the west coast. I don't know how far though.

ah, thanks for that Hywel, that could well explain the slight difference in accent then.

Sid is spot on about the Sarracenia,I keep mine outside for the winter and at Kew there are some outside and others kept in the cool carnivorous section. they are lovely plants and the flowers are amazing.

Thank you. I'll put it outside then. At the moment it's on the kitchen windowsill.