Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
Dublin Orchid Fayre April 10th and 11th 2010
A little something to be proud of, The National Botanic Gardens, my alma mater, was the first place in cultivation to germinate Orchids in the 1840's. Orchis is Greek for Testicle & the reason for many young men to giggle in biology class.
Just thought I'd share. I have a native Orchid, Dactylorhiza, not sure of the species, going free to someone if they want it, I'm in Glasnevin and collection is necessary. If planted in the ground it will spread through your Garden , saving seed is pointless as a special fungus is necessary to enable germination and won't work if spread in a Garden without it, it is a symbiotic relationship, ie it needs a relationship with the fungus to succeed.
Kev.
Oh yes.
The Greek meaning? I once spent half an hour on RTE radio one explaining that people who study orchids are not 'orchidologists'....but the presenter brought up the fact that I didn't define Orchids by the medical terminology used above (a la in Kevs post), so spend most of the show getting around how I had actually described the meaning of the word Orchid just before going on air. Talk about pushing the limits of radio politeness.
I also remember during a lecture an elderly lady asking where does the word come from....so I explain the removal of manhood etc etc thrust into the ocean etc etc and the formation of aphrodites (goddess of love) etc etc.
The lady's reply at the end was 'I wish I hadn't of asked'
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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