user names and avatars
- mikeysaling
- Posts: 1557
- Joined: Mon 08 Mar, 2010 3:53 pm
- Location: braintree essex
- Organisation: sarah jane framing
- Interests: astronomy medals photography
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user names and avatars
I notice a great variety of usernames which must of course be unique - how did you arrive at yours and why did you choose your avatar - does it have a special meaning?
Mine is easy - I'm mikey and i live in a small village called saling (with no I) . The avatar represents the fact that i'm thin as a rake and spend more time than i should on my computer !
Mine is easy - I'm mikey and i live in a small village called saling (with no I) . The avatar represents the fact that i'm thin as a rake and spend more time than i should on my computer !
when all is said and done - there is more said than done.
- Jonny2morsos
- Posts: 2231
- Joined: Wed 12 Mar, 2008 10:28 pm
- Location: Lincs
- Organisation: Northborough Framing
- Interests: Fly Fishing, Photography and Real Ale.
- Location: Market Deeping
Re: user names and avatars
I think this one has come up before.
- mikeysaling
- Posts: 1557
- Joined: Mon 08 Mar, 2010 3:53 pm
- Location: braintree essex
- Organisation: sarah jane framing
- Interests: astronomy medals photography
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Oh dear - maybe it can be put down as a senior moment thread !! Mind you I do recall you selling 1 of your morso's so maybe J1M now ?
when all is said and done - there is more said than done.
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It's come up before but lots and lots of people have joined since then - so SPILL!
Me - worked as a warehouse operative for a time after leaving the army - I blew all the picking and error rate records away and they christened me 'Robo Packer'.
Me - worked as a warehouse operative for a time after leaving the army - I blew all the picking and error rate records away and they christened me 'Robo Packer'.
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- Posts: 482
- Joined: Fri 09 Mar, 2012 5:13 pm
- Location: Northampton UK
- Organisation: Turn Around Artwork
- Interests: Photography, Wood-turning, Wood Carving; Bench Joinery, Cycling:
Learning new framing techniques!
Precision engineering - Contact:
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All through my professional life I was known/referred to simply as Foreman (my surname) No-one ever called me Jack.
On the Stroke Unit when medical staff called me Jack, I took no notice. I wasn't being rude; I just never assumed that they were talking to me.
My brain was addled anyway
So they started calling me strokebloke.
I think it was a natural progression from "that bloke who doesn't respond when you speak to him."
It has stuck. Through rehab and even the annual stroke reviews.
It's also my username on ePz.
On the Stroke Unit when medical staff called me Jack, I took no notice. I wasn't being rude; I just never assumed that they were talking to me.
My brain was addled anyway
So they started calling me strokebloke.
I think it was a natural progression from "that bloke who doesn't respond when you speak to him."
It has stuck. Through rehab and even the annual stroke reviews.
It's also my username on ePz.
http://www.turnaroundartwork.co.uk
Good advice is best learned, rather than simply listened to.
Good advice is best learned, rather than simply listened to.
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- Posts: 286
- Joined: Sun 22 Jun, 2008 7:11 pm
- Location: Scotland
- Organisation: Dumfries & Galloway
- Interests: Photography, Colour Management, Sea Fishing
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Used to have a MotoGuzzi 1100 cc fuel injected Californian
- GeoSpectrum
- Posts: 2152
- Joined: Fri 01 Oct, 2010 11:49 am
- Location: Lincolnshire
- Organisation: Ashcraft Framing
- Interests: Family, x-country skiing, wine, art, Jazz
- Location: Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
- Contact:
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I own a small specialist consultancy (ie its just me) called GeoSpectrum Consulting and tend to use GeoSpectrum as my username on a number of forums. My avatar is whatever takes my fancy at the time.
Alan Huntley
Ashcraft Framing
Bespoke Easels and Self-assembly tray frames
http://www.ashcraftframing.co.uk
Ashcraft Framing
Bespoke Easels and Self-assembly tray frames
http://www.ashcraftframing.co.uk
- birdman
- Posts: 684
- Joined: Thu 07 Jun, 2007 2:41 pm
- Location: Tandragee, Co Armagh
- Organisation: Pelican Picture Framing
- Interests: Getting up close and personal with Val
- Location: N. Ireland
- Contact:
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Our business became Pelican after a visit to Oz. We came back with loadsa photos of the aforementioned bird and when trying to think of a name for the business they happened to be what we were looking at and therefore the bird became the business name and I the birdman!
The avatar has changed a few times but the current one is one of a pair of metal pelicans, made by somebody out of scrap pieces of metal/engines that we photographed in Brisbane I think? They were sitting on a post in the river.
The avatar has changed a few times but the current one is one of a pair of metal pelicans, made by somebody out of scrap pieces of metal/engines that we photographed in Brisbane I think? They were sitting on a post in the river.
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- Posts: 151
- Joined: Mon 25 Oct, 2010 10:44 am
- Location: Hertfordshire
- Organisation: Not yet.
- Interests: Off road motorcycling; Youth work; Watching sport - motocross; speedway and rugby mainly.
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Nickname from Army days....
I was training to be a mechanic and managed to strip the threads off some nuts and bolts through over tightening. - hence 'Gus the Gorilla''. Not got a suitable avatar yet, will have to give it some thought!
I was training to be a mechanic and managed to strip the threads off some nuts and bolts through over tightening. - hence 'Gus the Gorilla''. Not got a suitable avatar yet, will have to give it some thought!
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- Posts: 11008
- Joined: Sat 25 Mar, 2006 8:40 pm
- Location: Devon, U.K.
- Organisation: The Dartmoor Gallery
- Interests: Lost causes, saving and restoring old things, learning something every day
- Location: Glorious Devon
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It was one of my customers who said that I was "Not your average framer".
I am a very different sort of framer with a very different sort of business. None of this was planned, but just the way things happened.
I am a very different sort of framer with a very different sort of business. None of this was planned, but just the way things happened.
Mark Lacey
“Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Experience treacherous. Judgement difficult.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer
“Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Experience treacherous. Judgement difficult.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer
- David McCormack
- Posts: 1442
- Joined: Tue 02 Aug, 2011 10:14 am
- Location: South Lakes
- Organisation: Framing
- Interests: Cycling, walking, darkroom photography and laughing a lot!
- Location: Cumbria
- Contact:
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I use the swallow logo on all my stationery. I’m very lucky to be surrounded by nesting swallows both at work and at home. While I was setting up my workshop in the summer of 2010, I wandering into the meadow with my camera and did my best to keep up with them. The attached photo is a montage. Anyone spot the single swift amongst the swallows?
"You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything!"
Oliver Hardy.
https://www.instagram.com/davidaustinmccormack/
Oliver Hardy.
https://www.instagram.com/davidaustinmccormack/
- Vince442
- Posts: 150
- Joined: Mon 02 May, 2011 11:50 pm
- Location: Macclesfield
- Organisation: Alchemy Art & Framing Ltd
- Interests: Art, photography, architecture, bonsai, travelling
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Mine's just my name and random numbers. The avatar is the coat of arms for my surname
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- Posts: 885
- Joined: Sun 13 Jun, 2010 9:15 pm
- Location: Isle of Wight
- Organisation: Decormount
- Interests: Picture framing, mount-cutting, photoshop et al
- Location: Isle of Wight
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Throughout most of my life I have done most things myself, like bricklaying carpentry, roofing electrics, fitting out a narrowboat etc etc. I used to be known for my DIY skills and was often referred to as DIY. Some years ago I tried to set up an account at Amazon selling books and couldn't use my preferred user name so tried Mr DIY. It worked and stuck. Incidentally the numberplate came up at auction some weeks ago (MRD 1 Y) but they had set a stupid reserve so never sold.
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- Posts: 622
- Joined: Tue 04 Mar, 2008 11:05 pm
- Location: Brixworth
- Organisation: Retired Picture Framerand Printer
- Interests: mountain biking & drinking beer.... not necessarily in that order!
- Location: Northampton
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I started off printing and stretching canvas... I drink a lot of espresso hence my avatar.
Canvas, Acrylic, Photographic, Fine Art Printing & Framing
http://www.prophotosolutions.co.uk
http://www.prophotosolutions.co.uk
- Steve Goodall
- Posts: 803
- Joined: Thu 08 May, 2008 4:22 pm
- Location: Up North
- Organisation: Wessex Pictures Group
- Interests: Gothic Punk / Man City / Photography...
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I'm called Steve Goodall - how sad is that
But as a bit of a "rarity" on here - ie - a manufacturer - who is unafraid to get into the banter on here & generally have a laugh with my customers - rather than just "lurking" - it seemed only fair not to hide behind a "nickname".
Mind you - if you heard some of the nicknames I have at work - you would use your real name too...
KNOW ALL GOODALL being just one of the nicer ones
Don't you just love your workmates
But as a bit of a "rarity" on here - ie - a manufacturer - who is unafraid to get into the banter on here & generally have a laugh with my customers - rather than just "lurking" - it seemed only fair not to hide behind a "nickname".
Mind you - if you heard some of the nicknames I have at work - you would use your real name too...
KNOW ALL GOODALL being just one of the nicer ones
Don't you just love your workmates
Your too late I'm afraid - I retired in April 2024
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If you go left to right/top to bottom, I'm going for No 11.David McCormack wrote: Anyone spot the single swift amongst the swallows?
- David McCormack
- Posts: 1442
- Joined: Tue 02 Aug, 2011 10:14 am
- Location: South Lakes
- Organisation: Framing
- Interests: Cycling, walking, darkroom photography and laughing a lot!
- Location: Cumbria
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Yep, No 11 is a swift, but having looked again myself, particularly at the tail feathers, I think there are some others there too?
"You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything!"
Oliver Hardy.
https://www.instagram.com/davidaustinmccormack/
Oliver Hardy.
https://www.instagram.com/davidaustinmccormack/
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Maybe, but it's the male swallow with the long streamers, those others you've circled could be female swallows.
The fork is less pronounced on the swift, which is why I went for No 11
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdgui ... ation.aspx
The fork is less pronounced on the swift, which is why I went for No 11
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdgui ... ation.aspx
- Jonny2morsos
- Posts: 2231
- Joined: Wed 12 Mar, 2008 10:28 pm
- Location: Lincs
- Organisation: Northborough Framing
- Interests: Fly Fishing, Photography and Real Ale.
- Location: Market Deeping
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Don't know how it is for the rest of the country but here (Cambs/Lincs border) there are hardly any summer migrants yet. I can count on one hand the number of house martins spotted and the only swallows I have seen so far have been over the local rivers and gravel pits. Not a swift at all yet and not heard a cuckoo.
We do however have a pair of short eared owls locally and I managed this shot last week.
We do however have a pair of short eared owls locally and I managed this shot last week.