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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 !

I think this one has come up before.

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 ?

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'.

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.

Used to have a MotoGuzzi 1100 cc fuel injected Californian

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.

mine is just my initials twice

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.

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!

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 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?

Mine's just my name and random numbers. The avatar is the coat of arms for my surname

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.

I started off printing and stretching canvas... I drink a lot of espresso hence my avatar.

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

David McCormack wrote: Anyone spot the single swift amongst the swallows?

If you go left to right/top to bottom, I'm going for No 11.

Yep, No 11 is a swift, but having looked again myself, particularly at the tail feathers, I think there are some others there too?

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

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.