Best avatar competition

[Andy Hunt]

Vote here for your favourite forum member's avatar.

I vote for MacG's - because it gives me hope! The image of people going up an escalator to a fitness centre is just the most hilarious idea!

There is so much waste in our society, and so much we can do without . . .

[Gerontion]

It's a good one. On a similar theme, I always like this one (from someone on peakoil.com)

[Blue Peter]

It's a good one. On a similar theme, I always like this one (from someone on peakoil.com)

It looks a bit cross to me,


Peter.

[Gerontion]

Gawd. Second attempt:

[biffvernon]

The image of people going up an escalator to a fitness centre

Oh, so that's what it is. Thanks.

[Keela]

I just added an atavar last night, I'd wanted one of our pigs, but I couldn't make the image small enough. Hence the JR pup.

Edit: Hmmm and even it looks blurry.

[Keela]

Andy - I have to admit I like your atavar, especially since you added the x through the DON'T!

[Erik]

Oilslick gets my vote for best avatar in the "Thank God its only an avatar and not a full-blown high-res picture" category.

[Keela]

Okay - messing again and as work has better software I managed to resize this image of my daughter on her horse last year.... quite like this one. Quite carefree looking.

[RenewableCandy]

It has to be Cyberberg's "When in doubt...Brew Up"! Not only is it an eminently good piece of advice, but the sign itself also provides a reminder that we can (or at least, have once been known to) face down adversity.

[SunnyJim]

In a shameless effort to win the competition and win the affection of RC I have uploaded a new avatar....

[Keela]

Hmm - changed again.... now it's me in my greenhouse the first year it was put up....

[RenewableCandy]

In a shameless effort to win the competition and win the affection of RC I have uploaded a new avatar....

That's very nice of you but actually I really liked your "Resistance is Fertile" from way-back-when.

[Keela]

Mind you some atavars are confusing.

I mean there we have Renewable Candy with a sunny atavar, and Eternal Sunshine and Sunny Jim who don't.....

[SunnyJim]

In a shameless effort to win the competition and win the affection of RC I have uploaded a new avatar....

That's very nice of you but actually I really liked your "Resistance is Fertile" from way-back-when.

Yeah, I liked that one too.... I don't know why I got rid of it....

I think I was after something less confrontational at the time? Something more hopefull, hence the dove thing.

I think it was Patrick Whitefield who said "Permaculture is simply revolution dressed up as gardening..." Obviously a bit of a flipant comment, but in the context of the conversation at the time it made alot of sense. I mean self sufficiency is the ultimate revolution really isn't it? If we don't spend money, or earn it, then the goverment can't tax us, and loose power over us. We only really give goverment power by spending the pound. The more dependent we become on others to provide our necessesities in life for us (Supermarkets, heating oil and gas providers etc) the more we rely on the state owned Bank of England's currency. It is the use of this currency that we are taxed on (VAT) and by. It was this expression that gardening and degrees of self sufficiency are the ultimate form of revolution that the old avatar so brilliantly expressed.