By observation I would say that a feature of this forum is that the in-figting begins when there has been a dearth of news.

This dismal group behaviour usually preceeds news by about a week. On the basis of the current tetchiness on the forum I think its a fairly safe prediction to say that news is on the way.

Perhaps we should change our avatars back to the dog theme that usually invokes some happyiness in the discussions. I find it interesting that so many avatars changed over the recent weeks. Why?