Let's be Honest -can you even make money from woodworking?

[Logger]

I am self taught, working out of a garage having been doing joinery for a year. I am a picture framer as well so have worked with timber for years. I was doing some joinery for friends but decided to advertise my services doing joinery about this time last year. As with the post above, i am working 7 days a week and long hours but i am getting plenty of work and using up offcuts from jobs to make things to sell all the time whilst still doing some picture framing.

Money can be tight at times as often i am having to still buy new router cutters, jigs etc, but you need to have the atttitude that this hard graft and time from your family will be worth it. I am enjoying what i do and it is already working well for me aftrr only a year.

Getting back to topic, i am not a fan of plums, but used to go around to a friends house called Bernard who had loads of plum trees.

Nick

 

[lurker]

Why did your friends call their house Bernard

 

[Logger]

I am not sure, but that is as good as name as any

Then again, our house is genuinely called "Toad Hall" and i don't have any friends called badger.

 

[lurker]

I wanted to call our house porcherie but erindoors said no.

 

[AJB Temple]

You would not believe how many house names we discussed when we moved, as wifey rejected outright what our house had previously been called. It is worse than naming babies and that is bad enough. We almost called the house John.

 

[blackrodd]

I just love standing under our plum trees and getting stuck in on a sunny day.
But I absolutely dislike plums cooked as a desert, plum jam or plum pickle, chutney etc.
My mother made loads of plum jam, I hate the stuff!
When ;Er indoors wants to cook, she can make the most delicious food, cakes, pickles jam, etc.
but leave the plum out for me.
Rodders

 

[Phil Pascoe]

The name of our house is thirty seven.

 

[n0legs]

I have a pencil named Geoff.

 

[RobinBHM]

I used to have a forklift named sapphire

 

[Mark A]

I used to have a cat named Baby Craig / Craigy Babe.

 

[Logger]

Can we please get this thread back on topic!

So, what is the best restaurant you have been to?

 

[AJB Temple]

Now that is a very good question. As breakfast is obviosuly the best meal of the day, my fave restaurant is Joe's cafe. Oddly, it has not yet achieved international recognition. He might need a business plan.

 

[Zeddedhed]

AJB, you need to know that one of West Kent's best Cafs is on the Transfesa estate at Paddock Wood. I haven't been for about three or four months (too much 'Lard around the middle' according to the Head Dietician) but the last visit was truly memorable (as visits to transport Cafe's go).

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I had a Gloucester Old Spot sow called Rover.

 

[AJB Temple]

Thanks Zedd. I shall seek it out and see if it should be Michelin starred. It is weird really that I get to eat to for work in fancy restaurants, but you still can't really beat a classic fry up, with ketchup, runny eggs and toast. I am tempted to have one for lunch! Despite my wifely half making similar comments about me.....

 

[mind_the_goat]

I once had a fish called Eric, even had a license for it.

 

[AJB Temple]

Did Eric taste nice? Probably dipped in a bit of batter and popped in the deep fryer?

 

[timber]

Did Eric taste nice? Probably dipped in a bit of batter and popped in the deep fryer?

I had a wild boar once and he was called " Percy", and I made a living from wood working, I just happened to stop the trees from living
Timber

 

[dickm]

I once had a fish called Eric, even had a license for it.

Strange - we had an experiment involving tankfuls of carp many years ago, and all the carp were called Eric. Must be standard practice.

 

[NazNomad]

One of my Shetland ewes is called Fatsy Kensit.