Thread: "My shed is so small..."

Originally Posted by ElizaLeahy

I can't believe it. I always thought this sort of thing was a joke.

I was sitting on the chair next to the table that takes up most of my shed (I mean most - like wall to wall) and I wanted the orange wax to polish something. I stood up - stepped out of the shed, turned around, stepped back in to look at the bookcase which had been behind me when I was facing the table.

Then I realised what I'd done.

My shed is so small that I have to step outside to turn around!

My shed is small and full so i fall in grab a tool as i am falling get up and fall out

Doctor says i am the fittest 85 year old guy he has ever seen 'What pills do u want?'

Chippy3

It is not the size of the shed, the expense of the lathe, or the brand name of the tools that count.

Eliza does wonderful work with what she has, and continues to improve.

Big sheds, fine lathes, good chucks, expensive chisels, all make it more convenient but do not necessarily produce better work.

Originally Posted by ElizaLeahy

My shed is so small that I have to step outside to turn around!

...at least you have a shed, just think of all the poor kids in this world that have to go to bed each night shedless!

Thanks all for a wonderful thread. Each time I return to it I have more chuckles, am thankful for such a spirit.

Good upon you, Chippy. Whatever the pills they are working well!

Originally Posted by eisbaer

i just got that 4 yorkshiremen thing from monty python in my head... The bit where they're comparing how poor the conditions were in their youth...

"shed? Bloody luxury... We were lucky to have a corridor in which to do woodturning!"

Corridor? That's a joke. My lathe is outside in a corner.

And I had to walk 20 miles to school, without shoes, in the snow (in Brisbane...)

wait wile i get my violin.

Originally Posted by ElizaLeahy

... I had to walk 20 miles to school, without shoes, in the snow (in Brisbane...)

You forgot to add, "uphill both ways!"

you were lucky to have shoes... We had to staple bits of leather to our feet, then walk 25 miles to work in a coal mine for tuppence a week... If we were lucky!

Originally Posted by eisbaer

you were lucky to have shoes... We had to staple bits of leather to our feet, then walk 25 miles to work in a coal mine for tuppence a week... If we were lucky!

Ah!! The days of Joh. I remember them well.

Originally Posted by eisbaer

you were lucky to have shoes... We had to staple bits of leather to our feet, then walk 25 miles to work in a coal mine for tuppence a week... If we were lucky!

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah. That's why I'm grumpy.

My shed is so small I cant quite do a Uturn in me ute... a 3 point turn works tho even in me 3t truck!

My heart bleeds for you Harry, must be the pits having such a small shed

and if you try telling the young people of today that, they won't believe you...

Originally Posted by eisbaer

and if you try telling the young people of today that, they won't believe you...

Ahm, age 26. Duh, you are the young people