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[vetran]

Oddly there is a picture framers at the end of my road. I have never worked out how it makes any money. There is also a cobblers/key cutters on my road. Again I'm puzzled how it makes any money.

I guess these sort of shops are just fronts for money laundering.

probably the same way as the Guildford cobblers did, you could order something for the rave night (o get R-soled) in a little baggy as well as getting shoes re-soled.

[eek]

Oddly there is a picture framers at the end of my road. I have never worked out how it makes any money. There is also a cobblers/key cutters on my road. Again I'm puzzled how it makes any money.

I guess these sort of shops are just fronts for money laundering.

Not neccesarily - most of the picture framers round our neck of the woods do it to keep busy and get out of the house. The money is rather secondary.

Heck I may retire aged 60 to do something exactly like that. Radio on, people coming in to chat with occasional pictures to frame.

[NickFitz]

Oddly there is a picture framers at the end of my road. I have never worked out how it makes any money. There is also a cobblers/key cutters on my road. Again I'm puzzled how it makes any money.

I guess these sort of shops are just fronts for money laundering.

There's one in a prime site in the city centre - well, it's a gallery too. They used to have a café on the top floor where I often went for my lunch in the late 1980s, or hung out on Saturday afternoons (it was a rather scruffy place with a vaguely beatnik feel that hadn't been decorated since the 1960s), but they closed that around 1990 and expanded the gallery. Still there to this day, and apparently doing well.

The other one I'm aware of is on a mixed residential/light-industrial terraced street (I have my car tyres done at a place across the road from it) in an odd little no-man's-land between the poshest residential areas of the city and one of the poorer parts. That one is purely a "picture framing workshop", according to its signage. It's also been there since at least the 1980s, expanded its workshops into the adjacent building about twenty years ago, and shows every sign of being a thriving business.

Mind you, I vaguely remember a friend having something framed there maybe fifteen or so years ago, and when they told me how much it cost them I was stunned. So maybe it's just that proper hand-made picture frames are eye-wateringly expensive

[SueEllen]

Need to go to the post box.

If it's like my trip earlier I will get there and feel faint on the way back.

[SimonMac]

Things I've learnt today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

[vetran]

Things I've learnt today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

Brewming hell.....

[NickFitz]

Need to go to the post box.

If it's like my trip earlier I will get there and feel faint on the way back.

Promise yourself a nice cup of tea when you make it back

[barrydidit]

You mean to say that you don't reference ISO3103 compliance on your CV's?

[MrMarkyMark]

You mean to say that you don't reference ISO3103 compliance on your CV's?

Even my butler has it on his

[northernladuk]

Things I've learnt today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

I love the Controversy entry. I thought it would be a load of rants and arguments about tea.