Sold my mail order company in UK, moved to France to run Gites [www.chatenet.co.uk] also write and run a number of web sites and renovate 2CV's. Anything really to earn a few bob.

What a lovely existence. I'm about to attend an interview for my dream job in a couple of weeks and I might be able to leave all this marketing b******s behind. I hate the corporate world.

Here's some stuff I've made at our annual trade exhibition.

wow! 3rd pic!!! what is that??????? looks fun

It's a massive bowl which is on springs and a bearing so it wobbles and spins round. probably quite dangerous really, but it's fun.

the camp we stayed at in NL had one..... hours of fun

In real life, I used to design and supervise the strengthening and repair of bridges, but I gave it up for music and the free electric band.

Not quite true, since plan B mostly seems to involve low value metal bashing...

ken.

Me too. I'm thinking a change of scenery might well be on the horizon..

Me too, and I can thoroughly recommend ditching the 9 to 5 lifestyle. The only thing is, I'll soon have to work out what to do next, as I finish uni in spring (it goes so fast).

I can only recommend it too getting out of the rat race. Now in rural Bretagne-France, small village, very calm here, lovely country side. Love my new life style away from the big smoke. Fiddling in my garage with 2cvs and selling some parts around the planet, is very relaxing. Down side is that it is very hard to break in to a new market where we are nearly unknown. We have no plans of being millionaires, decided not to and not interested in a big house with a mortgage etc. Just want to create a small husband/wife business with no debt and what ever money we can earn, save them and travel when we can mainly 2cv raiding. Without the internet this would simply not be possible and we would have disappeared in to the country side with the rest of the locales. Thanks Internet.