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[stewpot]

Hi from a Manc (Swinton), living in South Cheshire, sometimes in Mexico.
1 lovely Mexican wife (had to marry her-or send her back, Haha!). 2 little ones, both home-ed, boy - 5, girl - 4. No pets, no vices.
Enjoy preparing for anything, I see a few faces I know from another forum, so i'm
just here to get more opinions, help, etc, got more time on my hands these days.
Retired a few years back, was a freelance illustrator in Manchester until '94, then fried chips for the next 11. My wife is an accountant, though she refuses to work as well! But we are enjoying our time together with the children, I take the view that we have enough for a very simple life, so that will do. We'll have fun 'till the money runs out, then the Mexican can go out to work, only seems fair!

Looking forward to learning from the old (and young) sages here.

stew

 

[korvin karbon]

hi

welcome to the forum.

you do realise thatw e will be expecting mexican recipes that are easily cooked out in the bush now LOL

 

[Wilderbeast]

hi there stew pot!!, how about veal taco's????
welcome to the forum!

 

[Shewie]

Hi Stew - welcome to the site

 

[scottishwolf]

Merry xmas and welcome to the site mate. Good folk on here, the sharing of knowledge is a wonderful thing

 

[SimonM]

Hello & welcome to the forum.

We are having a meet near your old stomping ground at the end of January (Worsley). Why not pop along and put names to faces?

Simon

 

[John Fenna]

Hello and welcome!

 

[stewpot]

Hello & welcome to the forum.

We are having a meet near your old stomping ground at the end of January (Worsley). Why not pop along and put names to faces?

Simon

Thanks for the invite Simon, I definitely would, but will be in Mexico at that time, back in early April. Is there one later?

 

[firebreather]

Welcome to the site mate, pull up a log by the fire and get a brew

Greg

 

[SimonM]

Thanks for the invite Simon, I definitely would, but will be in Mexico at that time, back in early April. Is there one later?

Probably - but no dates set yet! Enjoy Mexico!

Simon

 

[Wayland]

Welcome to the forum.

Your approach to life sounds like our own.

It doesn't take much to live a simple life and a simple life can be a rich one too.

 

[firecrest]

welcome to the forums. What did you used to illustrate? Ive done a degree in illustration, and dabbled in it, but never made a living out of it.

 

[stewpot]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome, looking forward to learning more about everyone.

Wayland.
love the website, looks like you know your stuff! I'm only learning. Love the campsites.

Firecrest.
I did whatever they wanted me to basically, a lot of plagerising of expensive London illustrators. Could be simple line drawings to airbrushed stuff, watercolour, pencil, whatever.
Subject could be anything. There was plenty of work & money in the 80's, but got difficult in the 90's, and everything was going over to Apple Mac, so it lost its appeal for me. And the only other thing I knew was fish & chips, (i'd grown up with it). So off I went.
Never made a fortune, but enjoyed the illustration work. Ended up working like a dog in my shop, made me ill, and I had to finish. My advice, keep it as a hobby. Its a hard world in advertising.

Stew