Introduce yourself to the community

[Jason]

Welcome to your Workshop. It is great to have you as a member of the community. We encourage you to say hello and introduce yourself.

Please reply to this post and tell us a bit about yourself. Whatever information you feel comfortable sharing is fine.

You might like to tell us about your current D.I.Y. and garden projects, your work, your passions, your hobbies, your dreams, what you struggle with, what you hope to learn from this community, and/or your favourite ice cream flavour.

And for something truly revealing about yourself - tell us what you call a barbecued sausage served on a single piece of bread.

We look forward to your post and getting to know you. Thanks for joining the discussion.

Jason

Community Manager

[Trying]

Sorry Andy_Mann - I guess not.

[She_Skills]

Hi Frances.  My husband and I run women's workshops in Brisbane in basic power tool and timber construction and creating with pallets, plus we've got quite a few others planned.  Let me know if you are interested and I can send you some info.  It's all about building confidence.  Meg

[Fran]

Cute!

[Elly]

My name is Elly, and Robbert and I moved into a 70s house on the outskirts of the urban fringe18 months ago. We have heavy clay soil so gardening is hard work, but we persevere. The house had floor-to-ceiling 2-pane windows up until last week. Now all the bottom panes are plastered over with yellow bats sandwiched into the space. The outsides will be covered with an inner layer of carpet underlay and a weather wall of corrugated metal sheeting, to match the gates and other corrugated areas around the building. It is our way of boosting the insulation. The next step is pelmets and heavy curtains to keep in the warmth at night. Robbert does the diy stuff and I do the painting and sewing etc. We both garden and had great success with egg plants last summer. The broad beans are coming along well now. Our no-dig veggie patch is just super. We couldn't have dug into all that clay in a month of Sundays!

I look forward to sharing ideas with folks who love to do it themselves. 

Cheers, Elly

[Trying]

Hi@Elly and welcome to Workshop. Here you will find, as I did, wonderful friendly people who are only too happy to share their wealth of knowledge and experience. We all want to improve the lives of our families and ourselves, and DIY is a great way to do it. Hope you have fun sharing. Cheers.

[Jason]

Welcome to the Workshop community @Elly. Many thanks for signing up and introducing yourself. It's great to have you join us.

It sounds like you've been very busy and have made a great start on transforming your new home. I look forward to reading a lot more about your projects and plans. 

You might like to add to this discussion in which Workshop members have been sharing their vegie garden progress over recent cooler months - Autumn vegetable updates please.

Jason

[John1]

I have never introduced myself before. My name is John and I am happily married to  Pam with two grown up daughters who I love very much. I live in Redland Bay Queensland just across from the islands the best known being North Stradbroke. I however was born in Melbourne. Proud to be of convict [blood] heritage. I was a Composite Tradesmen [Fibreglass] up until I had an argument between a forklift and a waterfeature mold/plug which wanted to go their separate ways with me in the middle one went one way and the other went in the opposite direction with me staying put. I was lucky that the molds supporting frame was made out of round gal pipe if it was square I would have lost both arms. 

I amassed allot of tools as a contractor some as old as 40 years and now they come in handy. I have no regrets as I was apart of such a great industry seeing as well as creating new ways of construction. My main job was trouble shooting.

Anyway that's me. 

Jason its a Sanga[sandwich] 

[Baretta11]

Hi Elly & Robbert,

Welcome!!

Boy you really are going forward in leaps and bounds trying to make this home more cosy, very radical covering up the bottom section of your floor to ceiling windows but I hope it works out for you both.

What urban outskirts are you referring to by the way??

Not sure if I could say we are like minded in the sort of home you have and the one we are building, as we do have almost floor to ceiling windows, about 300mm off the floor, anyway, we are building our home entirely from the foundations up and very much into doing everything ourselves, or at least doing everything we are permitted to do, so in this sense, we are perhaps like minded.

Good luck with all your reno's

Cheers,

Barbara

[Jason]

Thanks for formally introducing yourself @John1. It's great to have you as a member of the Workshop community. I'm sure with your skills and experience you can provide assistance to many community members. 

Jason

[John1]

A sanga in Aussie slang can mean either a sausage or a sandwich. So Sanga it is.