Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

Couple on Channel More 4 (Freeview 14), Grand Designs - buying a lifeboat station in Tenby. There's no road access and it's the hut they launch RNLI boats from.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

lir: how much time would it take? Would delivery commitments be a problem?

Wouldn't take me much extra time. Would take money. Don't have money, and in our position atm spend to acculmulate possibly is a risky strategy.

There would be no quantity target, they are implying. There is a certainly a point at which sending up eggs would not be viable cost wise, let alone commitment wise......that is the number between more than dh could carry on monday nd too few to make delivery non economical. We could be at that point very quickly but expensively

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, I am not a risk taker .... and my feeling/response would be to get them all excited that the offer's good, but that you're not yet in a position to work with them. Do you think it's a contact you could keep warm for a year?

Have you done the figures?

How much is in eggs? I know they're quite cheap, say £1 for 6 organic/hand reared style ... seen on hand-written bits of wood along the roads here. So is there money in it starting from the size you are?

I am pretty certain i could keep them warm for a while. Probably a year. Thats the best plan. Sleep on it for february, think, aput building numbers up again here and seeing how things lo at the end of summer.

I have not done figure properly. Working with optinistic guesstimates and pessimistic ones on back of envelope. Actually, not back of envelope, back of accountants rural update magazine. Aptly.
There is no dubt though, no money in it atm in its own right. I can't not think where it could go if i were in a different place. Chutney, jam, nneighbours milk and cream, cakes, recipe book.........:D:D

Brand.....hmm...nice peoe eggs would be nice. My firstthoguht was the other thread davesnave and i frequent.....we are all smallholders or aspirant smallholders.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Business minded nice people, i need your input!

I was apporached today by a london retailer...nice ut not a wow moment like fc's, who want to sell my eggs. Purebreds and lir own hybrids.

Now, this avtually would cost me a bit. For a star, depressingly enough, i would have to buy in some stock. I am not getting good eggs rates since the bad weather and the ferals started pinching them, and i bred no females last year!

Secondly, there would be additional outlay, of vaccinating my eggs (gate sale eggs don't need salmonella vaccines, but quite fairly any other sale or usuage do) and buying stanps, and of course i would have to sort out egg delivery.....

It seems silly to not snatch an opportunity to retail, and start a small brand, though have to say mass egg farming is not in my long term plan the old try anything once spirit is already cross for not optimising a simialr but different op when offered eighteen months ago.

It would cost me atm to buy stock to lay eggs......i can't decide what to do....

i can't help with any of that - but i am curious - what's the difference between egg your own chickens lay and one you can get in waitrose? is the taste noticeably different? i don't think i've ever had an egg that didn't come from the supermarket, expect at my parents i think they get them from a farm shop but taste the same to me. same with battery vs. free range in the supermarket, i don't think i could tell the difference in a blind taste test.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Couple on Channel More 4 (Freeview 14), Grand Designs - buying a lifeboat station in Tenby. There's no road access and it's the hut they launch RNLI boats from.

Well worth watching, that one. Stunning result!

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I am pretty certain i could keep them warm for a while. Probably a year. Thats the best plan. Sleep on it for february, think, aput building numbers up again here and seeing how things lo at the end of summer.

I have not done figure properly. Working with optinistic guesstimates and pessimistic ones on back of envelope. Actually, not back of envelope, back of accountants rural update magazine. Aptly.
There is no dubt though, no money in it atm in its own right. I can't not think where it could go if i were in a different place. Chutney, jam, nneighbours milk and cream, cakes, recipe book.........:D:D

Brand.....hmm...nice peoe eggs would be nice. My firstthoguht was the other thread davesnave and i frequent.....we are all smallholders or aspirant smallholders.

Is there anywhere more local that you could take the enterprise? Do the London people have a wider network anywhere nearer? The cost of getting eggs to London would be the most prohibitive thing to start with, I should think.

Both threads would make lovely brand names.

vivatifosi

Doozergirl wrote: »

Edit: I thought the Time Traveller's Wife was a lovely film. I thought when I read it that it would become a film. I didn't watch it when it came out, in case it ruined it, but it's been long enough for the story to be fresh again for me. Ger book "the girls" was thoroughly enjoyable read as well. I shall use Viva's link to see if she's written more.

There may be more than one, but Her Fearful Symmetry is the one that goes out most (other than TTTW). It is a very polarising book though, people either love it or hate it.

TTTW is a very popular reading group book. Most reading group books have people who like them and some who don't, but there's one book I've never heard anything bad said about: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday. So wondered if any of the NPs have read it and what they think.

At the moment the most popular reading group books are The Help, and the Hare with the Amber Eyes.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i can't help with any of that - but i am curious - what's the difference between egg your own chickens lay and one you can get in waitrose? is the taste noticeably different? i don't think i've ever had an egg that didn't come from the supermarket, expect at my parents i think they get them from a farm shop but taste the same to me. same with battery vs. free range in the supermarket, i don't think i could tell the difference in a blind taste test.

Why is it the epic replies that go missing?

Tomparaphrase...no difference in taste. They look different. Both uneared and cracked open. Additionally, there are other fluffy reasons to buy my eggs.


In Typing the epic reply though some of the fluffy differences clarified to me i do not want to do it. Not eggs. Maybe a lifestyle cook book. Easier to sell that when i have heTing and a lifestyle revoling less aroud being near a duvet for warmth though, and no mice in the kitchen and well, a working kitchen!h

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

Is there anywhere more local that you could take the enterprise? Do the London people have a wider network anywhere nearer? The cost of getting eggs to London would be the most prohibitive thing to start with, I should think.

Both threads would make lovely brand names.

Most locally, i can sell outside my house, or with the outlay for vaccs and numbers/stamps, on the local shop. Selling them isn't really the problem, its the brand potential. Inside me lives and breathes an entrepreneur, only she is cold tired and overfed nowadays.

Doozergirl

vivatifosi wrote: »

There may be more than one, but Her Fearful Symmetry is the one that goes out most (other than TTTW). It is a very polarising book though, people either love it or hate it.

Oh I have read that one. The Girls must be by someone else (yes, Lori Lansen), about twins as well. I thought the much of the body of HFS was great, haunting, but the end of it was disappointing. I liked the other characters around - Martin upstairs and the lady that organized the tours of the cemetery. No other books from her yet.

Haven't read the others you've mentioned.