Isn’t there something about doing some work in expectation of payment?
EG I have had some things mended by fellow members of my local model railway and model engineering societies for nothing or I have sorted things out for my neighbours, given lifts etc but in the other hand if I set up as a Gardener/Model Train fixer etc even if I run at a loss its a business
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and in short you are for ever floored.
Wilkins Micawber, Ch12 David Copperfield
