Posts Tagged "make do and mend"

THE RISE OF THE RIGHT TO REPAIR

Three decades of financial affluence and low cost manufacturing has led us into the tyranny of a disposal culture. Consumers were duped into thinking that it made no sense to repair a kettle when for 20 quid you can simply replace it. Thus driving not just a further increase... Learn more

About tinkers and tinkering about

My grandmother would have been amused that an unremarkable event had such a profound effect on me. I was a child, spending long holidays, as always, with my Manx relatives. We were in the scullery of her stone cottage in the Isle of Man. It was a tiny space-... Learn more