• Environment,  Repair

    Repair Cafe – the new, old idea

    Maybe you’ve been repairing stuff for years without really thinking about it. Or maybe you just chucked stuff out the moment it was no longer perfect, shiny and new. We all know what we “should” be doing, we didn’t need Greta or David Attenborough to tell us that binning as much as we do is a seriously bad idea. But maybe their voices have made us take a bit more notice and a bit more action. Environmental campaigners have long told people to try and keep stuff going for as long as possible, repairing, renovating, upcycling, re-purposing but many of those skills had fallen out of favour due to uber-cheap…