The throwaway society / making it

When I was a child, I wasn’t like most other children, what’s that you say I might have known. No, what I mean is I liked to take things apart in my spare time, not in a destructive way but to find out how they worked, especially things that lit up when the electric was switched on; in that event they tended to make one’s hair stand on end when things were touched, you know such as vacuum tubes commonly known as valves. Motor bikes, cars, washing machines, clocks, furniture, you name it I can repair it no item too large or too small. What’s that you say our computer gone dead, oh that’s easy it’s probably just the transformer a common fault, half a dozen connections or so later and a replacement transformer and you’re in business.


Now this may be hard to believe but there was a time when the man about the house could make and turn their hand to almost anything” replacing light switches / plug sockets, plumber, glazier, painter and decorator, and numerous other jobs about the house. But it would seem those days have gone in favour of the man with the van and the throwaway society, and whilst I’m on the subject of making useful items, how many people can create the Venus de milo with just a Kango hammer, nah I’m only joking, hmm, now where did I leave the Kango hammer.


Nonetheless, it’s been some time since I reviewed a book and (Making it) took my fancy since it’s right up my street, what a breath of fresh air I thought and so I also highly recommend (The Repair shop) hence the huge interest shown in repairing those precious, sentimental items, that mean so much.


www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Jay-Blades/dp/1529059194


Alan