An old tee shirt.

Posted on May 16, 2024 Posted in Uncategorized, MemoriesTagged Life, Prompt, Recycle, Repair, Clothes, Tee shirt, Reuse, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1940Leave a comment

What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today?

My tee shirts are getting holey before I throw them away. Most of my clothes are more than five years old and many are much older. If I get rid of them I put them out for charity or take them to a clothes bank for recycling. I can’t afford to spend lots of money on clothes. I’m not a designer shaped person (thin), I’m short and chubby. I’ve never bought clothes by well known makers. If it fits and it looks OK that’s good enough for me.

Why waste money on clothes you wear once or twice then throw them away? I think the reuse, repair, recycle, restore values are the ones to live by.

Stuck in Wales

Posted on December 17, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bad luck, Breakdown, breakdown service, Car, clutch, Life, Now, Repair, Stuck, Wales2 Comments

My sister is broken down in a car in Wales, her clutch has gone. She’s been waiting for the breakdown service for about four hours! They keep saying they are sending someone but it’s getting late, and cold. Why they advertise a service when they can leave someone on their own late at night. So of course I’m worried about her. I will keep ringing her back until I know she is safe. I cannot go to her because she is about eighty miles away in a town I don’t know. So if you read this please just send her good wishes. X

Green jumper, old jeans

Posted on November 30, 2023November 30, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged cable knit, Clothes, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2138, Jeans, Jumper, Life, make do and mend, moss green, Repair, Trousers, wear4 Comments

What are your two favorite things to wear?

My old jeans must be ten or fifteen years old. I used to be bigger so I’ve taken them in several times. I also like my moss green, cable knit jumper. It has a big turtle neck collar, and at this time of year they both keep me warm.

I love painting and I have to be careful not to get the paint on the jumper. The jeans don’t matter as much. I’ve used them for painting in for years.

I think clothes should last, they don’t need replacing every few months, they should be made to have a good lifetime, so that we don’t waste material and harm the environment more than we need to. I believe in make do and mend.

Eye to eye

Posted on October 14, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Colours, Digital drawing, experimental, Green, Orange, Repair, Stylus, Tablet2 Comments

Another digital drawing from a few years ago. Also drawn on my tablet. I think I was trying to add some autumnal colours to my drawing. I love experimenting and third app I was using allowed you to add gradient fill to my drawing. I really must get my tablet fixed.

Repair

Posted on July 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colourful, Drawing, Life, Recycle, Repair, Reuse, Sketching, stitching, threadbare, Worn out4 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was repair. I’m currently trying to sew up jeans that are falling apart. I’m trying to do tiny stitches to hold things together. Left side, actual stitching, right, my attempt at a drawing of it!

Fair fat and forty?

Posted on July 8, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blurry, fair tat and forty, Fine Art, Recycle, Repair, Reuse, self portrait2 Comments

Blurry photo from my Facebook memories

I called it “fair fat and forty”, which was actually a statement radiographers used to use for the risk having gallstones!

I must have been feeling a bit fed up when I painted it. The picture was taken off another photo so it’s a bit pixelated. I shall have to find the painting and take a better photo. I was wearing a favourite tee shirt recycle, repair, reuse. And I’m in front of books with humourous titles that I made up… I can’t read them here. I tend to do a self portrait every ten years or so. X

Car is home!

Posted on January 27, 2023January 28, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bus, Car, expense, Fixed, Grateful, Home, Life, old car, Repair, Second hand, Taxi, thankfulLeave a comment

I have got my car back! Finally after a week of waiting for it I can breathe a sigh of relief. But among all of the hassle I realise how anti public transport I am. I think it’s because I’ve used buses and taxis in the past, and I don’t know the routes or timings for the buses, and often when I’ve ordered a taxi it hasn’t turned up. One time I had to walk home from hospital because there were non available. Also since the pandemic I try to avoid groups of people, so buses worry me.

Having a car is a freedom and a curse. I walk less and don’t cycle anymore because I have one. I don’t know what to do if we have to get rid of it. The car is very old and it’s like an old pair of shoes, if it needs repairing I have to pay out because I can’t afford to replace it with another (second hand) one. But at least by keeping it we are not wasting new resources.

Car saga.. Again

Posted on January 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Car, Life, Mechanic, old car, ongoing, Problem, Problems, Repair, starter motor, thankful, TimeLeave a comment

Plans, don’t make them! The mechanic was ill yesterday. He’s a lovely chap, and really helpful. But he can’t help being under the weather. So yesterday he said ring today and the car should be done. Unfortunately it isn’t. He fixed the problem with the earthing of the starter motor but today when he tried running it, it was very feeble. It’s worn out basically. So now he’s ordered another one for Friday but he can’t say when it will arrive. I explained ideally I need to go somewhere tomorrow, but as he said he has no control over the deliveries. I have to accept this (the world does not revolve around me). I’m just thankful it’s getting done.

In car news…

Posted on January 25, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Battery, Car, earthing problem, electric car, loose connection, Motor, Oil, Repair, starter motorLeave a comment

We don’t need a starter motor! Our mechanic found out it was a loose connection and the motor was not earthed to the car body. We still need a gasket (ordered) some oil and a battery but hopefully it won’t be as costly as we thought. Its been a bit of a nightmare, especially since the car is so old, but it has been very reliable so I don’t mind spending a bit more money on it. Goodness knows what I will do if we have to get an electric car. I might have to buy an old, battery driven milk float! I think that’s all I can afford.

Car saga

Posted on January 23, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Battery, Breakdown, Car, car repairs, Cold, Life, motor mechanic, Problems, Repair, saga, Too difficultLeave a comment

The garage we took our car to is closing down! The owner is retiring apparently. We didn’t know when we left our car on the forecourt. I’m trying to find his mobile number so I rang another business that knows him. They might be able to get his mobile number for me but apparently he will be going there later today so all I can hope is that they tell him we have been trying to contact him or that he goes to the garage and sees the car!

We tried other garages, but I would need to take the keys to the one who could help and they are seven or eight miles away, or the local garage but they can’t collect it until the third of February!

All we can do is hope the mechanic gets in touch for now. I would go and bump start the car but I don’t know if we have the strength to push it as its on the flat.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Repair