New cafe culture

Loved Sarah Pickette’s Beyond Repairs (August). It made me smile to remember those clever old ‘fixers’ who kept clocks ticking along and dried children’s tears by mending beloved toys. It seems we’ve become a throwaway society, so I was delighted to read about Repair Cafes springing up. It’s also great to learn that many of these latter-day repairers are women.

Diane Davidson, Mt Wellington, NZ