http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/make-do-and-mend-2/ From the edge of Zone 1 to the middle of nowhere... Sat, 18 May 2013 18:24:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/make-do-and-mend-2/#comment-16960 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:37:27 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3957#comment-16960 [...] driver pulled up to ask us if we knew how high it was (he being on the side of the river where the sign was broken) before he risked crossing.* If all else fails, a useful career as human depth gauge beckons [...]

]]> http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/make-do-and-mend-2/#comment-16739 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:57:11 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3957#comment-16739 Funnily enough, despite buying almost nothing, we still manage to get through money somehow…

]]> http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/make-do-and-mend-2/#comment-16737 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:52:22 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3957#comment-16737 Careful, throwing things away that we could still use and buying new stuff we don’t need are the cornerstones of our consumerist society.
I sympathise with your struggle to find clothes that fit. When we visit our family in Japan we tend to go clothes shopping: it’s quite startling to find clothes that actually fit first time…

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