‘We need to make do and mend’
Tuesday 25th January 2011, 2:56PM GMT.
Nigel Jones and fellow enthusiast Mark Forskitt outside the former Le Seelleur workshop at Gas Place
THE Occupation ‘make do and mend’ spirit can be used to restore Jersey’s community values, a newly formed group has claimed.
Based on the UK Transition movement, the group will aim to encourage Islanders to return to the values of previous generations, when people would grow their own food, produce less waste and rely on each other more.
Nigel Jones was behind the founding of the Jersey group by organising a public meeting about the movement earlier this month.
They believe that the former Le Seelleur workshop at Gas Place would be the perfect base for the organisation, which will be officially launched at a meeting at St Brelade’s youth Club, Communicare, St Brelade, next Monday, 31 January, at 7.30 pm.
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Grow our own food where? in the crack between the door to my bedsit and the one next door. I would but there’s a cigarette paper stuck and the gap is so tight I can’t get it out.
Oh hang on, if I sleep standing up I could get a couple of gro bags in.
Make do and mend, we’ve been doing it for years cos after the rents paid there nowt left.
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Well they will certainly have to mend and make do with that derelict eyesore.
Better be quick though before Freddie sticks a SSI on it
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First you need to bring back some good old community spirit and most of all caring for others, that how it my Jersey used to be.
Over the years that spirit has eroded and most people just seems to look after them selves.
Never been rich all ways had to make and mend Jersey lost it way when the Finance came and paid big wages lots got greedy, now money not so freely available they don’t know what to do to make ends meet
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Pity they don’t take a leaf out of their own book.
New blackberries need replacing,have had them about 6 months-old hat now.
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1: “Grow our own food where? in the crack between the door to my bedsit and the one next door. I would but there’s a cigarette paper stuck and the gap is so tight I can’t get it out.”
I think the plan is to find solutions so that people in your situation can also grow their own food if they want to. Go along and see before rubbishing their efforts.
2: “Well they will certainly have to mend and make do with that derelict eyesore.”
PJG you know that is not an eyesore. Looks like a lovely granite building with an old archway built in. Nice if it gets some use.
Why does ANYBODY have an issue with what they are trying to do. You don’t have to join and it doesn’t do anything other than possibly make the lives of those involved (even those not involved) better.
Wish them luck.
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Correction: It’s ‘Make and Mend’, not make do and mend. Making do sounds like second best, but things carefully made by hand can be lovelier than anything you buy in the shops. Thanks for the coverage, though. @Immy, come along to one of our meetings – you might be surprised at some of the ideas we are working on.
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There is a large plot of land which, with a little work, could be used for desperately wanted allotments just next to the Le Selleur building. However, they are going to make a totally unnecessary park there.
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With all the young tradesmen and women at highlands college-this would be a geat project for them or people who are in the trade to get some work,instead of the state paying them to sit at home!!!
We all say give the young someting to do………….
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What’s with all the negativity?
This is a brillaint idea and far more people should try a little “make and mend” attitude! The wasteful lifestyle of most people nowadays is frankly disgusting. People are far too selfish to change their ways for the environment, and now in the middle of a recession apparently they are too lazy as well!
Don’t buy new clothes. Get a needle and thread or a packet of fabric dye instead.
Don’t have a garden? Use one of the allotments that are now available. Grow veggies in a window box or in household plant pots.
Anyone who thinks they can’t be a little bit self-sufficeint or produce a little less waste is just too damned lazy or selfish to bother trying.
And for this group and anyone else who’s trying I say Good for them and a big well done.
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Would be a fabulous idea, I think Mr Le Selleur would really like to know that a building he has left in trust to help people will help people, that IS what he left it for
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