Author: Arch Copy
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Solving stiff deadstock denim
A great pair of 70s jeans is really a must, and it took me years of longing to find mine. A deadstock pair of 1970s Lee bellbottoms on the Oxfam online shop – £12.99! Label still on! Unbelievable. Yuh, sure. Unbelievable until I tried to get them on my body during a heatwave. Not only…
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Local is your world
On my little island, where the roads fall into the sea, local council matters a hell of a lot. We don’t have alternative routes when landslips block a road. We rely on our local services because that’s all there is. Sadly, I’m having to imagine what an inept Reform council will do to an already…
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Women are not OK
Every woman I know is running a household, holding down a full-time job, working out career paths for her children in the age of technofeudalism, listening to an audiobook of the 18th century journal of a plantation-owner’s wife, planning a family reunion, donating money to amputees in Palestine, taking supplements to protect against osteoporosis, putting…
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April makes and mends
Spent the Easter weekend clearing out the only way I know keeps me engaged: work work work, find fun thing and play with it, work work work, play as needed, work…and repeat. The great thing about this is I got so much mending done over the four days. I finished like five WIPs and did…
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March makes and mends
Less writing and more making recently. I have to say, since I’ve been majorly cutting back on buying clothes, I’ve done a lot more playing within my existing wardrobe. I’ve got four storage boxes of mending and alterations waiting for my attention, so I could ‘shop’ every day for months just by adding a couple…
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