Recycling, reusing,

There is no doubt that British television produces excellent period dramas; ‘call the midwife’ is one of these but it is because of a small error in it that I am writing this. Sitting round a fire outside, a group of midwives and nuns were having a pleasant evening – but the fire was wrong!  Nobody in the 50s would have burnt wood that was clean and could clearly have been used for something more useful. Even now you will find men well into their retirement keeping bits and pieces that could be useful – bits of wood, tube, metal, fittings and furniture – almost anything that might be used at a later date to make or mend something without the need to spend anything other than a little time, knowledge and effort; what is rubbish to some is treasure to others. The make do and mend mindset was the forerunner of fashionable green recycling.