The real repair shop

Rob Jenkins on making side-saddles, and balancing antique with innovation

I had my first-time experience of homelessness when I was 11 years old because I wouldn’t go to school. To go home from the bullying into an alcoholic background, plus I was sniffing glue, solvents an

I’m selling Big Issue basically to make sure I feed myself. I get help from the government as well which I try to send to my wife. So Big Issue keeps me going and keeps me alive. I came back from Aust

Could it be all change at the charity shop?

In last month’s column (see issue 375, p113), I mentioned I had attended FixFest 2025 (tinyurl. com/376fixfest), a two-day international repair conference organised by those lovely people at the Resta

After searching for a year in a heated property market, first-time buyers Lacey Richards and Aaron Coe finally got lucky with an unloved ex-rental house. As the owners were moving to Australia and wan