Morning Metro: Tippling Room Opening, GreenFest Tomorrow, and Repair Cafes
Decatur Metro | May 11, 2012 | 8:50 am
- Pinewood Tippling Room opens May 15th, with Julia Leroy-inspired menu [Eater]
- Decatur Green Fest tomorrow! [DGF]
- Kudzu Antiques opening second location in Sandy Springs [TNT]
- Is Fernbank Science Center sustainable? [Patch]
- Atlanta Food Truck park reopens after permitting issue [CL]
- An event idea for Decatur? Amsterdam’s “Repair Cafes” [NYT]
Photo courtesy of 1010uk via Flickr
Bearings had an interesting write-up about Pinewood last week. http://atlanta.bearingsguide.com/2012/05/08/the-pinewood-tippling-room/
I love the idea of a Repair Cafe. Not only are we not handy, but most repairs, refinishing, reupholstering, etc. costs more than our original items did! I would be a frequent customer, especially if coffee was also available!
Daren sent it to me, and I really like the idea too! I’m not sure what I would get repaired though. Hmm…I guess there’s a bunch of stuff that’s succumbed to Trash Amnesty Day that should have instead been repaired. Like that box fan that I dropped on the floor and would never stop rattling.
Geez…I don’t want to start thinking too hard about Trash Amnesty/Neighborhood Clean Up Day and our “sustainability goals”.
Perhaps a “Repair Cafe” weekend should preempt Neighborhood Clean Up season every year? That would at least begin to quell my own personal unease.
Repair things? For free? That isn’t american. If God had wanted us to repair household goods, he wouldn’t have made them so cheap to buy. And just think of all the liability if that iron burns down the house due to a faulty repair.
Oh and if it makes you feel queazy inside to put things out on Trash Amnesty Day, just put it out the day before. It will never make it to the garbage truck.
YES YES YES @ Repair Cafe!
i used to get my attitude repaired in those lovely cafes in Amsterdam so this makes perfect sense to me.
I really like this idea, too (what’s not to like?) and would participate. On the other hand, one reason so few things get repaired these days is that the parts and materials are inferior and trying to cobble them back together is often not worthwhile.
(I have a wonderful column-type fan that cools 2-3 rooms if it’s positioned wisely and the windows are open, but it’s slightly less wonderful since I dropped the remote control last year and something on its little circuit board broke. Could it be fixed? I wouldn’t want to pay much, since the fan still works fine and besides, I didn’t pay all that much for the fan to start with.)
This is a wonderful idea, but where would we find people who actually know how to fix things? Boy, do I miss my engineer father-in-law.
Yeah, I wish my handy father lived nearby. The genes did not get passed on, neither to me nor through to the next generation that I can tell.
But given some of the gorgeous yards and home interiors I see around town, not to mention the PTA, community craft, Scout, and church projects that have crossed my path, I think there’s some darn handy folks in town. They just don’t live in my house. We have to lure them to a repair cafe………..maybe with some real coffee and yummy food? Whatever bribe works!