The fix is in: Make do and get it mended for nothing at Yarraville's repair cafe

Have you ever loved an appliance so much that you couldn't bear to part with it? 

Please help us: Konika Sadler, centre, and her
son Krishan, left, watch electrician James Enright,
a volunteer at the Melbourne Repair Cafe in
Yarraville, fix their 15-year-old toaster. 

The Sadler family feels that way about their Philips Comfort toaster. It's slim and it cooks four pieces at once, evenly on both sides. 

Konika Sadler bought it 15 years ago in Bangalore, India, soon after marrying her Australian husband, Peter.

In 2003 the devoted couple brought the toaster with them when they moved to Melbourne, and thousands of happy breakfasts ensued.

Read Carolyn Webb’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “The fix is in: Make do and get it mended for nothing at Yarraville's repair cafe.”

(Our energy-rich consumerist lifestyles are one of the ingredients that worsen climate change, and so we need to urgently change our behaviour and, as shown here in Carolyn Webb’s story, repair, reuse and refuse - Robert McLean)