Umbrellas: a serious ecological issue | 28 comments (28 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Umbrellas: a serious ecological issue (none / 0)

Here some old shops do umbrella rib replacement, but the craft probably died out more to the West. You could also try bicycle repair shops, maybe.

Myself, I only had three umbrellas in my life, and it would have been two had I not been an idiot to leave the second on a train (I think).

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Dec 5th, 2006 at 01:15:49 PM EST

Re: Umbrellas: a serious ecological issue (4.00 / 2)

There's a shop here as well (or at least there was the last time I needed an umbrella).

When my last umbrella wore out, the man there gave me a discount of 15 DM (yeah, I know, it's been a while) on a new umbrella as trade-in on my old one - he could reuse the (wooden) shaft.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Tue Dec 5th, 2006 at 01:25:43 PM EST
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Wow, DoDo, I bow down to you. Either you don't mind getting wet like a dog, or you spent a fortune on the three umbrellas you bought. Or, it's very dry in Hungary. But I though it does tend to rain there, at least occasionally...

Really, just three umbrellas???

"If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it." Lord Brabazon

by Barbara on Tue Dec 5th, 2006 at 02:59:52 PM EST
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Well, it definitely rains less here than London or even Prague, and when I was a child, I just used a raincoat, so comparison might really be unfair. But the second (damn why did I lost it!) and third were indeed expensive... and solid. What I wrote about repair reflects experience only with the first.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Dec 5th, 2006 at 04:49:13 PM EST
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Umbrellas: a serious ecological issue | 28 comments (28 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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