Authors: Jonathan Wakeham and Richard Huntington |
Homebase: Do your own thing
The new sex
Grey is the new brown. Cooking is the new rock 'n' roll. And DIY, so the Daily Telegraph told us, is the new sex (the only difference being that the wet patch lasts for four days).
How on earth did this happen?
DIY, surely, was something which trainspotters gave up when they wanted street cred. It was something done by men alone in sheds. It was shelving, rivets, grouting and rows of jam jars filled with nails, because you never know...