Recycling bones, patching up bomb-damaged buildings, fashioning a new hat out of an old trilby or collecting saucepans to make Spitfires... Pathe news items got across the wartime government's message to 'make do and mend' and popular songs took up the theme: this CD includes George Formby's I Did What I Could With My Gas Mask and Arthur Askey's The Thing-Ummy-Bob as well as a public service broadcast on saving bathwater. DVD.