Leaderboard

Sounds like a nice day out! Yes block heel ankle boots and knee boots seem much in fashion - fine by me as I like the style. I just wish that given their popularity they’d be made in larger sizes! I see knee boots quite often up here in rural Yorkshire but they are generally gum boots or riding boots and always worn only by women. I am the exception - I might not be able or willing to wear heels in the rough and muddy towpaths, but my low heeled knee boots are always the nicest. I am getting known as the guy who always wears tall boots.

I was in the City of London (the central business district,also known as "the square mile" for those unfamiliar with the greatest city on earth) today. It's usually pretty dead on a Sunday. I saw two ancient ceremonies that are probably of Victorian origin. One was driving sheep across Southwark Bridge, the other was a gathering of pearly kings and queens by the Guildhall. Anyone not of these sceptred isles will think us mad but we really don't mind. https://sheepdrive.london/ https://londonist.com/london/things-to-do/pearly-kings-and-queens-harvest-festival None of the sheep were wearing heels! There were plenty of 2" to 2.5" block heel ankle and knee boots to be seen. A few women at the pearly festival were wearing nice 3" stilettos. one pair of OTK brown suede boots, about 2" heel.

Jumping off a form bought back (painful) memories. In the 70's I jumped off a loading dock onto a grass area. However, a water pipe had broken and I jumped into a mud pit. I hurt my ankle. Black and blue from my toes to my waist, but this before MRIs or CAT scans and all they told me was I sprained it. Men's shoes would have me turning my ankle 5 to 6+ times a week, YES A WEEK. I would have to sit down, message it and I would be able to get up and go in a minute or so. 25+ years latter, when they looked into that ankle, they found I had torn my tendon off a bone in my foot. It got reattached in that foot's first reconstruction.Later, that foot had a leaky tendon, and had to have the leak sealed. Then that foot had another reconstruction when scar tissue from the first operation interferred with my blood flow. During that operation they also rerouted another tendon. After that operation I found women's shoes and have had no further issues. Except when I was walking in running shoes and pavement broke off and I totaled my peronral tendon. Now for the other foot. In the mid 80's I hyperextended the achilles tendon playing tennis. Had to wear a 'balleria' cast, a cast with a 3 inch stooped built into the heel. Couldn't wait to get that cast off. Then in the nineties, I stepped into a gopher hole just before leaving on a family vacation. When I returned, I had both ankles looked at. They wanted to work on both ankles, but I choose this one first. I had broken a bone inside my ankle sack. They also tighten my tendons too. Then I stubbed my toe, I meaning really stub it. I wouldn't get straight and would just stick straight up. In that operation they reroute tendons and took out a hammer toe joint, then inserted 6 inch rods/pins through the toes. Weeks later when they pulled those pins out I screamed at the highest pitch ever. @mlroseplant try soaking your foot in Epsom Salt and see what happens.