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No doubt about it, walking in stilettos is great for your calves. I’m sure if more guys knew just how foot a workout they could get from an hour in stilettos there would be a rack of them at the gym

That’s the height of heel you could use on the towpaths and while boating - it would be nice to find a pair like that

I will not pretend that my calves were not feeling it by the end of that walk, but I nevertheless wore the boots to church later that morning. I will at least pretend that doing such activity on a regular basis has made my legs look a lot better than they did 12 years ago. I've seen some old pictures of myself, and my legs looked like toothpicks sticking out of my shorts.

I’ve not owned a car in nearly 30 years. I don’t miss it. Boots, bicycles, buses and trains have been my mode of transport all that time, and now I live on a boat.

I wear my heels on the boat, or if I am moored at a boatyard, on the diesel landing, or in town where the towpath is paved (although in some cases they are cobbled) For the most part when walking along the towpaths I wear low heeled knee boots. I’m virtually never not wearing knee boots of some description

I can't imagine there will be much interest in restoring some of the cars today... no matter the model they really all look the same. A case in point is a RAV4, Honda CRV, Nissan Rogue, etc... they look essentially the same in style. And I get it. When engineers have to design a car with so many of the same parameters like crash testing, and miles per gallon, the more specifics they have to design for, the more the makes will be all the same on a given model. But they are boring. Myself I drive a 2003 Honda CR-V with 200,000 miles. Mechanically it is sound and has no rust, which where I live is the biggest killer of vehicles. Mathematically it always makes sense to fix a car because what little you spend in repairs more than makes up for the replacement cost of the car. For every year extra you get out of it, the more money you save. But with rust that is not the case. Where I live where salt is on the road much of the year, rust is the biggest killer. There just is no saving a rusted out car. But knowing which cars last longer than others is where a person can get ahead. I struggled one year. My car needed fixing so I rented a car to drive while it was in the repair shop and it was a 2024 Toyota RAV4 with 3 miles on it, and my 2003 Honda was in the shop. It was hard to give that up and go back to what essentially amounted to a Model T, but I am quite frugal and the logical thing to do ultimately won out.