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Got these in brown from the end of Nine West sale. £20. Unfortunately they only go up to US 10W = UK8 in the UK which means they're a bit tight (I'm really UK9) and will need stretching. I think I'll try the isopropyl/water and newspaper method. Quiet and grippy rubber sole, leather upper. Ideal for discreet outdoor wear. They go well with a pair of Gap brown chino style trousers which were £12.99 in their mid-season sale. They seem to have a few left on the rack in more than 1 branch, typically UK3 or UK8:smile:

President Sarkozy of France has just visited HM the Queen. What's that got to do with high heels? I haven't seen any relevant pictures but radio commentators remarked that he was wearing stacked heels while his glamorous wife was wearing flats. She still looked taller than him.

But Scunny is down south - in Lincolnshire:silly:

But Yorkshire has Penistone. Both places cause occasional problems for "net nanny" type software.

I'm in London. Don't venture north of the tripe curtain without armed escort:smile:

Thats a great plan. It's just to bad our USA politicians are involved in oil and do everything in there power to prevent this kind of energy from being produced. .....!

Johnie, you and I are probably near opposite ends of the political spectrum - I'm fairly middle of the road in the UK = bleeding heart liberal, verging on dangerous commie, in the US. Let's hope that enterprise will win over government in the US on this one. The trouble is that it still needs a fairly small amount of government input, mainly to subsidise the grid interconnects, in the early days of big solar programme. The US power grid is close to breaking anyway and there is nithing like enough capacity to send all that power from the south to the north.

Also the conservatives won't like it because it's too green and Al Gore will like it:silly: That's why I made the case in terms of economics and energy security.

The US can put a man on the moon, design and make the chips that make all the world's computers tick and all sorts of other impressive things. There are few technical difficulties for the US to achieve energy self sufficiency by 2050 along with massive CO2 reductions. The economics are positive - GDP and standard of living should both be positive with massive investment in solar. But the technology isn't very sexy - lots of relatively small low tech units spread acorss the deserts - and the political will is severely lacking.

It's already economically destructive at over 3.00 a gal.

My heart bleeds. In the UK (and most of Europe) petrol is the equivalent of around $8 per US gallon. Largely due to a different tax regime.

I'm not looking for sympathy.

Fortunately the US is also home to good old fashioned entrepreneurs who are prepared to put their money where they think it will make a profit. At present there's a fair bit (nowhere near enough) of investment going into solar energy in the sunbelt states. The energy in the sun falling on just a small fraction of the unused land in Arizona etc is ample to provide ALL the USA's electricity with plenty left over. Most of the kit is pretty low tech too, mirrors, boilers, turbines etc. There is some high tech trickery needed to give effective overnight storage of energy but it's becoming practical and economic now.

The energy left over could provide for a lot of heating and transportation needs that are currently served by oil.

To all red blooded Americans: where would you rather get your energy? From a bunch of unreliable Arabs or Russians? Or right in your own back yard, done with goold old American knowhow and investment.

Take a decent chunk of the US demand for oil out of the world equation and OPEC will be pleading poverty and begging for mercy.

Northern Europe doesn't have such attractive options - not enough sun. Southern Europe, around the Mediterranean and into north Africa has good conditions too. Though this is politically more fragmented than the US. Countries such as Israel, Egypt, Morocco have got plenty of virtually unpopulated sunny areas. Israel is starting to invest, I don't know about the others.

Folks, I think we may have a translation problem here.

UK: Trousers = US: Pants

which a non-native English speaker may have inadvertantly written as "panties".

UK: Pants are an item of underwear, often Underpants or Undies, which we should not be displaying in this forum. Not sure of the US usage here.

Clarks: Quite a few of their styles are available in 9 Next: Ditto Evans: All styles up to at least 9 Faith: A few styles in 9 Quite a few Hush Puppies styles are available in 9.

Altogether now.............

http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/d009.html

UK8 or 9 for me too. London area but I don't think I can get to The Miller this year. OT, this really belongs in another thread: I hope that the restaurant booking for the pre-heelmet on 14th Feb has been done. I know I can't come but it's Valentines day and many restaurants are VERY heavily booked. My partner and I try to avoid going out that day:smile: Even as a couple we don't like the ambience.

You can park in the NCP car park, right next to the venue, its about 15 feet away.

Being a cheapskate I found free on-street parking within 10 minutes walk of the Miller last year. Had to hunt around for a few minutes though. Don't think I can make it this year.

Welcome to the forum. I've seen Fog wearing the boots from his avatar and they look even better in real life. (This comment would be made meaningless if Fog changes his avatar. To avoid this I've taken the liberty of uploading a copy of the avatar picture to this post).

Just got these from Amazon UK. Very comfortable and very discreet. They are Hush Puppies Ester. They may still have them in UK8 and 9. Would have preferred black but they were out of stock. I might dye them. The wedge heel unit won't dye well if at all but it's a very dark brown and would probably look OK against black leather.

In the classical field there isn't very much.....

Anything by Schumann or Schubert (ducks to avoid rotten tomatoes etc:smile: )

Everyone sat back did they!?!?

Most of what the good doctor has said is 100% true. The only point I would take issue on is Roosevelt. He was very pro the allies well before the US formally came into the war and had to fight against strong anti-war and even pro-axis interests in the US.

.... My calfs are to big. The foot size is perfect, I can close the zipper up to approx the ancle and that's it....

I have the opposite problem. The shaft is usually too big. I've had at least 1 pair reduced round the calf by a cobbler. Even with ankle boots, there's often far too much slack round the ankle.

All the laws and Digital Rights Management etc won't trouble the big boys, the ones who are really ripping off the artists and record companies. They'll just carry on exactly as before. On the other hand it's a real nuisance for those of us who want to make backup copies of our DVDs, use music tracks on different media etc. Back in the 1960s of course it was wrong to copy that Beatles LP on to cassette to give to a friend. It's still wrong to share your MP3 tracks now but let's get a sense of proportion into this. On the scale of crime from parking offences to murder where does it fall? The big losses to the industry are from the big pirate operations. The comparison with stealing physical goods is misguided. If I steal your car you don't have a car anymore. If I steal your music track you still have it to enjoy yourself.

I am loving this Cornell article on society's double standard.....

While I agree with much of this article the following quote illustrates an unfortunate prejudice of our cousins across the pond:

....men must confine themselves to more baggy clothes unless they’re either European, homosexual or want people to assume as much...

Lets keep things real, cyberspace is great, but its so much better to put a face to name.

Agreed:smile:

hi all! to what airport do 'we' fly to be as close to the hotel as possible?

Stansted, Luton or Gatwick. Easyjet have lots of flights to all of these from Schipol. For Gatwick and Luton the Thameslink line takes you to Kings Cross, close to the hotel.

P.S.: Hope my english is good enough for all you nice people out there...

Better than some of the Americans:smile:

Welcome to the forum.

Not really relevant to the rest of this thread but you might like to know that the hotel is right on the corner of Drummond Street. This is a street with several Indian veggie restaurants. Some people like the Diwana, I prefer the Ravi Shankar. All of them offer good food and good value. Try a thali or a dosa. At the other end of Drummond Street, until recently when they closed down, was Lawrence Corner. This was a sort of military surplus shop that specialised in the whackier end of the clothing and was frequented by young fashionable types in search of something a bit different. The shop now looks very sad and unloved.

Ya, and what about spelling, commas, apostrophe's,periods, etc.

I assume that the incorrect use of an apostrophe in a plural was deliberate in order to illustrate the point:smile: In the UK we often call this the greengrocer's apostrophe since they seem particularly prone to this habit. I'll forgive the use of period for full stop since that's a problem with a foreign language. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1445564.stm

And to answer the original question I think it must have been around the age of 7 or 8 when trying my mum's though I don't have any clear memories. My first pair were genuine 1970s boots for men with a 2" heel. I still have them.

While we are on (or is it off ? ) the topic, the classical foulup is to unlock the front door.

"Hey, I smell gas !"

Click on the light switch.

BOOM !

Far more likely to detonate the gas by turning OFF a light. Not much of a spark when you turn it on.

I have a couple of Faith 9s which fit me well. I'm really 8.5 in ordinary men's shoes and usually end up with 9s. I've never tried any Evans footwear.