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[Dupe Post] Modem dropped and browser hung for several minutes.

Err, umm,

Umm.

Keep the existing content, for now, but please run the code through the checker at http://validator.w3.org/ and it will point out the stuff that needs fixing in the code. I seem to remember that some of the site looked radically different in some browsers.

I see that highluc did his 750 posts in 1 year and 6 weeks, whilst yamyam took only 1 year and 4 weeks for the same amount.

squirrelheels will be there a bit quicker than that if he keeps on posting at this rate. Darn kids. Too much freetime.

There are several Japanese web sites with a massive amount of secret pictures taken in shops and on public transport. They seem to be into that in a big way. I have no idea how I stumbled across one, one day, but I'm sure Google can help.

>> I guess that maybe presumes that you are born in 1994, and thus, during this year, will be 18 years of age. <<

Er? Umm? Not sure what sort of mathematics they teach out there in Scandinavia? Or have I slept and it is now AD 2012 ??

A useful price comparison maybe that The Little Shoe Box will do a custom made to measure zip-up all leather thigh boot (crotch length), with a 5.5 inch heel for GBP 265 at the moment.

If that really is solid stainless steel then it is going to be expensive. Are you sure it isn't something cheaper, that is then coated?

You really do have to report back on progress now!

Yes, there was a scene like that. The lower-half of the person in the wheelchair was covered in a blanket. I think the other people there are possibly urging that person to escape before he is 'got at', at which point the person sticks out a leg from under the blanket to reveal the fishnet stockings and high-heeled shoe they were already wearing.

You can also try Evans for up to at least UK Size 10, though the styles are fairly boring, and not very high.

Oh heck. Your two images above are from the new Faith web site. Faith are often reckoned to be the shoe fashionistas Mecca. Hmm, looks like fashion isn't going to be very high this summer. Interestingly the Faith web site has had a complete redesign in the last few weeks. It has at least five times as many products as it used to (including a few Bronx and Morgan {de Toi} items, and now it also features on-line ordering (to UK addresses only). The site is a vast improvement over the old one, but the product range is not so good. Darn.

Check out the Faith web site at www.faith.co.uk as they have a size 9 section, where some styles are available in the bigger size.

Faith shoes are also available in Top Shop, as well as on the www.faith.co.uk web site. There are still some left in the local store, on sale at GBP 25 as you said.

Smudgeur - I can't see your image. It fails to load every time for several days now.

There are a few about here and there. I think TK Maxx in the UK have had a few court shoes (pumps) and ankle boots like this over the last few months.

TK Maxx has some really nice pointy-toe black patent court shoes by French Connection, and these are absoloutely flat with perhaps a raise of 4 or 5 mm only.

>> I have my heart set on pair of Mary Janes that are a little more plain in comparison to these though. <<

Try Barratts, or for the lower end of the market, either Shoefayre or Shoe Zone (formerly Olivers).

With a dial-up modem it was dead easy to change your service provider; just sign up with someone else, change the dial-up settings, and the email settings and off you go. With broadband, you have a lot more work to do, as you have probably signed some sort of agreement with the provider, and it may have a minimum term or long period of notice. It may also require BT to change some settings at their end if you want to change your ADSL provider, and especially if you are with NTL, they have rather got you by the short and curlies as they use their own proprietory cable system. You are double whacked if you also get your TV, and normal phone line from them as a "package". NTL "broadband" is only 128K as standard, when everyone else offers 576K as standard. Total bar stewards.

Over the weekend in London, so many high heels that, joined end-to-end they must be a few kilometres long!

Damn, I was in London on Feb 7th and 8th, no Internet access since the evening of Feb 6th. I wish you'd posted that message a day earlier! One place that I was going to go to, was a shop in Croydon, but I missed doing it, as the time spent travelling there and back from the centre of London couldn't be justified for just one place, when I had a long list of things to do. Even so, then I only managed to get to about half of the places I had on my list. London is sooo big. Only on day 2 did I discover a map listing nearly all the shops of interest (The London Fetish Map - free in several fetish type retailers). Armed with the map, I was then slowed down by going back to areas I had been the day before, just to visit one extra place on my new found list. I hoped to find a nugget, but for some on the list there was nothing of interest, and it was wasted time. Next time, I can miss those out.

However, a walk down Islington High Street found three or four shops (unplanned) with some very interesting stuff (some designer, and second-hand-designer shops), including a pair of purple boots, that were patterned, embossed leather over the foot, and lower leg, turning into a stiff jeans or canvas material, mostly dark purple, higher up. They had 4.5 inch half metal heels (and possibly a metal toe cap?), and were UK size 7 (my size is usually UK 6.5, or EUR 39.5 or EUR 40). I didn't see the designers name (someone go get a picture of them, please, in the window of the Stone shop). They were reduced in the sale from GBP 575 to GBP 199, so still out of my league by a long way. All the staff were quite young, and a lot of kids in the shop, otherwise I would have just had to try them on.

Just down the road in Second Mano some long, knee-high granny boots, with a 4.5 inch heel, which was square and very straight. The heel looks very high. The boots laced up at the front, but were also sewn together; entry and exit therefore being by side zip only. Another EUR size 39 opportunity, at GBP 110, but having been re-soled (not too brilliantly I think), not for me (a quiet shop, but with a mother and young daughter as staff, I didn't hang around long).

Hmm, you mentioned Kit shoes. These are sold in most of the UK home shopping catalogues, and therefore also in the many cataogue returns stores which are dotted all over the country, where prices are sometimes much lower then the catalogue original price. For the Kit shoe images they must use models with smaller feet, as the heels are always lower than they look in the picture. Many of them are only 3 or 3.5 inches high, only a few reach 4 inches (at size 6 -7, here). I don't think they do anything over 4 inches at all.

I can confirm that heels are big in London, having been there for the weekend. The shops have lots in stock, and the girls are buying them and wearing them.

The two styles of the moment are:

Pointy-toe ankle boots (just covering the foot, or with a short (usually tight) shaft), with a heel (usually quite thin, often a square heel, a very few with a half metal heel) around 3.5 to 4.5 inches high.

Sandals with either a closed toe, or one thin strap across the toes, a thin vertical strap up the back of the foot, and a high ankle cuff with either laces or buckles to secure. Heel height mostly from 3 inch to 4.25 inch (though I have seen a version with a 5 inch heel in a newspaper picture, I never saw those in any shops). The shops also have lots with a zip up that back-strap, but these aren't seen much on the street. Again, a few with a metal heel, but not many.

Hmm. Tut Tut. We really must not judge other people. It is their choice what they wear. Yes, some people attempt heels that are too high, and, yes, some people wear only flats. However, while in London at the weekend, I saw some girls wearing some really smart shoes with interesting designs that were totally flat, pointy toe courts, with little straps across the toes and little cut outs in the body of the shoe. Variety is the spice of life, I think the old adage goes.

I would recommend to get something a little bit higher to wear around the house, and wear the slightly lower block heels when you go out; in which case you could have stilettos for indoor use if you wanted to.

Be careful exactly what cleaning agent you do use to remove the glue, and where it goes. I tried getting some glue off a shoe once, and got some cleaner on the shoe upper. It attacked the colouring (gold coloured leather) quite badly in a small patch.