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I'm teaching Mrs F. to play the violin. Anyone else tried to teach their partner an instrument? I started with good intentions and said to myself, no it's not going to be like teaching my wife to drive.....

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I'm a bit loth to say I'm up for it because I said that last time and then didn't come. Any of suggestions 1 -3 sound fine, although a one in the South East would be easier.

I'll have to try it. Buying shoes is a rush, I think it's the thing of going into an all women changing area. I wouldn't want anyone to look at me an think I was a perv. When I bought my first women's jeans it was on a market stall and they were only a fiver, so it didn't matter. The trader's patter went something like "Here's a girl who can see a bargain..." I was waiting, but he went unusually quiet. It's funny when you get one of these loud types completely on the back foot.

I like New Look stretch jeans, especially since their size 12 fits me. Does anyone try stuff on in womens' only shops? I don't think I'd have the guts.

Hey, I'm getting a little bit higher. I didn't expect that to happen when I started.

Great book, shame about the title. The book that changed my life though is Homecoming by John Bradshaw, together with about two years of counselling. It cost money, but more than that was the time and emotional effort. But, I just couldn't go on as I was, I just had to change my life whatever the cost. I was forty and defeated, my marage broke up, but all I heard about myself was "How do you expect that I want to make love to you when you're so fat & unattractive". I believed that about myself and that was how everyone else saw me. You've believed some nonsense about yourself and that's what you show the world, and it's time to stop!!!

I must say those are wonderful gloves. Next to nylons gloves are the perfect compliment to high heels. I was going to put a post about my love of opera gloves on the forum but wasn't sure which forum to post it. I know what I want when Mrs. F goes shopping!

I can see I'm going to have problems. I lent my lap top to my daughter because she needed to use a pc not a mac for a piece of work she had. She gave it back a month later and distainfully told me she couldn't use it because it had such an old operating system. How do you know I've got windows 98 anyway?

I second that! Good advice NikkiHH. I was looking at your reply to my post and decided to read some more of what you'd written because the poor me, I'm ugly and can't get a woman came over so strongly. You've got to change the habits and thought patterns of a lifetime. They've been so strongly ingrained, but you have to do it. Getting rid of that line is a good first step, now replace it with something positive.

Until I started looking at this site I thought pumps were another name for daps, what kids in the north of England did their PT in before trainers were invented.

Is it worth me ever getting a digital camera? It sounds like you need a degree in nuclear physics to work it.

I put the telly on about once every six weeks. I take it the Fern you're talking about isn't the one on Can't cook won't cook or was it ready steady cook...

There's something I should have mentioned when I was posting. Actually I was thinking about it today. Is there any difference between a court and a pump, or is it an example of the common language that divides us. I tried on a nice pair of courts (or were they pumps) today in a shop called Zucchi. I had charming service, the two assistants were all over me like a rash, probably weren't used to male customers. Shame they pinched a bit.

I'd take issue with Heelfan. Clogs with leather uppers and wooden soles were the everyday footwear of people in nineteenth century northern England and certainly not a debased version of the footwear. Mrs F. dances North West morris in the very same clogs. In fact the reaason why I didn't get to the Bristol Heel Meet. My dad had a pair for gardening, they had a buckle instead of the lace up and certainly were the genuine article. They were very old when I saw them back in the 1960's. Here's the website of the person Mrs. F regards as the best clog maker in England.

http://www.apriori.net/paz/st.html

Ok, there's a lot of people with minority interests posting on this site. I just play the music.

I get the idea. Anyone got the snaps back from the chemist yet?

Oh dear there's a bit of drunken posting for you! Getting a bit handy with the double click.

What are earth shoes? Are they like moon boots?

What are earth shoes? Are they like moon boots?

Hey, those are nice shoes, I managed to see them. Where did you get them? They look v. expensive. Mrs. F was impressed too. She wants them!!!

I'm so sorry I couldn't make it, sounds like a great day out. Hopefully next time. F

Sorry everybody, it wasn't the brightest thing to start a post and then go away on holiday. Had a nice time in France, with a little shoe shopping thrown in. Shyguy, sorry for the lack of pictures, I will have to work on that one. I searched the internet (for a short while) but to no avail. When I get a digital camera I'll be boring you all with pictures of my purchases until the novelty wears off. Nigel, I take your point about Harold and Hilda. We don't have matching anoraks yet.