xaphod

Since there was some interest in UKheel2002 on the other board, I thought I would add one of the pictures which has gone missing and say 'hi' to heelfan.

The pic was taken outside what used to be some of the old stables for the many horses which kept London going. The stables are now part of the Camden Lock shopping area.

Xa

I suppose I have shortened tendons now, having worn heels openly for 5 years and Bertulli lifts for the previous 7 or 8. I too like hill walking (going down is great ! ), but I find a great help is to put one of the Bertulli wedges from inside a worn-out pair, in my hiking boots. That gives me possibly a 1 1/2" lift which makes all the difference. About knee pain .... because I have girly legs, these are relatively light compared with the rest of my body .... 17" neckband, 42" chest, 34" waist, I have to be careful about overloading them. I find bicycling regularly (every day if possible) keeps the joints moving at angles other than that for high heels, blows out the clag from the cardiovascular system, and absorbs the calories ingested by beer drinking ! Xa

Highguy,

I have just had a very pleasant conversation with a ex-Kenyan farmer over lunch in a pub.

I dropped into the library on the way home to get some books for the weekend and have a heel board fix. There is a kids reading creche with lots of mums 15 feet away.

I'm wearing these:-

Yes, there have been a few glances, but nobody yet has lynched me.

Xa .... highguy, have a look at your private messages

.... you wear 3 3/4" steel-tipped stilettos and wonder why everything is still quiet ! Xa

.... you adjust the length of your new leather trousers to account for 5" heels. Xa

I had an American woman ask to take my picture a couple of months ago. Since she was polite and didn't appear to be a gutter press paparazzo, I was quite happy to oblige.

Xa

On one of our shopping trips in London, a girl walked into the security loop in the door of a shop as she was distracted by my heels.

Xa

Tell us which part of the world you are in. If you are anywhere near us, join in at out meetings. Xa

Dust. .... it's having a rest from Elgar. Xa

Kids say what they think, normally very loudly. That's a verbatim regarding my 5" Western Ranch boots. Years ago, I would have wished the ground to swallow me up, but now I'm not bothered. Mum was more embarassed than anyone else because she had to dream up a reply a bit quick. She just suggested that I wore the heels to be a bit taller. Just to add to the fun the little girl (I suppose about 5 or 6 years old) started to walk around the supermarket on tiptoe to try out the feeling ! I suspect that there will be some 'I want' going on in that household for a while ! Xa ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BTW, mum appeared to be the sort of woman, well off middle class who wears comfortable as opposed to elegant clothes. I guess she wouldn't be seen dead in heels, except maybe 3" courts at the Guildford Symphony Orchestra !

GUYS I'm missing out on some damn fine sailing weather to do this heely thing .... MORE EFFORT REQUIRED PLEASE ! Xa

Right .... Thursday evening curry is definite .... presently backfiring on an over-enthusiastic chilli I made for lunch. I'll roll up the motorway on Thurs afternoon .... we can co-ordinate final landing time by text. Xa

Hey, SQ, Horrendously high Swedish income tax rates stop me stone dead. Xa

Hey, TS, What age are your students, and do they comment on your heels? If they are teenagers and they don't make fun of you, they must be much more civilised than most of the kids in the UK ! Xa

Good Friday is fine for me, or any day up to and including Tuesday 22nd. Before and after that, I can't juggle things. Xa

This is a wierd one. My usual block boots....

have started to give me blisters on the top of my big toe.

The heel fitting is still firm, the sole is worn but serviceable and the heel tip has been re-inforced using 'Segs' (proprietry metal tips), but what is giving me the blister is the internal lining which has worn through next to the internal toe cap ....

DAMN DAMN DAMN

I have not ordered from them, but I have visited their shop with the other Dutch and Belgian heelies.

I think they are an honest supplier and that you should have no problems ordering from them. There might be problems with the post or customs, but these are out of the shop's control. If you order by credit card and something goes wrong with the shipping, then you can claim from the card company.

I think they would not like the bad publicity they would get from us if they started to rip people off !

Xa

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it !

.....George Bernard Shaw

I definitely don't like people wearing my heels. I hate smelly feet and keep mine very clean .... I suppose you could call it a fetish. When the bacteria that cause smelly feet are introduced into a shoe, that's it, the little buggers are there for evermore, so your nice smelling shoes won't be for long. So, if I wear my shoes with smelly feet and infect them, then, OK, it's my fault, but if someone else makes them smelly, then they are rapidly going to lose my friendship ! Xa

Laurie, I saw a simpler explantion.... Life is like a toilet roll .... the more you unroll it, the faster it unwinds !

My mum (bless her cotton socks) was the French, History and Latin influence in our otherwise scientific family. Having lived in Charleroi (French-speaking Belgium) for a while in 1947, she had this to say about French .... "Love the language .... can't say the same for the people" .... and on subsequent visits there in the 60s and 70s "Ye Gods, they dress so dowdily, not like after the war" Xa

Wed 16th onward suits me. Xa

When I was at home, I did some unofficial DIY while my parents were out and made a floorboard to be easily liftable. Otherwise it is easy to find plenty of space behind the panels around the sides of the bath. The screws have domed covers which unscrew to reveal a conventional woodscrew. The best hidey-hole I have heard of is inside a juke-box. A guy I emailed with bought a big juke-box which he kept in his study (den). The lower half is normally quite empty ..... maybe an amplifier and a speaker there but still plenty of fresh air which can be better used as shoe space. Thinking about it, if you are prepared to put up with lower-fi and you are like me, and believe that with loudspeakers there is no substitute for cubic feet (no pun intended ! ), then you should be able to get a few pairs inside your speaker cabs. Xa

Hi, Guys,

You must remember that there are a lot of people out there with more money than sense.

Of the Beckhams, I think that Victoria's husband has more brains, and him being a football ace, that doesn't say much !

Certain famous brand names, Gina and Prada, for example charge the earth for usually good quality goods. The cachet in wearing these goods seems to be in the fact that the wearer is rich enough to afford them.

When Calv and I were doing the London sales, we went to Harrods, so as I could check out the Prada boots in the sales. In size EU40, they had been reduced from about £500 to £225, but in size 39 Calv found a pair reduced from £3250 to £1150 (ish). So yours truly tried on the expensive pair and found that they had a fit like a pair of rubber waders .... HORRIBLE, but I suppose great for a woman with telegraph pole legs.

We wondered why the great difference in price, the only difference being that the more expensive pair had slightly softer leather.

Hi, Trolldeg, I peeled up the insole which I found to be leather. The lining looks to be the same material. Xa