This weekend has been busy ... hence my lack of blog presence. Hope you all had a good one too ?
Today, was the dreaded day of going "school shoe" shopping .... how it is arduous, full of peril, boredom and general expense.
Today, was no exception.
The key to school shoe shopping for the Autumn term, is to leave it as late as possible. If you are not a parent of a school age child, or never been one, you may wonder why ...
If, however, you are, or have been, you will understand.
Summer hols .... they grow ... they grow more than they do at any other time of the year. Proven fact.
So, buy too early and you're bound to discover that they have a growth spurt a week after you've bought them. Aim to buy at the last minute, will guarantee a lack of availability.
We're off on hols next week ... so it was today, or never.
Diligently, we got a ticket from the queuing system ... 10 numbers ahead of where they were dealing with, patiently we waited ... and waited ... and waited .... ffs, how hard is it to fit a pair of shoes on a child's feet ...
And then it was our turn .... my speedy aim ... was thwarted, by DD's feet .... 15 pairs of shoes later, and we have a pair, which almost fits ... the sales assistant, was patience unlimited, all of the staff were run off their feet, politeness unlimited .... I, on, the other hand, suggested to DD that I could either bind her feet, let her go to school barefoot, or cut a foot off ...
I would not like to be a shoe sales person pre-school .... it was horrible.
I consoled myself, with new nail varnishes to compensate ;)
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