When I was a teenager working in a shoe shop, we occassionally had customers say they’d never shop at us for spurious reasons.
The managers always just said OK, goodbye.
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If it was their cheapest pizza, that sounds about right, I’m afraid. If you’re prepared to pay more, the supermarkets’ posher pizzas are usually not too awful. Nothing amazing, but perfectly ok.
(M&S, of course, do the nicest, but they do the nicest of everything.)
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and M&S are nearer to parity on pricing since the others have raised their prices
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I’m almost certainly going so it would be great to meet up again.
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I think there’s a fair bit of regional variation. Out where I am, a lot of small local businesses only moved away from having a minimum card payment value thanks to Covid, and card payment for buses was only implemented before the event. Although there is a coffee place here now that is card only payment, which was a bit of a shock.
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Oh, more incentive, thank you! I’ll do my best to make it.
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I just won a £100 gift card for Xero shoes. That makes my choice a bit easier!
Forgot I entered their monthly competition.
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Get the prios then. My concern about durability is that the soles wear out walking on pavement. If you’re just wearing them to the gym, they’ll last.
Another Xero report: I wore my xero hiking shoes (daylight fusion hiker. Xero claims its a boot. It’s only a boot by minimalist footwear standards.) on our recent camping trip. they were fine – one of the insoles wouldn’t stay in place, the other does. They’re comfortable, they have heavy enough soles to make it less painful to walk on sharp rock, but still provide some flexibility and ground feel. They’re heavy, at least in comparison to the prios and the sandles I wear, (they way only a couple ounces more than my daughter’s conventional sneakers, which are rather smaller).
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Yeah I’m leaning towards the Prios but my size are currently out of stock.
Having said that I’m not confident I actually know my actual shoe size. With walking shoes and casual boots I’ve bought in the past I’ve had to try multiple pairs and they never match the sizes of other shoes I own.
Do you find the Prios true to size?
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I am a US size 11[1], with slightly wider than normal toes, and a narrow heel. I used to wear boots a lot, because I could get ones that fit my toes and then lace them so the heel was not sliding around. the size 11 Prio fits just fine, plenty of space for the toes to spread out and flex into the ground, and I can lace the top of the tongue tight enough to keep the heel from flopping. The Xero boot require more fiddling with the laces to get right, but they are true to size as well.
[1] according to my shoes, and also the Brannock Device. Get your feet measured (or measure them yourself ) at shoe store. Read the instructions for the Brannock Device, it’s a bit more complicated than you might think, because it measures not just overall length and width, but heel to ball of foot. That determines where you will want the shoe to bend as you walk, and it’s often a different size than the overall length would imply. if they’re within 1/2 size, you just go for the bigger one. More than that, you’re in ‘my feet are weird’ land, and I don’t know what the right action is, other than “try damn shoes on all the time”.
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Just booked the ticket for myself and my partner so we’ll see you there!
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Went to the POETRY PHARMACY at Oxford Circus (1st floor of a Lush soap shop) where they sell you poetry in pill bottles.
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I had the misfortune last week of having my phone running out of battery and also forgot my book when I was coming home from Central London. As the kids call it, I “rawdogged” the whole hour commute home and it was pleasant. I still cannot imagine doing it on a 6 hour flight with just the flight map in front of you
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Why would you watch the flight map more than a minute or two goes beyond me. And I love a map.
I’d rather watch some movie poorly. Or try to have a snooze.
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Today I learned–uh realized–that writing lengthy texts on this forum all the time, has helped provide me with a (suddenly and surprisingly) job relevant skill oO. I had no idea writing words could be just as important (and even fun) in my line of work as writing code. Who knew?
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TIL having yap sessions is good for you
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As you get more experienced, being able to write clearly becomes ever more important.
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Since June I’ve been doing software planning, requirements and design. It’s a lot of document writing!
While I’m eager to get on with some coding (especially given the timescales) it’s been so satisfying writing a handful of concise technical documents that I’m proud of but additionally get good feedback from the reviewers.
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I got a job because one of hiring people recognized my name from a technical mailing list we were both on. Because, as was related to me by my manager, “he can tell morons they’re doing moron things with out them getting mad at him .”
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It’s looking likely I’ll be in Teddington early December for a training course.
Does anyone know anything fun to do in the evenings?
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