01 Monday Nov 2010
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The last time I posted this (three years ago) it was a cold and wet November morning, but today couldn’t be more different. Bright and shiny and going up to 20º – and up to 27º by the end of the week! So it looks like I can carry on wearing sandals for awhile yet. Mind you, the last time I posted this it was three weeks into November…
Anyhow, just love this song, so thought I’d share it with you all again.
With a nod to Thomas Hood.
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23 Tuesday Feb 2010
This one is for ismarah… 😉
The other day I was complaining talking about wet feet and mentioned my small but select footwear collection, which consists of two pairs of Camper shoes and 3-4 pairs of Mephisto sandals of various ages. I’ll never forget the first pair of Mephistos I bought. They looked so comfortable (and cute!) but the price tag was more than somewhat daunting. But my friend convinced me to try them on and I knew right then and there that I was never going to take them off (well, you know what I mean). That was about ten years ago. Since then I have bought one new pair of Mephistos every spring, relegating the older ones to “second best”, “beach” and “rain” sandals.
I missed getting a pair last year because the ones I’d bought spring 2008 didn’t end up getting worn much that year due to that cancer thing that mostly kept me at home May-December … but I sure wore those 2008 babies out last year! And so, after my awful hospital day yesterday I was walking home through the shopping district after leaving Maria Paz at the bus station and spotted these guys. And I knew. These are going to me my 2010 Mephistos. The black ones.
Right after I score a few more classes and my first tapas tour…
18 Thursday Feb 2010
Posted in health & happiness, home, sevilla, shoes, weather
Here I sit all sniffly. Have foregone my pilates class this morning because I didn’t think going out into The Rain with already wet sneakers would do my shivery self any good, nor would my head take very kindly to hanging upside down with its current plugged-yet-drippy sinus condition. So damn. I probably should have got some cheap rain boots last October. Getting two colds in one winter is pretty much unheard of around here. I blame wet feet.
Keeping my feet dry has become an ISSUE. It’s bad enough having the clothesrack almost constantly set up in the livingroom, but once shoes get soaked it’s very hard to dry them out properly when the humidity is stuck at 100%. My only other pair of wearable shoes (an old favourite pair of Campers) have cracks in the soles, which cannot be seen but which let the rain seep in quite nicely. I didn’t want to invest in a new pair of shoes this year in case it was MY LAST WINTER, and now sandal weather should be back by the end of the month. So nothing really left to do about it but complain. 😉
Rain, rain, go away …
22 Thursday Oct 2009
It’s been raining all week!
Been drying laundry on the clothesrack indoors, finally had to get out the duvet (not the big winter one yet, but still…). If this keeps up I’m going to have to start wearing shoes – and it’s not even November! I am soooo not ready for winter. 😦
What’s the weather doing where you are?
16 Saturday Feb 2008
Posted in clothing, life stuff, sevilla, shoes
Today is the first time I’ve worn sandals this year … just a bit later than last year. But I haven’t been out a lot in the afternoons lately and mornings & evenings are still a bit coolish. Anyhow, it felt wonderful, though as it was a last minute decision I didn’t have time for ‘happy toes’, so I will have to start painting my toenails cherry red again. 🙂
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