Shoe Event Horizons
I accidentally bought eight pairs of shoes while in Australia.
Four of them were for my mother though, so I wasn't entirely out of my mind. And they were from charity. And they were brand new from a store that went bankrupt and donated the leftover stock. And they had been $105 a pair in the store that went bust. And I got them for $5 for a pair from the charity.
So everybody won and really I was just doing my part for the economy and charity and my mother.
But then! A terrible dilemma!
What to do about the excess luggage fees?
Seemples! As the meerkat says. I left half my clothes in Oz.They were summer clothes. I don't really need that many of them in England anyway.
I'm really hoping someone picks up jnicholson's brilliant idea of a coat exchange for ex-pat Antipodeans. She suggested we could all leave our winter coats at Heathrow Terminal 3 (because it's always Terminal 3) when we head for Australia and NZ, and while we're away visitors coming this way could use them for a fee! Brilliant, yes? Yes it is. Especially as a warm winter coat is half the bloody luggage allowance for a long haul flight and who wants to wear the damn thing while you're transiting through Bangkok?
I mention all these shoes just now as we're going out celebrate K's birthday (belated) tomorrow and guess what I don't have?
The right kind of shoes.
Four of them were for my mother though, so I wasn't entirely out of my mind. And they were from charity. And they were brand new from a store that went bankrupt and donated the leftover stock. And they had been $105 a pair in the store that went bust. And I got them for $5 for a pair from the charity.
So everybody won and really I was just doing my part for the economy and charity and my mother.
But then! A terrible dilemma!
What to do about the excess luggage fees?
Seemples! As the meerkat says. I left half my clothes in Oz.They were summer clothes. I don't really need that many of them in England anyway.
I'm really hoping someone picks up jnicholson's brilliant idea of a coat exchange for ex-pat Antipodeans. She suggested we could all leave our winter coats at Heathrow Terminal 3 (because it's always Terminal 3) when we head for Australia and NZ, and while we're away visitors coming this way could use them for a fee! Brilliant, yes? Yes it is. Especially as a warm winter coat is half the bloody luggage allowance for a long haul flight and who wants to wear the damn thing while you're transiting through Bangkok?
I mention all these shoes just now as we're going out celebrate K's birthday (belated) tomorrow and guess what I don't have?
The right kind of shoes.