July 2024. Attercliffe. Sheffield.
A rare day at home in Sheffield (I spent more days in Waterbeach last month); an even rarer shopping expedition.
The Rieker slip-on purchased a year ago have, after 3,488 miles of use, finally worn through,
so it was finally time to take the tram back to Meadowhall and replace them with exactly the same make. But can you tell which is the new pair ?
Because my shopping expedition lasted all of 120 seconds* (20 seconds to say “Do you have a pair like this ?” (point to shoes), 20 for the assistant to retrieve a new pair, 20 to try them on and go “Yep“, and a minute to pay, I found myself with time free on the way home.
Not much on the way back from Meadowhall, but St Mars of the Desert was having their German style beer festival,
and despite SMOD not being quite my thing,
I felt I ought to persevere with Sheffield’s most celebrated keg microbrewery.
A two-thirds of the house Hells and a half of the D’or Mouse, served to my table by their lovely staff,
and undeniably “good” and tasty but also undeniably fizzy and bloating.
Attercliffe really needs some cask to make it up-and-coming,
but I think it may be a while yet.
*If women shopped like men shop we’d be 55.2% more productive as a nation.
retiredmartin 
Buy two pair. The price is only going up.
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Apparently not. Jacob Rees-Mogg said shoe prices would fall after Brexit.
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That was after the NHS got all that extra funding.
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What about my cheap shoes ?
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With the change in Clacton maybe you should have waited to buy. Things are in motion.
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Will you visit Clacton on a future UK trip and tell us if the pubs have improved ?
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Jacob Rees-Mogg said shoe prices would fall after Brexit. And queues in Wetherspoons !
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lol
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“If women shopped like men shop we’d be 55.2% more productive as a nation.”
You’ll be in trouble for saying that Martin, even though it’s undoubtedly true. Wait until you read my next blog post, which is being written at this very moment. You’ll see that it’s perfectly acceptable for women to make sexist comments and get away with it, where as when it’s the other way round?
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Mrs RM laughed. She may even have said it’s 59.4%.
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You are quite right about bloke shopping. Go in. Have they got what I want? Have they got it in my size? Both being positive, buy it. Leave.
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We’re doing it wrong, Bill.
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