The day Dolce and Gabbana decided to go their separate ways…

Powering ahead whilst looking back.

People with issues #278

Steve was entranced. She was gorgeous – & they even had the same taste in footwear. It was love at first sight.

People with issues #264

After Pippa saw the price of the matching shoes & handbag she decided to take a more “DIY” approach.

View from a Rhino House: “He ain’t heavy, he’s….”

An un-named Chinese local official photographed being given a piggyback by a villager while visiting flood victims in Zhejiang province was sacked on Monday, after the image caused public outrage online, PRC media reported on Monday.

The picture was posted on microblogging site Sina Weibo in the wake of Typhoon Fitow, according to the Xinhua news agency. The text accompanying it said the official had received the piggyback because “He was wearing expensive shoes.” (Fashionistas, eh?)

He has been fired him from his position as director of the construction office in nearby Sanqishi Township, Xinhua reported.

In a rather bizarre twist to the story, a local government spokesman said that the villager had insisted on carrying the official across a pond rather than “Letting him remove his shoes & walk barefoot.” (Such civic pride!)

The Communist Party in the PRC has been engaging in a crackdown on official corruption & excess & while protest is still officially frowned-upon, greater access to the internet has given Chinese people a forum to publicize cases of abuse & criminality by officials.

Not as worn on the Long March….

Caring & sharing #144

Dear Agony Aunts

Ever since we married back in 2002, Pete has always been a sweet & loving husband. Nothing has been too much trouble to him in making my life as perfect & as happy as possible, even putting-up with my shoe obsession. Indeed he has always been very sweet about my little ways with shoes & has been good enough to buy me some of the more expensively gorgeous pairs as gifts on birthdays, anniversaries etc. Up until a week ago, I was “living the dream.”

Can you imagine my horror when I returned home last Thursday night, after a” girls evening-out” was called-off at the last minute, to find my “one-&-only” rolling around on the floor doing something unmentionable to my best pair of D&G’s? It appears I am not the only one in the family with a few “little ways” about my footwear.

It only took 30 minutes to have the little pervert packed & into a cab & the lawyers are taking care of all the details (including a much larger shoe allowance as part of the alimony settlement) but I am heartbroken. How the hell do I clean a pair of snakeskin D&G’s with sapphire detailing (short of sand-blasting them) to remove any traces of unwanted DNA before Saturday’s “Single’s Night” at the Yacht Club?

“Twinkle-toes”

Dear “Twinkle-toes”

Although we don’t have experience of this with quality footwear, we did once have a similar problem with a pair of old wellington boots – albeit in slightly different circumstances.

We found that a mixture of sea-salt, potash and lemon juice (in roughly equal proportions) removed even the slightest trace of unwanted material – even to the point where the finest forensic labs in the country weren’t able to pin a thing on us! If you apply the mix with a soft cotton cloth & allow to dry in the fresh air, you should be ready to dance the night away by the weekend.

Party like it’s 1999 (again)!

Aunts

 

Love can be no tougher….

Sorted #4

“Walk a mile in my shoes…..”