It's not about shoes this time.

Today, a special foot treat for me...condoms filled with baby powder. Cloud-walking.

but, eventually, this will get icky, blatham.

I think you must set foot constraints aside and run free...

until, of course you hit the cobblestones..

then you must choose.

for me, it was Nike Air Max. Rare on a woman in Italy when I was there that first time in '88. In fact, I doubt there was another woman in those shoes in the whole country. My feet sang out as wrong, on the streets of Rome.

But hey, they were comfortable. Woman in silk tweed jacket and James River Trader's trousers plus beret, that'll throw 'em... and the damn shoes.

Still I am sure I walked a hundred miles in the eight days..

Since then of course I have Nike doubts.

but I liked being able to walk ten miles on stone... given my particular feet.

My socks ALWAYS are the color of my trousers, I am a bit anal abt that.

One pair worn only once before they are washed (and yes, ironed) before I will wear them again.

They have to be pure cotton (even in winter I can't wear wollen socks) and preferably "Pringle" - I find them so comfy

IRONED??????

Old habit - mom tells me that it prevents then from losing their shape

Osso

Be assured - G certainly doesn't iron his own socks!

Gray crew socks. They are almost at the point where I can tell which is the right and which the left sock.

In shoes, in socks, in all things...comfort first.

isn't filling a condom with 'baby' powder, counter reproductive?

not quite; in sexual maters, you might just want to seek some advice! - it doesn't involve your feet!

bogo, not necessarily so, plenty of foot fetishists would disagree...

well yeah, but he was going on about "comfort", eh?

well, yeah, i guess we all have different interpretations of comfort...

don't make me start talking about pedicures.

feet and comfort ... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

no, no, Beth;

we were looking for a Blatham 'cure'!

but i want to talk about that lovely foot bath
ahhhhhhhh
the vibrating chair
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
with the controls they let me have
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
the calf and foot massage
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

forget about blatham. what is he but the owner of some respectable socks?
can he give you a good pedicure?

hey, i read the part about blatham ironing his socks, and i thought to myself, well, we all have rituals that we do to keep ourselves sane. and, i confess to never having considered ironing my socks, let alone having them match, and come to think of it, i don't even own an iron... but if i think about it long enough, i'm sure i have some rituals that others would be scratching their heads about.

isn't superG the ironer? or, actually, the owner of ironed socks

ebeth, i didn't know pedicures involved massage. i thought they just cut, filed and painted your toenails. i'd better reconsider this...

oops, i meant gautum.