Annoying Christmas presents

[tabbypurr]

Haven't seen those in ages. The ones I saw took standard BC bulbs.

NT

[Harry Bloomfield]

Tim Lamb explained on 30/12/2016 :

I am the same, I hate getting involved in the present and card swapping silliness, but I have a new family this year who don't seem to understand this reluctance on my part :-(

I have everything I might possibly want in life, more is just surplus to my needs. I normally wonder round the house barefoot, but in a concession to being pestered to wear something - I bought three lots of slippers this year. The first two pairs lasted just weeks, before falling apart. I have been doing a lot of work in the house this year and needed something suitable for around the house and fit to trapes back and forward to my workshop in. I have found a pair of canvas topped deck shoes to be a reasonable compromise for this and reasonably hardy.

It is a well insulated warm house, the heating has been off all night and didn't fire much yesterday, yet it is still 16.5C at 7am. I got up early - too hot in bed. I'm just wearing a T shirt and a pair of slip on thin trousers, waiting to start work replacing more internal doors, the final two of the five.

[Harry Bloomfield]

If you feel the need, I could loan you one or two :D

[Graeme]

In message , Harry Bloomfield writes

No one has said the dreaded words Marks and Spencer yet. I too wear my slippers all day (with socks!), and traipse outside, shed, coal, garden etc., and M&S ordinary, boring, traditional slippers just keep on doing what they do best. I have at least three pairs, one of which is years old, and covered in paint. The only other maker I would buy is Dunlop.

The 'style' that fits a slippers and pipe image :

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Graeme writes

Ah yes. M+S mocassins. I only have one pair at a time so 12 months before they crack at the point of maximum flexure. They get a lot more use than just round the house... fetching baskets of logs, taxi trips to collect/deliver wife to station, securing farmyard gates last thing if it is not raining....

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[Mark Allread]

Try John Cotton boat-shoes. They are cheaper and just as good.

Like yours, mine get a fair bit of in and outdoor use.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I've never quite understood the concept of slippers - except to have clean shoes only to be worn indoors.

I suppose if your normal footwear is uncomfortable, you might want to get out of it ASAP. Some might have to wear such footware - like say boots or wellies - but most?

[Huge]

Some years ago, my wife expressed a desire for a dog. I conducted a long, very subtle and ultimately successful campaign to induce her to talk herself out of it.

[T i m]

Ours didn't. ;-(

We bought a couple of pairs a while back for, well, 'boating' and when we went boating the other day (for the first time in a long time) we dug them out.

The soles had turned from rubber into what felt like hard plastic and if you tried to flex them even slightly they shattered!

I've seen the same sort of thing across a wide range of shoes now (inc branded) so I'm wondering if it's the particular rubber or how they are stored (a reaction with something else possibly)?

Cheers, T i m

[ARW]

You might be on to something.

[Andrew]

Bottom sheet, duvet cover. Inside duvet cover is electric blanket secured (carefully) with nappy pins and then duvet on top, but also inside duvet cover.

Often wondered how other people did it.

[Andrew]

YES !!!.. But the location of heating wires are easy to feel and the nappy pins are at the very corners. Would help if the blanket manufacture made them with corner tags or tapes.

[Andrew]

If they exist, I would like some ??

[Andrew]

I still have a problem in cold weather where long socks slide down my legs. Those would work if they can grip around the leg above the knee.

[spuorgelgoog]

I find it's handy to have something to slip my feet into when going from bed to toilet etc.

People in *finished* houses might not need to bother, but in my place there's a significant risk to treading on something sharp or unpleasant underfoot.

Owain

[spuorgelgoog]

Piercings and magnets?

Owain

[Andrew]

I have one of these. They come in double and gigantic sizes.

Don't forget the nappy pins :-)

They power off after 12 hours which should be OK for most people, and it's easy to just set the slider to off and then back on for another 12 hours.

Put it on setting 8 an hour before bedtime and the bed is really toasty. Then you are supposed to set it back to setting 1 when you get in. If you forget and leave it at 8 then you certainly won't fall asleep by mistake, too hot.

[Tim Watts]

[Peter Andrews]

I simply said NO.

Peter

[tabbypurr]

Slippers, being soft & a bit furry are more comfortable than hard footwear. They also don't injure paws if one ever mis-treads.

NT