Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Silver Linings

Work is incredibly hectic at present, with 13 hour days far from unusual.

An external training course (complete with exams to be passed) can't be postponed again, so there's nothing for it but to take a three days out. Always interesting to listen to the internal head of a given subject tell an external party what we do. We were fascinated.

Lot's to get sorted when I get back to the home office it seems.

With the motorway having been closed for much of the day, the traffic is only just starting to recover when we finish. It seems pointless to join the queues, so I decide to sit it out with a little bit of Christmas Shopping at a local retail park.

I promise I did get some presents, but a pair of cerise heels may also have called my name...

And it meant by the time I hit the motorway, the lanes were clear and my feet were happy.





5 comments:

Cal said...

Cute, very cute.

Says the woman who also may have purchased a not so dissimilar pair of red heels recently :-)

hugger steward said...

Do your bit for the environment! Buy pretty shoes!

1 i z said...

G you are a wise, wise man. Delaying my journey home until after the rush hour/traffic hell eased, will undoubtedly have reduced my fuel consumption...so yes my footprint is both prettier and lighter as a result :-)

(ignoring of course the embedded energy in the pwetty shiny shoes themselves and their shipping from Spain etc)

Cal said...

I'm sure they swam over themselves just for you.

(Mine came from China - I'm trying not to think about it)

1 i z said...

Hey Cal, maybe we can just focus on the positive spin that the Chinese manufacture of furniture for our European sized hoofers hopefully helps adjust the ambient cultural expectation, making a return to foot-binding a less and less likely possibility?

Ok I admit it, that's lamer than a three-legged donkey...