The What's Annoyed You Today Thread

[GrumpyGregry]

That'll be the fashion detector then (as used by the fashion police). Time to get with it GG

nowt wrong with my Churchill's. Quality is never out of fashion

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

nowt wrong with my Churchill's. Quality is never out of fashion

Hasn't Churchill been dead for 50 years? You got his Top Hat too?

 

[Profpointy]

nowt wrong with my Churchill's. Quality is never out of fashion

Churchill's ?

Church's perchance?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Churchill's ?

Church's perchance?

Loakes, as it happens.

 

[Profpointy]

Loakes, as it happens.

Good choice. Their top range, full leather linings and generally extra niceness is perhaps the best value on the market at maybe £200 these days. Sadly they've stopped making my favourite brogues now, so I've been forced into Crockett and Jones - which are admittedly even nicer, but a lot more money. Still would have preferred the old Loake Lydneys.

 

[midlife]

John Lobb do some nice footwear

Shaun

 

[Profpointy]

John Lobb do some nice footwear

Shaun

a bit too poncey-looking for me, which is just as well !

 

[Profpointy]

The problem with both Loakes and John Lobb is that they don't do wide enough fittings for me. I need an H fitting (5/6E in US fitting terms) - and even then they may not be wide enough.

I'm lucky to have found a pair of Barker's that fit - but that was a struggle. I have thought about bespoke but I object to the prices that they charge.

Trickers are good for the wide fittings; as are Hoggs, who though the latter no longer make their own, do (re-) sell some rather good Northampton made wide country shoes under their own brand.

 

[speccy1]

All of us, or anyone in particular?

I appear to have suffered no annoyances today, however I am going to hang a new door when I get home, so that may change.

No not everybody, just seems that everything I say lately is wrong, I can do no right. Gives me no incentive to participate

 

[TVC]

No not everybody, just seems that everything I say lately is wrong, I can do no right. Gives me no incentive to participate

Not noticed it myself. Perhaps you're right and the other nobbers are wrong.

 

[speccy1]

Not noticed it myself. Perhaps you're right and the other nobbers are wrong.

whatever...............

 

[Katherine]

whatever...............

 

[TVC]

whatever...............

OK, so it is you.

 

[RichardB]

Trickers are good for the wide fittings; as are Hoggs, who though the latter no longer make their own, do (re-) sell some rather good Northampton made wide country shoes under their own brand.

The best shoes I ever had were Trickers. They must have lasted me (lasted me, ha ha) around 20 years before they died of old age. The place I got them doesn't do them any more, sadly.

I found a local cobbler who does proper shoe repairs and used to take the Trickers there about every 3 years to be re-soled. While I was in there once a chavvy local overheard my bill of £30. "Thirty effin' quid?" he said. "I can get brand new trainers for less than that!" I explained that I had the comfiest shoes ever, for a total cost of about £10 per year. I reckon that was a bargain.

 

[PaulB]

I had the 28 to 31 thing on Easter Sunday. Stuck at 50mph on a perfectly clear road with barely another car in sight. Pointless.

They have just turned the M6 near Manchester Airport in to a car park for the next two years as well.

You don't mean the M6 do you? It doesn't go near Manchester airport. Do you mean the M56?