Mrs P and I are still going on our daily walks through the town and gardens and along the beach. The weather is nice. There is a chill in the air and a stiff breeze coming off the sea. It’s nothing that will keep us off the prom. Our jackets keep us warm. But it does keep other, less hardy people off the prom and beach, which is how we like it. I’ve ordered a new jacket today, perfect for our walks in autumn. It’s actually a gilet, and I got a good discount on it. I’ll be posing in my new purchase along the prom by Friday.
It would have been better had Trump died, don’t you think? Well, he may yet come undone by the virus, but survival rates are pretty good when you’re a president. It’s not that I wish harm on people generally. But it’s possible to look objectively at a situation and to see how an unfavourable outcome for one individual might lead to a better outcome for everyone else. For example, the Samaritans didn’t really need to know about the goings-on in Berlin bunkers circa 1945, and Clive Stafford Smith might not have taken on Saddams case in the Noughties.
A lot of the High Street deserves to die out, I’m sad to say. Too many retailers lurch from one insolvency to the next with no real hope of ever returning to a state of fiscal viability. But I will miss Debenhams department stores if they bite the dust. And they will. But far more distressing is the possibility that Clarks might disappear. I love Clarks. I do not own a pair of shoes made by any other company.
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If Clark’s do go belly up you will be sole searching for evermore.
One of my uncles was a salesman and then representative for the company, many of their shoes were hand made in Kilkenny in the ‘80’s. As both of us had similar size feet I wore a lot of new styles of shoes in my twenties. I even had blue suede skies with tassels. I agree they were very comfortable.
Here in Canada I find it difficult to get comfortable shoes most of them are made in China.
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The story really suggests that, for the time being anyway, it’s the stores that are in imminent danger. The shoes will go on. Forever, I hope.
We went to Clarks Village in Somerset a few years ago, where the shoe brand was born. It’s an outlet centre for lots of other brands too, but still has a museum for the shoe company in the original building.
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You’ve got it covered. First you present us with a picture of normality like it was in the good old days. Then you get us back to reality comparing our governments in this crisis. Who know about the merchants whether they deserve to survive or not.
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