Shoe Saves #3 and #4: New Look Bow Heels and Primark Bow Flats PLUS Another Blogger Meet-up!

From tomorrow, from the 14th June 2013, I have one year to wear all of my shoes. Any pair I haven't worn by 13th June 2014, will be binned. 

First off, my apologies to Bex and Laura for taking forever to write their post. Clearly I was too busy sulking over their making fun of my accent *snooty face*

The 21st June was important for two reasons. Firstly, I managed to 'save' two pairs of shoes, albeit fairly similar ones. More importantly, however, I met up with Bex and Laura and ate lots of cake! Unfortunately we forgot to take any photographs and so you'll have to be content with lots of photos of me. Like usual.

On the train down, I texted them both and told them to look out for a girl that looked like she was on her way to a Christening. Hanna Whitehead, always over-dressed. It must have been fairly accurate though, because they did recognise me on sight. 

So we wandered off (this would later turn out to be the theme of the day) in the direction of food, ending up at Some Burger Place and the Hummingbird Bakery, where I ate half of the biggest slice of cake you have ever seen in your life. Seriously, it was taller than me...

... as Bex and Laura are now in a position to advise upon. I made the mistake of wearing new heels for a walking trip round London. Okay, look. I know that to most people, wearing any heels for a walking trip round London isn't the best idea in the world. I get it. But I'm used to this shit, and I've merrily traipsed round cobble-stoned Bakewell with not a single complaint. Go ask Ellie.

But yes, the point is that I had to change into my emergency flats and I am actually quite small. Ah well. The flats are very nearly identical, just a little bit grubbier, and at least it diminished the Christening-esque-ness. Yes, that is a word. More relevantly, they actually allowed me to walk without whimpering. 

And ohhhhh did we walk. Where to, I hear you ask. Well... nowhere! We set off to look for a bookshop and while I now realise that I could have just looked up the closest one on my phone and headed off with a purpose, we just decided to walk and find one. Which we didn't. We did find two or three Chanel stores and lots of cyclists decided to dislike me for no reason, but no bookshops. We'll just have to make up for it when they come to Leeds!  

Everyone, Bex and Laura are amazing. Come to think of it, so are Bex's family. She had baby Benjamin, who was impeccably well-behaved, and her younger sister Claire (also well-behaved :p) and we later met up with two of her sisters. You know how sometimes you're with certain people and you can just completely relax and be yourself, with no awkward silences or small-talk? Yeah, that. I felt so utterly content when I left them both that I'm actually surprised it never ocurred to us to meet up sooner!

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Shoe Save #2: Irregular Choice Scottie Dog and a Blogger Meet-Up!

I have a lot to talk about with this post, but I figured we may as well get the shoes out of the way first. As a quick reminder:

From tomorrow, from the 14th June 2013, I have one year to wear all of my shoes. Any pair I haven't worn by 13th June 2014, will be binned.   

These are my ultimate favourite pair of shoes. Honestly, if I had to save one pair from a burning building, it would be an easy choice. I only wish I could make that choice so easily with books...

Anyway, they're quirky, very comfortable and have been known to make small children stop in the street to point at them (but I like them anyway, ha!). 

Everybody, meet... my Scottie Dog heels!


Irregular Choice make some quite... odd shoes, but they also make some simply amazing ones. There are these, but then I also have some with little plastic robots attached and another pair with unicorns and pink ribbon. I swear, I'm not making this up.

If you look closely at the photo below, you can see that the dog on one shoe has an orange leash that carries on and matches up to the bow on the other shoe.

Yeah, you can't actually see that at all, can you? Ah well.

This post is especially important because these are the shoes that I wore when I met Charlotte and Ellie today! I feel like a should put that on a plaque and create a special frame just to preserve the moment...

I sound sarcastic (in general, actually) but I actually had an amazing day. I knew Ellie was a great person to talk to because I've met her before, but not only can I now put a face to the Lit Addicted Brit, I also now know that she's great fun as well. I love them both so much, especially Ellie who traipsed all the way up from Derbyshire to see us.

We ate too much food and bought too many books, naturally. And blamed each other for the afore-mentioned books. Actually, that's not quite right, is it? Everybody blamed me for the afore-mentioned books! *goes off to a corner to cry*

I got really excited about the bottom book in the pile, Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy, by Paul Thomas Murphy. It's been on my wishlist for absolutely ages, but was too expensive even second-hand. When I saw it for £5 in Netflix today, I actually did a little squeal and explained to Ellie and Charlotte at great length how happy this event made me. Oops.

I think The Works was our downfall. You know it's bad when a staff member approaches you and asks if you need a basket. 

"Do you need a basket there, miss?"
"Oh no, I'm fine. Thank you though."
*glances down at armload of books*
"Are you sure? I can, like, go get you one..."

And then I had to buy a canvas bag to actually put them in, but the space between the end of my arms and the floor ended up being smaller than the bag, so I pretty much dragged it behind me like a child for the remainder of the day.

So that was my day and those were my shoes. Just a quick shout-out to Charlotte and Ellie to remind them that I want to snuggle them to bits for an awesome day today, and now I'm off to put away my millions of new books!

Click here to read about my Shoe Challenge!