Big Foot

Popped out to the local shopping centre to visit Clarks shoe shop so I could get the boy's feet measured (his mother had asked me since I was on holiday). As usual, the wee yin drew smiles from all the women around and I'm convinced that if I'd left him alone for 20 seconds, he'd have been abducted by one of them. Anyway, the last time I bought him shoes, he was a 4.5 F in both feet (this is bordering on bra sizes methinks), this time the young lassie told me he was now a 5 F in the left foot and still a 4.5 in the right. The worry is.. what happens if he keeps growing JUST in the one foot??? ;)

But at £30 for a pair of shows I can barely get my fingers into? How the hell do they justify that, especially when he'll only be in them for a few months? £30 would be the upper limit for buying shoes for MYSELF so the amount of material they must save when making smaller shoes must equate to cheaper prices.. surely?

Nope, just another proof that the toddler industry is a money-grabbing whore :)