Di.Poppitt
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
This is a bit light weight after reading of jabs for swine flu. However I digress, I was in town today walking toward the shoe repairer with my winter boots under my arm. I have always walked one side of a heel down and suddenly I could see my dad in his shed with three or four lasts on his bench and a sheet of leather, a knife that was honed to a thin lethal point and my shoes. I spent hours watching him and he always said just as he was finishing the heel repair ' here you are, this will make them last a bit longer' He took some little bits of steel off a card and tapped one into each of the heels, Today I laughed to myself as I thought about those 'segs' and how I'd scrape the heels across the floor and see the sparks fly up.