still not over the novelty that is Warm Feets

Okay. So. A little while ago now I convinced myself that I was Bored of the amount of darning slipper socks seem to take, and the way they slip down, and and and, and consequently decided that the Manitobah Tipi moccasins might in fact be A Thing I Wanted. A mildly terrifyingly expensive Thing I Wanted, sure, but with the distinct advantages of being (1) Indigenous-owned and designed, (2) very clear about where their manufacture takes place and the origins of the materials they use, (3) pretty, and (4) designed for much colder weather than we get over here. Additionally and furthermore, they combined the key features of slipper socks (no rigid sole; grippiness) with those of slippers (no falling down!) with none of, from my perspective, the downsides.

So I took a deep breath and asked one of my Canadians to buy me a pair and reship them to me (on the basis that if you're outside Canada you gotta use the US site, where the prices are all the same as the Canadian site but in USD not CAD, including the $75 shipping, which would for a single pair of slippers take me over the Probably Customs Duty threshold -- which would not be the case if I got cheaper reshipping from a Canadian.

So I arranged all that! ... and then I had the NHS headache service appointment in which I discovered that I was not going to have to pay for the CGRP monoclonal antibodies out of pocket, and promptly blew half the money I'd had earmarked for the first month's worth of drugs on a pair of waterproof Tamarack.

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In conclusion: boots superlative, slippers Pretty Damn Good, my feet are warm, and subject to Sam Vimes' Boots Theory I cannot recommend them highly enough. I am now on their mailing list, I am periodically going back to coo over everything else they sell but have not yet decided I actually want more, and I have already convinced A that he wanted a pair of his own. Those arrived shortly after we got back so have not yet been subjected to their stress-testing, but come June I will update you all on how they do for him...