More shoes! More shoes!

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Linnea is destined to end up barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen, ok? Because I can't buy her shoes.

Yes, I know you thought I'd bought her shoes - and written about it, most unnecssarily - but I hadn't really, I just thought I had, She was wearing them - Saturday and Sunday she wore them, and today. And I met a friend for lunch on the corner and then we both went home to change nappies and I gave Linnea a little feed and saw her ankle.

Bleeding.

I got Rob to fetch me her shoes and sure enough, there was blood on one. It had rubber her ankle until it bled. this isn't unusual in a shoe, when your feet are shaped like mine and Rob's, and Linnea's are, only double. But it's heartbreaking when it's the shoes one ahs bought for one's own baby. So I spent the afternoon in John Lewis' children's shoe department again.

We started off with Linnea asleep; I got a refund for the first pair of shoes and a voucher to compensate me for my baby's trauma (she hadn't noticed, of course, but I had, and the shop girl almsot cried looking at the bloody sandal). She looked through all the shoes they had in a G-fitting and none of them had a narrow enough heel. None of the sandals are in a G-fitting; they only go up to F. After Linnea woke up we tried some little canvas things and one set of those fits well enough to "do", at least for now. But I can see that I'll have to go back in one month, rather than two, to get it checked again. The last set of sandals lasted 9 weeks but that was at least partially because it took me a while to realise that her increased clumsiness was because they no longer fit.

So I'm thinking of going to Harrods, where there is apparently a very large Start-Rite department, and I also intend to Google for a large London Clarks. And John Lewis have ordered some slightly better shoes for me in a range of possibly appropriate sizes, so we'll try those when they arrive.

Harrods. I've only been there once; my mother and I got lost. She also spent a pound to spend a penny, which amused her.

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If you're going in to London, try Daisy and Tom (www.daisyandtom.com) in Chelsea - I've always found them really helpful, patient at measuring toddler feet and with a good range of styles and not as expensive as I expected for baby shoes.