Shoes and soaps and sealing wax, cabbages and rings

[ailbhe]

Shoes

While passing through Galway I went back to the little children's shoe-shop in the Eyre Square centre where we got her some canvas things three months ago. And lo! They had a lovely pair of boys' ankle boots in navy blue, size 6.5G, Start Rite (which means she'll outgrow them quite soon, but who cares?) and neat-looking - not suffering from that odd but fashionable hiking-boot-cum-trainer look afflicting so many boys' shoes these days.

I was dreading shoe-shopping on our return to Reading. Now I don't have to do it for another 8 weeks or so.

Soap

My mother bought me some handmade soap wrapped in linen (to be used as an exfoliating cloth!) while she was on her holidays, and I bought Radz and Niall some handmade soap made in Swords but called Aran Mist while I was on my holidays and I was again reminded that I intend to remove all traces of MegaCorp products from the bathroom. So. How do I go about choosing a home-made solid bar shampoo? I currently use Dove shampoo and conditioner, because it works and requires no thought and I end up with lovely hair, but it's incompatible with the whole "try not to hurt the planet" thing even if I do recycle the plastic bottles. And the farmers market has a soap stall. So. I already know a few of the things I want to look for in soap. Shampoo-buying tips, peoples?

Sealing wax

I need to sign a box of ten books, seal them, and ship them with an invoice.

Cabbages

We are in credit with our organic supplier so we have a fridge full of nyummy brassicas.

Rings

My missing wedding ring showed up while the house was turned upside-down by the central heating installation. Hurrah!

Rob has taken Linnea swimming to tire her out for a better bedtime experience tonight. Tomorrow we have to leave at 8 am for our Swedish lesson. Sunday we are doing diddly-squat.

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Diddly-squat is the BEST.