Bargain boots...

OK, OK I nicked the idea from another Blipper, so having been scolded by Paula the other day I thought I'd better come clean!

I was doing my Sunday morning checks through my subs lists and stumbled across this... And it gave me an idea, a convoluted one perhaps but any Blip in a storm....

New Boots


My son-in-law in Oz was out the other day with us sightseeing down in south NSW when he disappeared. Not unusual said his wife, my wife and the kids. Almost in Unison we all said, "He's gone for a VB".

Some 20 minutes later he returned carrying several shopping bags which in itself is a bit of a revelation, he'd been shopping! Sure enough he opened one bag and produced a pair of boots. Not just any old boots but a pair of R.M. Williams boots costing several hundred dollars. Boots from the best bootmaker in the world. He dismissed the monumental event with a simple, "Always fancied a pair". Then he produced another two pairs of Williams footwear! We were gobsmacked! On the way home he was teased with 'Imelda' jibes but it was water off an RM Williams boot.

That evening he came into the room with a pair of Uggs for me! Genuine unworn Ugg slippers, beautiful and soft and very desirable. I tried the left one on and it didn't fit, drat. The I discovered a bunch of paper in the toe. I removed the offending stuff and it was a bundle of dollar bills. $2500 to be precise. We were all in shock!

He laughed and said, "Oh that's where it went". It turned out that on a trip to the UK a couple of years ago he hid the cash because he didn't want to leave it lying around while away from home. Then he forgot where he'd put it. You've got to know him to understand :O

So I got a pair of new footwarmers, he got his lost dosh back and everyone was happy. Especially my daughter, she said she'd better look after it 'for Christmas'.