New Boots

A small miracle happened last night. My tardy parcel (which featured in a rant yesterday) appeared as if by magic outside my door at 6:30pm with a text message and photograph to let me know it was there.  It wasn’t there an hour earlier when I returned from my TGIF drink with the neighbours and I didn’t hear the doorbell. 
These boots are what I was waiting for. What is even more miraculous, the boots fit and are comfortable. I broke them in with a cold wet walk into town and back. 

I’m holed up now, looking at happed up pedestrians with umbrellas trying to beat the showers of icy rain blown in on a strengthening wind. Only yesterday it felt almost spring like in the sunshine but today is definitely a January day.