Boots Boots Boots Boots Marchinup and Downagain

Those few of you who have read and will remember the Goodies Christmas Album from nineteen seventy blob, will recognise the title of this post as the name of a firm of solicitors….

Anyway – suddenly I have loads of pairs of boots.

Some time ago, I was asked if I would like to review stuff for Ukhillwalking (note well that I’m not reviewing stuff for the blog) and, never a one to refuse hillwalking gear, I said I would.

A bit later, I was told that TNF wanted to send me some boots.  Fair do’s – all my boots are now leaking, except, perhaps my venerable Scarpa’s which I only wear in the depths of icy winter when its require to wear spikes – cos they is stiff, see?

Anyway, the boots never arrived and, eventually , I mentioned this to Sarah at Ukhillwalking. A flurry of emails flitterred around the ether. Boots must have been despatched because…..

Suddenly, a few days ago, a white van appeared at the knipetowers  main drawbridge and the chap announced the arrival of a pair of boots from Belgium. Good-oh. They look very nice. I’ll be trying them out shortly and they’ll likely go on next year’s TGO Challenge (If I get on) – or otherwise on various backpacking trips.

Then , even suddenlier, another white van appears across the moat and the man with the van proudly  announces the  arrival of a pair of boots from Belgium. I accepted, of course.

Justaminnit, though – hasn’t this already happened?  I now have  two pairs of identical TNF boots – the first were despatched in November and the second, in September. Where’ve they been, I wonder. I’m just waiting to see if they want a pair back.

I’ll be doing a report for Ukhillwalking.com as soon as I’ve given them a bit of a bashing testing.