BAD, BAD SOCKS!<\/p>\n
\u00a0Bought a cheap bundle of nice-looking socks from the supermarket, to add to the veggies, bread, cheese, etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n I always buy the biggest socks I can find. Despite having tiny stick-legs all socks seem to cut-off circulation to the feet: weird.<\/strong><\/p>\n How do all those huge blokes cope with tourniquet-socks?<\/strong><\/p>\n Anyway, as I suspected, though the socks were much longer than my actual feet, the elasticated tops were finger-thickness stranglers.<\/strong><\/p>\n Equally impossible, the knit was fair-isle! So, what’s wrong with that, you say? <\/strong><\/p>\n Well. The nice pattern on the outside was constructed with myriad loops of wool on the inside. So, try getting your toe-nails through that maze of giant Velcro! Ha! Simply impossible! The socks seemed unwearable.<\/strong><\/p>\n Never reject a bad bargain: fix it.<\/strong><\/p>\n And I did. First, cut the strangler tops off. Good; space now to get my foot in. Second, turn them inside-out. Ha, now the impossible loops are on the outside! Wearable, cosy socks, and cheap. <\/strong><\/p>\n Of course that’s WHY they were cheap!<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BAD, BAD SOCKS! \u00a0Bought a cheap bundle of nice-looking socks from the supermarket, to add to the veggies, bread, cheese, etc. I always buy the biggest socks I can find. Despite having tiny stick-legs all socks seem to cut-off circulation … Continue reading