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Michael Rolls

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Raven, many thanks 🙏
« on: Jan 10, 2021, 02:02:41 PM »
For introducing me to those crampons. They are brilliant! Enabled me to have a decent walk today for the time in well over a week
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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #1 on: Jan 10, 2021, 02:10:40 PM »
Great arn't they.  ;D  As I think I told you......I choose what pair of boots are to be for walking during the winter, struggle like mad to get them onto said boots, and there they stay till spring. Then they get a wash till next winter and stored where I can easily find them. ;D

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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #2 on: Jan 11, 2021, 06:24:03 AM »
I wish you hadn't said that! Whenever I put something away where I can easily find it when needed - I think you can guess the rest
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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #3 on: Jan 11, 2021, 06:27:19 AM »
Oh, and it was a fairly light pair of shoes onto which I forced them, so I have ordered the larger size which, all being well, will go on my boots. I used the shoes to walk yesterday in total confidence even on ice patches, but because the shoes are light, my feet were frozen when I got home - I have a nice pair of warm boots...
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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #4 on: Jan 11, 2021, 10:14:18 AM »
I wish you hadn't said that! Whenever I put something away where I can easily find it when needed - I think you can guess the rest
Mike 😁😁😥


Once mine are washed n dried I put them in my sock drawer, at the back on the bottom. I know where they are then.. ;)

Michael Rolls

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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #5 on: Jan 11, 2021, 10:17:54 AM »
You are clearly much better organised than am I!
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« Reply #6 on: Jan 11, 2021, 02:31:59 PM »
You can thank my mother for that. She always said "a time for everything and everything in it's place" she would hound us kids to keep our things that way. It rubbed off as it became a way of life for me. Organised Annie.  ;D

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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #7 on: Jan 11, 2021, 04:26:52 PM »
I am disorganised but still find things in a male disorganised way.  ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #8 on: Jan 11, 2021, 04:30:15 PM »
One of my colleagues at the university used to keep his papers in 2 "heaps" and yet he could find anything he wanted within 5 minutes!

Needless to say with my background as a librarian all mine were neatly filed in drawers.
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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #9 on: Jan 12, 2021, 12:24:15 PM »
Today I used my boots equipped with the larger pair of crampons. Worked every bit as well as the first pair and do have an advantage. The only pair of shoes that I could persuade to accept the first pair of crampons were quite lightweight, with the result that the crampons compress the uppers, which in turn squeeze my toes a bit, so I wouldn't want to work a long distance in them  - but pinched toes, and we are talking mild discomfort, not crippling pain, is a tiny price to pay for the confidence they engender in being able to walk on really treacherous surfaces
The boots are every bit as confidence inspiring and totally comfortable!
Once again , Raven, many thanks
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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #10 on: Jan 12, 2021, 12:40:05 PM »
Your welcome, :)  These are mine, they're on my hiking boots. I wear them every day for walking with the dog. As you can see they're getting quite worn, might invest in a new pair for next Winter.



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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #11 on: Jan 12, 2021, 12:41:52 PM »
If I may make so bold - your tootsies must be smaller than mine (not hard) as mine have ten studs - but again, can't thank you too much
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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #12 on: Jan 12, 2021, 12:42:58 PM »
I'm a size 6 or EU 39. Had these for around 6 years. The new ones are yellow and have more studs than these.

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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #13 on: Jan 12, 2021, 01:32:55 PM »
Mike on e-bay there are lots of steel toe-capped shoes/boots
classed as 'safety footwear, not too expensive
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Re: Raven, many thanks 🙏
« Reply #14 on: Jan 12, 2021, 04:07:55 PM »
Aye, but do they keep you upright on ice Crabby? Thats what the ice studs are for.