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Preparing for Winter V
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If you come from a farming background you always take shoes off when you go into anybody's house. Everybody round here does.
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Ive worn what I call House Shoes for years - mainly becuase I'll go out into the garden to peg washing out & no footpath. At the moment I wear a pair of nice soft leather Aldi moccassins!Small victories - sometimes they are all you can hope for but sometimes they are all you need - be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle4
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Well, yes, farming, you would do - even general rural, it makes sense... but in My Intended's and my 1960s-80s school years we can't remember any house we were in, family or friends, where people took their shoes off except, as I said, a few households with Scandinavian or Muslim families. Nor can our parents, who grew up hundreds of miles apart in working- or middle-class households!
We grew up variously in SW England, East Anglia, SE Scotland, Home Counties, in market town, large port, capital city, suburban sprawl...
But somehow all our families' memories are apparently wrong because "everyone" has "always" taken their shoes off on entering a house
Weird things, memories, aren't they?
Nothing against taking shoes off - but it's just something that really *didn't* used to be 100% uniform across the country... but apparently it was2025 remaining: 37 coupons from 66:
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We always remove shoes too. i have taken to wearing bedsocks indoors as they can just be thrown in washing machine every couple of days.
Washed fleeces for sofa... still with summer duvet and hoping weather forecast is correct for for next week5 -
We wore shoes in the house although people like my grandfather-a farmer-did remove their wellies.
I can remember going on an exchange visit to France when I was 15. The family I stayed with did remove shoes at the door. They also had a pile of oval carpet shapes which visitors would put under their shoes in the house.6 -
We always wore shoes inside, but you changed them if they were dirty. Mostly outside was wellies anyway... or school shoes... I do remember my dad changing from his work 'outdoor' shoes to 'indoor' shoes when he came home from work (or from going out). My mum was always reminding us to wipe our feet/change our shoes, but anyone not wearing shoes indoors in our house would have got very cold feet!
I do find it odd that if you go out for a meal with friends, and dress up smartly, some people expect you to remove your shoes. You might be wearing specific shoes as part of an outfit. Or you might have smelly feet...6 -
I had a friend who was married to a doctor and they always removed outdoor shoes. He used to refer to the fact that TB was believed to be spread by people spitting on the pavements. I can remember signs on lamp post about fines for anyone caught spitting. I'm careful about removing shoes worn outside at the moment and keeping them at the door. In fact I've found that I tend to wear the same shoes and coat most of the time now.The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Thanks to everyone who contributes to this wonderful forum. I'm very grateful for the guidance and friendliness that I always receive from you.
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Please and Thank You are the magic words;)6 -
I hardly ever wear shoes at all apart from crocs for hanging out washing or doing the garden. In the house I wear hand knitted thick warm socks. Latest are done with one strand of mohair and one of Icelandic wool and wow they are HOT7
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Eenymeeny said:I had a friend who was married to a doctor and they always removed outdoor shoes. He used to refer to the fact that TB was believed to be spread by people spitting on the pavements. I can remember signs on lamp post about fines for anyone caught spitting. I'm careful about removing shoes worn outside at the moment and keeping them at the door. In fact I've found that I tend to wear the same shoes and coat most of the time now.
If this virus hangs in the air and can survive on hard surfaces. It makes sense that it will Eventually fall and accumulate on the ground.I was always the same about shoes in the house - dog poop and petrol could be carried in where my children played.6 -
Foot & Mouth is carried on shoes too.
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