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All that I said was that Fosters and specifically Terry Moore (for his decades of experience in dealing with those tricky appendages called feet and their little problems and quirks) is probably the best lastmaker in the world today. I think that a lot of craftsmen would acknowledge that he is certainly up there and someone with over 50 years' experience at the very top end of the market is bound to be better than someone with 10 years' experience. It is not just about styling and aesthetics; it is about fit first and foremost. Walking in a pair of bespoke shoes should be like walking on a cloud.

If friz will admit that I can piss higher than he, I'll say no more about it - and offering lavatory humour to an Austrian should raise a smile, surely.
NJS

Last edited by NJS (2011-10-15 09:54:55)

^^ Fritz - buy and try is all that I can say! But my forecast is that you will not like my books. You need a post-modern sense of humour; a wry and wicked eye, and an approach to the subject which is less earnest than your own, truly to like them. I hope that they rate as 'humour', rather than 'i-gentism'

Formby - yes, well, our history is full of betrayal of service: one of the greatest betrayals was of Krystyna Skarbeka - Christine Granville GM, OBE, Croix de Guerre Avec Palmes - a serious under-cover officer in WWII - left to rot afterwards, and to become a mere stewardess on ocean liners, where she met a nutter who pursued her relentlessly. On the eve of escaping from him, he tracked her down to a cheap hotel in Kensington and stabbed her through the heart. I suppose that it will be about the 60th anniversary of her death (on 12 June 2012) that they will release a money-spinning blockbuster about her (it is in the pipeline) and various worthless divots will become richer at her sad expense.

Nevertheless, here's a nice little thing: she has been described as 'Churchill's favourite spy', but there is no evidence that he even knew her name; she has been described as Ian Fleming's mistress and the inspiration for the characters Tatiana Romanova and Vesper Lynd in two of his books, but there is no evidence that they even met (the recent fictions are all to do with creating wealth for some dork or another); however, Alessandro Palazzi of Dukes Hotel (where Ian Fleming got the phrase 'shaken not stirred' from the 1950s' bar manager - and made it a James Bond Catch phrase), has recently started using a Polish vodka (Pitocki) in his version of the Vesper Martini, in silent tribute to Krystyna, in her own right.

Nice touch.

NJS