Trainer time

I have been going with two pairs of my trusty Merrell branded trainers. Known as Moab 3, made in Vietnam and I am pleased to say that the identical trainers, which have served me well, have been going for years. Long may they last!

However, they don't last for ever and both pairs were getting a bit down at heel, one quite badly, which I dare say was not doing my feet any good. So time for at least one new pair.

Cotswold Outdoor as efficient as ever, with trainers ordered online early Sunday evening turning up before noon on Monday. The pair top left have now been dumped - I think not recycled given their tricky composition - and the laces, which seems as good as new, are on their way to my stash of same. Perhaps, in time, to do their time holding my stick to the back of Bullingdons. For which see reference 1. Previous purchase, just about a year ago noticed at the beginning of reference 2.

The trainers have now had their first outing, reminding me that one of their virtues is that they do not need breaking in, in the way of trainers of old. But my heels did feel a bit funny at first, presumably being pushed back into their proper positions.

The only fly in the ointment had been checking my old email in gmail to check what size I bought. Gmail turned up all the old emails OK, but unless one took care with the search key, the results were swamped by junk mail from some people called Wowcher. They don't seem to appear in my live email anymore, but I one point I did, foolishly, allow them to send me stuff.

Companies House offer me a thirty page report, in the depths of which I notice that Wowcher is owned by Excalibur Holdco. Companies House offer me a forty page report for them, from which I glean very little, beyond their having the same address in Dalston as the company they are supposed to own. While Wikipedia tells me that Wowcher was sold on to the DMG Group in 2011, the people responsible for the Daily Mail. Although, according to Acrobat, the string 'dmg' does not appear among the forty pages.

Enough. Let's hope that I have not poked Wowcher back into life.

PS: if I had built a money making business and wanted to sell out for a quiet life, would I sell to the Daily Mail? I suppose the answer is yes, but then I was never in the money making business. And logic tells us that you can infer anything from a premise which is false. For which see the anecdote at reference 6.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/10/morley-college.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/10/mainly-sonatas.html.

Reference 3: https://www.wowcher.co.uk/deals/london.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wowcher.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMG_Media.

Reference 6: https://www.nku.edu/~longa/classes/mat385_resources/docs/russellpope.html.