I've been bitten!

[HeyWayne]

I have to say, I'd probably laugh at a 6½ ft bloke wearing a pair of flip-flops to the allotment too. Pool wear? Maybe. Allotment wear? No.

One of the oldest forms of footwear known to man (or woman). I wear mine almost everywhere - pool included.

[Mikey]

I always wear my crocs over the lottie, even when its raining, you can always wash them in the tap outside. My crocs are wellie boot green/brown, so I doubt anyone has even noticed.

[Mikey]

Not to say I don't wear wellies aswell, but if all you're doing is a bit of hoeing I don't see the need to make my feet sweat in a pair of wellies.

[HeyWayne]

Not to say I don't wear wellies aswell, but if all you're doing is a bit of hoeing I don't see the need to make my feet sweat in a pair of wellies.

My pint exactly. Wellies when it's muddy, or if I'm digging. Other "light" work doesn't require sweaty unhealthy for my feet wellies. The digging bit takes up little of my allotment time over the year, and I'm rarely there or doing anything if it's muddy.

[SlugLobber]

Ah, sorry. Anyone that calls me mate automatically makes me think dude - just how it is with me, unless/until I know otherwise.

One could argue anyone saying "mate" to another dude DESERVES to be called a man...

Ack, sorry. I did do a psychology test for 'male versus female' brains and my brain came out overwhelmingly male!! I had a train set and cars as a nipper and everything! I do wonder what my Mum ate when she was up the duff...it was the 70s...
...on the plus side, I can read a map, have a wicked sense of direction, can reverse a trailer anywhere you want and enjoy driving lorries!

Oh and my dream 'ride' is a 1980 GMC pick-up truck. Preferably with a 1980 Lee Majors in it!!

[di]

My pint exactly. Wellies when it's muddy, or if I'm digging. Other "light" work doesn't require sweaty unhealthy for my feet wellies. The digging bit takes up little of my allotment time over the year, and I'm rarely there or doing anything if it's muddy.

Don't you find wellies uncomfy for digging?really hurts the arch of my foot~good ole steeltoe workboots for me!(&this is di so female of the species!)prob lok as odd as croc/flipflop brigade when i've got dress on!

[HeyWayne]

Ack, sorry. I did do a psychology test for 'male versus female' brains and my brain came out overwhelmingly male!! I had a train set and cars as a nipper and everything! I do wonder what my Mum ate when she was up the duff...it was the 70s...
...on the plus side, I can read a map, have a wicked sense of direction, can reverse a trailer anywhere you want and enjoy driving lorries!

Oh and my dream 'ride' is a 1980 GMC pick-up truck. Preferably with a 1980 Lee Majors in it!!

SlugLobber - aka Vicki Butler-Henderson.

Anyway, how many other types of shoe have a built in bottle opener?

Buy Fear TP 2 Inc Opn - Sandals And Flip Flops at Sports Direct

Now tell me they ain't "blokey"!

[Mikey]

Oooh, I couldn't wear them, all my tooties would be on show, and they haven't been polish'd.

[SlugLobber]

I just had to google VBH. Don't like racing cars (they drive in circles, wot's that about?!?) and I don't smoke, but not a bad comparison! I prefer driving bigger stuff. Wouldn't mind a go at lorry racing, though! A Peterbuilt with big stacks on! Wooo!!

Those flip-flops are plain wrong!

On a side-note, I only learnt the term 'toe thong' the other day, as an alternative name for flip-flops. I had this bizarre image of underwear with toes in!!!

Di (I'm also a 'Di', what a class name you have!), I also use work-boots when in the garden, or jodhpur boots if I'm in and out a lot (I get lazy with laces!). There's us being all sensible and then there's these flip-flop weilding maniacs. The ants'll av yer toes next, Wayne. You watch!

[lynda66]

flip flops give you bunions ....... it's a fact, i used to wear them all the time, and now i have one it flipping hurts, and now i can't wear them at all, something to do with the fact that you grip them with your toes and it bends your toe out of line eventually.

i have just bought some crocs for out in the garden, cos i was sick of having sweaty feet, normally i wear DM's though, cos they stop you chopping your toes off with a shovel .... i'm a bit accident prone, and chopped my toe nail off last week in a pair of sandals.

[HeyWayne]

flip flops give you bunions ....... it's a fact,

Along with there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq!

The way you grip with flip-flops has no bearing on the way bunions are formed. All of your toes grip the flip flop - bunions are where the toe is deformed in the horizontal plane, not the stress of vertical pressure which occurs when toes"grip". Toes don't "grip" between each other, even fingers struggle to do that.

Bunions are somewhat inherent, you're either susceptible to them or not. Shoes that overcrowd the toes will not help, but again, they do not "cause" bunions. However, more women suffer with bunions than men, so tight shoes certainly don't help.

[Mikey]

I'm surprised you have one at all Lynda being a DM wearer, they do tend to be quite generous, a bit like a clarks shoe for men. My OH loves her DM's, well did she's an avid fan of crocs now, though in Black.

[lynda66]

i only got mine through wearing flip flops ....... my doctor also got one from wearing scholl sandals, when she was a medical student and walking round the corridors for hours. and she was told it was cos of the shoes.

thankfully i only have the one and even though it's painful, it's not that bad yet ...... but the DM's are plenty wide enough, so they deffo haven't caused it.

[petal]

horsefly bit my bum once. Photo?

[LolaLou]

Blandford Fly

Hey all.... just relighting this topic as I've been bit, for the second year running by some darn evil bug at the lottie!! Last year I had a foot that looked similar to HeyWaynes in the pics at the beginning of this thread - seriously horrible and had to go to two weddings sporting the nicest looking flip flops I could find as I couldn't wedge by elephant foot/leg into anything else for weeks. Three lots of antibotics and the filthy thing finally went down, but the bite holes iched for months after. So, there I was on Sunday night thinking, ouch, what's that stabbing, looked at my leg and there is one of those 'tiny' little black beetle looking things sucking on my leg. Two days later and I have elephant leg again that is SO sore.

After my little rant, has anyone heard of the Blandford Fly and/or been bitten by one as I am sure this is what is biting me each year (we have a brook that runs alongside our allotments so they could come from there)???