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Exactly. Life would be dull without the great British pastime of finding obscure reasons to look down on your neighbours.

Which is why a 4 bed house in Walthamstow can be circa £900k. The wave of money washes outwards and suddenly places which were "i'd rather die than live in xxxx" for a certain sort of people are now somewhat desirable.

So part of me is slightly annoyed that I now live cheek by jowel with sort of people who previously would rather have died but they sold their two bed flat overlooking Clissold Park for £750k and needed a house now that little Hattie has arrived.

The other part of me is quite pleased that I can now get decent coffee at the end of my street.

I was in Glasgow today and still hadn't got round to buying jeans so went into Fat Buddha Store on St Vincent Street.

I must have tried on nearly every pair of Edwins they had on the shop, and they did have a pretty comprehensive selection. The guys in that shop were both knowledgeable and helpful; I recommend, if you find yourself in that part of the world.

Anyhow, eventually left with a pair of Nashville Red 32R. Also liked the ED-39 but need them in the long leg. Mebbe get them for my next pair.

So far so good and recs to the good people of Glasgow.

Thanks. I didn't realise that rapha made jeans...

Cadence and Howies look moar dad friendly, will investigate.

Levi commuters or something else?

The train has left the station.... You are on it.

I'm in for London gigs.

Interesting you say that... Best possible plan is to have a smaller place in London once (if?!) the kids leave home, and have a place somewhere in that countryside thing which I've heard about.

Middle of France is very cheap, Suffolk isn't. Middle of France is harder to get to but it's quite nice once you're there.

It's somewhere in between a plan and a pipe dream really, may just hang out in walthamstow forever.

I've lived in London since I was 6. Went to college in Aberdeen, that's the only significant time I've lived elsewhere. There will always be things about London I love, and I'm glad to be bringing up my kids here.

We (ie wife and I) are quite fortunate that we bought a house 13 years ago which we wouldn't be able to afford today, so housing is not really a problem for us. I recognise some of the complaints people are making about how London has changed, but weren't the same demographic having similar conversations in the 90s, in the 80s,maybe even the 70s? We miss things which have passed and don't always recognise what has improved...

Anyway; I'm going to retire at 50 and move to France, maybe. 300% house price increase in 10 years may help with this plan.

I was window shopping outside that place the other day! I think it was redwing boots which had my attention at that moment.

It's an easy walk from work so that looks like a plan...

Thanks, these look good as do the eBay ones (they are really nice) but seems a big risk on the sizing.

Google says there is a place in holborn which stocks Edwin stuff so going to see if I can pop down there next week.

Looking for some advice from you clothing knowledgable people. I've tended to go function and cost as priorities so I don't know much about this stuff.

I've spent most of my life wearing 501s, not stonewashed! Then one time, a few years ago, I went to get some new 501s and found that they didn't fit. 34" waist were too tight at the top of my thighs; dunno if they changed or I did.

I bought some other Levi's when I was in America, can't remember the number now but they went at the crotch within a year. Recently I went to a Levi's shop and they suggested 541s which I bought; yes they are a tiny bit stretchy but they seem ok. These are 32" waist 34" leg and fit pretty good. The sizing is flattering though, I tried some other 32" waist in TK M; too small.

Anyway, point is, where else could I look for non stretchy jeans which will last, will not be like vices on my thighs, plain non stonewashed look? Also not really into paying £200 for jeans. Would go £100 - £120 I guess. I was looking at Hawksmill on t'internet but they seem hard to find in actual shops.

Thanks for any suggests you may have.

Keen to see what the duck looked like sliced up.
Kiwi steak also looking promising.

Thanks stevo - were these the desert boots or the German paras?

Just found this, read Backbone first, then Bronze Cortina MkIII, then Life Sucks.

Loved all of it; probably Cortina the most.

Reminded me a little of the writing I used to do, years ago, when I still did stuff like that.

So I had a look through some of my old work and it turns out that it was all about drug taking and sleeping with prostitutes. Then I remembered that I wrote a story about a guy buying a secondhand BMW from a mechanic named Seamus, but I couldn't find that one. I posted it on usenet at the time, a group called alt.writing. But usenet's all fucked up now and you can't find stuff from 15 years ago.

Great work. Keep going.

So much choice if you go second hand. A pair of wharfedale diamonds would be a safe bet:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wharfedale-Diamond-9-1-Main-Stereo-Speakers-/322030271070?hash=item4afa7ffa5e:g:vpAAAOSwh-1W3Aty

Active speakers is a good suggestion. These might be worth considering:

http://www.whathifi.com/audioengine/a5/review

I feel a bit sorry for dicki...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/German-Army-Para-Boots-Genuine-Military-Surplus-Black-Leather-Paratrooper-Combat-/171514940336?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

My dad claimed that they were made of horse leather - this was a Good Thing as far as he was concerned. Got them from a place called "Mr Lee's" that used to be on Hornsey Road, just down from Jav's Cafe.

Those Meindl desert boots look really good at £40-£50. Unfortunately everyone seems to have only small sizes in stock.

There seems to be some question over the durability of the Meindl Borneos. A long time ago I had some old German army surplus boots - they were completely indestructible and comfortable. They were at least a size too big for me, though. I see you can still get German "para" boots. Soles look a bit shit but might be worth a punt.

I would only class myself as a partially flat earthist. My issue with membrane liners isn't that I like getting wet feet or think that everything must be made out of hair shirts, it just that I've never had a pair of membrane lined boots or shoes which I found comfortable to wear - they just make my feet hot and sweaty.

Also, leather with decent proofing in it is waterproof enough for anything that I'm likely to be doing.

Charge didn't particularly seem to think there was an issue for them to solve. They did offer to send me some bits, I'm waiting to see if they show up.

Plug 1 is alu which I didn't really want.

arrghhh... another choker.

[insert maximum crying .giff]

Yes, fair point. Will be used in the UK, all year round. I'm often in Scotland in winter or spring. Nothing technical, just hills, forest paths, that sort of thing.

I bought a pair of Zamberlans about 25 years ago; think they were trail-lite. They were perfect, it was before they started putting gortex into everything. Eventually the soles came unglued and after getting them glued back on a couple of times, I gave up. Went into Blacks and got a cheap pair of Merrill boots - they are ok in Inverness in winter but the rest of the time my feet are too hot - plus the soles are 80% worn out after a couple of years.

So tempted to go for the welted sole Zamberlans...

What are the best walking boots?

And why does everything have to be effin Goretex lined? My feet get hot; I don't want lined boots. Choice seems to be between:

http://www.uttings.co.uk/p108012-zamberlan-1020-nuvolao-nw-walking-boots-men-s-waxed-mustard-1020pm0p-db/#.Vtq8M2IgGSM

And these

http://www.rutlandcycling.com/98570/products/meindl-borneo-2-mfs-mens-mountaineering--and--hiking-boots.aspx

But there is so much more. For instance, FLAC sounds worse than .wav. And electricity sounds different from, erm, other electricity. So much fun is to be had, surely?

On another forum I sometimes frequent, there is a bloke who is convinced that he can hear "what is missing" in red book (ie CD) sampling rates....