I love this time of year - so bitter-sweet, like limbo, neither one thing nor the other. I'm in Clark's with the children, doing the school shoes. We've already done stationery and uniforms. I thought I was ahead of the game but of course everyone else has thought exactly the same. It's a back-to-school frenzy out there. I Discount Christian Louboutin Prorata 90mm Nude feel like a hunter-gatherer, tucking away provisions for winter. I got the last pack of multi-punched plastic pockets in town.
There's a ticket machine in Clark's these days, like at the cheese counter at the Co-op, but it's not working. There are women and children milling around, clutching single shoes. We silently establish our place in the queue, like establishing your turn at the barber's - memorising the faces of those who came in before you and those who came after. I start reading the free Clark's children's magazine featuring SpongeBob SquarePants while keeping one eye on the woman before us and one eye on the woman behind.
I've not read Christian Louboutin Daffodile 160Mm Satin Pumps Purple the Guardian for months. It's hit-and-miss finding a Guardian around here at the best of times, but during the summer the supply seems to dry up; maybe there's a whole crowd of Guardian readers in town visiting friends and family, getting up early and snapping up the handful of copies before me. I've had to survive on the County Down Spectator, and the Donegal Democrat, with an occasional Belfast Telegraph thrown in, so although I may not be au fait with what's happening in Lebanon, I am at least familiar with what's been showing at the Abbey Centre in Ballyshannon, and with local shock-jock Stephen Nolan's apology to the people of Ardoyne for calling them "trailer trash". I've also followed with interest the build-up to the Kilcar "Wild Craic" street festival 2006 - horseshoe throwing, egg-and-spoon race, "tossing the sheaf (tight leotards essential)".
When it comes to our turn we shuffle up to the new computerised foot-measuring machine. Last year they were still using those hand-held gauges. "Is it better, using the machine?" I ask the shoe-shop lady. "Not really," she says.
We used to buy the children second-hand shoes when they were little, but everyone said Christian Louboutin Outlet they'd get bad feet when they were older. (How many adults do you know with bad feet because they wore ill-fitting school shoes? I wear second-hand shoes, and my feet are fine, as long as you ignore the athlete's foot, and the fungal nail infection).
I say to the lady, as she punches numbers into the machine, "How was your summer?" She says, "Great." She went to Majorca. All-inclusive - it was more expensive, but at least then it's a holiday for the mum as well, she says. "What about yous?"
We were away in the camper van to Donegal. Last year we found a nice site and the first night we were there two giant mobile homes pulled up alongside us. One of them had a quad bike on the back and the other had a moped, which the mobile-home children rode around on till the early hours of the morning while the parents sat outside drinking vodka, arguing and listening to Eminem. My wife said she'd never go camping again.
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