@NorthernJoe, exactly the point I was making. The old joke about the most off road they do being the super market car park is so true. Don't start me about the school run, when I went to school barely a handful of children out of 500 , were brought by car. One of my best friends lived the other side of the borough & he came by bus, and then walked over 1/2 a mile as the school wasn't on a bus route.
We got a bus pass to school as we were over 2 miles, but our next door neighbour didn't. After 2 years they remeasured and we stopped getting it. so we walked.
We got bus passes for school (well over 2 miles) but it was always full by the time it got to our stop so we walked. Otherwise it was walk several stops the other way to get on the bus before it got full, which seemed a bit pointless. My parents didn't drive (and still don't) so any holiday was a public transport marathon (and we kids were all travel-sick on coaches and buses ).
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@NorthernJoe, .To make an internet search work, you need to be specific. can you say in one of two sentences exactly what you're looking for. Maybe someone here can help you.
@JennyJ. Even walking past the local primary school when there's coaches outside, there's a little frisson. I can smell the squashed bananas and I can feel the anticipation. Hear the noise of excited children . I wish I was young enough to be a part of it.
We had special school buses laid on the various routes but ours was the last stop before a 5 mile onward journey, standing up on Cheshire roads in draughty old Routemaster buses with the open rear end. It was also a 1.5 mile walk to the bus stop.
In the warmer months I took to cycling so was unbelievably fit and I also saved all that bus fare. The route I took thru country lanes along the Bridgewater canal was longer and more upsy-downsy but safe and rather beautiful with the Ship Canal and Mersey to my left and arable fields and pasture all round plus the Thelwall viaduct for the M6 over all that providing entertainment on windy days. I had a huge, fluo orange bicycle cape for wet days.
@NorthernJoe you can definitely refine your google search and skills.
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I was thinking of school trips.. The British Museum. I'd never been to a museum. Even today, there are some children whose parents have either no car or no interest in expanding their children's horizons. Those days out make memories. I am pretty certain that my parents had never visited a museum of an art gallery. That being said, I exposed my child to as much culture as I could and she ended up in finance. You do what you can😊
@NorthernJoe, .To make an internet search work, you need to be specific. can you say in one of two sentences exactly what you're looking for. Maybe someone here can help you.
I've been specific and less specific. Combined uk in various ways but the only specific answers I got were American sources with mostly American brands that haven't made it here yet. Must admit internet searches don't seem logical to me. I can be specific in the terms and get wide results. I can be wide in my terms and get specific results for the same things.
More awake than I am i reckon with that search. However I've yet to see a good review on safety footwear that mentions fit. Buying them from various retailers you can get bits of information about certain brands or models but not much to compare in the UK.
There's a retailer of ski, winter and outdoor kit who has a very good shoe fit thing. You find footwear you like and there's a fit adviser. You select the make, model and size of something you have that fits well. It then suggests the shoe size of the model you like. Sometimes it's a size above or below your shoe size.
I'm difficult with shoe size because I've got narrow foot but average at instep. I often rotate my foot freely in safety boots. This time I'm looking for a proper fit. Everything is online these days too. No shop holding a range of sizes and models of safety boots is delivery a few days on and return of they don't fit.
Have you clicked on any of those boots @NorthernJoe? They have more information about fit than I’ve seen on any other site ... and you can make a list of different styles and they’ll do a fit comparison.
I can’t see how you’ll get more information without trying them on.
As someone with ‘non-standard’ feet I know how varied different shoes etc can be.
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We got bus passes for school (well over 2 miles) but it was always full by the time it got to our stop so we walked. Otherwise it was walk several stops the other way to get on the bus before it got full, which seemed a bit pointless. My parents didn't drive (and still don't) so any holiday was a public transport marathon (and we kids were all travel-sick on coaches and buses
In the warmer months I took to cycling so was unbelievably fit and I also saved all that bus fare. The route I took thru country lanes along the Bridgewater canal was longer and more upsy-downsy but safe and rather beautiful with the Ship Canal and Mersey to my left and arable fields and pasture all round plus the Thelwall viaduct for the M6 over all that providing entertainment on windy days. I had a huge, fluo orange bicycle cape for wet days.
@NorthernJoe you can definitely refine your google search and skills.
Even today, there are some children whose parents have either no car or no interest in expanding their children's horizons. Those days out make memories. I am pretty certain that my parents had never visited a museum of an art gallery.
That being said, I exposed my child to as much culture as I could and she ended up in finance.
You do what you can😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
https://www.engelbert-strauss.co.uk/safety-boots-safety-wellingtons/?refcode=UKybb44&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=UK%20-%20Berufsschuhe%20-%20neu&utm_term=work%20boots&utm_content=Work_boots_PHRASE
😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There's a retailer of ski, winter and outdoor kit who has a very good shoe fit thing. You find footwear you like and there's a fit adviser. You select the make, model and size of something you have that fits well. It then suggests the shoe size of the model you like. Sometimes it's a size above or below your shoe size.
I'm difficult with shoe size because I've got narrow foot but average at instep. I often rotate my foot freely in safety boots. This time I'm looking for a proper fit. Everything is online these days too. No shop holding a range of sizes and models of safety boots is delivery a few days on and return of they don't fit.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.