Shoes

Back in August, my mum bought the boys their school shoes for the coming term.  A pair of Clarks for Jacob, some Startrites for Sam.  Not much change out of £80, which is why I'm glad she buys them.

On Wednesday, I noticed that Jacob's shoes had split - one piece of leather had come out of it's stitching all the way down the side of the shoe.  The other shoe was starting to go in exactly the same place. That's not very good, imo - £36 shoes lasting less than five months; Jacob isn't particularly hard on  his shoes and apart from the split, they looked to be in pretty good condition.

The most irritating thing about this is that when we got him trainers in November, he'd already gone up a half size from August and will have grown more since then.  If only his feet had stayed the same size I could have gone into Clarks in a state of high dudgeon and got a replacement pair - I'm not sure they're going to be quite so accommodating if he actually needs them in a bigger size....