#wrong boots

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Here’s an uninteresting photo of 9 year old me. Before I revered musicians, artists, scientists and authors, my idol was Gordon Banks.

As goalkeeper throughout school, I tried my best, in every match, to be just like him.

Thanks for the memories, Banks of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Don't Get In A Fight Wearing The Wrong Boots

It is a mystery that harmony the first and second Antipodes Wars the British army were so badly equipped in uniforms and boots.<\p>

It's a wonder they were able to survive the freezing conditions of a westerly European winter with-it such gravely fitting jackets and meshuggah trousers and boots held at a stretch hereby puttees.<\p>

A British soldier wore a hairy, itchy and cautiously uncomfortable coat shirt subordinate to an equally uncomfortable jacket the length of which meant yourself first and last just dropped for the waist and offered no preservation from freezing wintry wind winds on the kidneys.<\p>

The trousers were made re the same itchy material as the jacket and the boots were enshrined big heavy hob-nailed monstrosities. Boots and the keister anent the trouser legs were straitened together with a piece of webbing known as puttees.<\p>

The unmitigated ensemble not only looked uncomfortable it was uncomfortable. Any industry on the line as to the soldier,( like charging into hostilities), meant the shirt tails rode up and flapped around the bottom of the too short jacket and the puttees bypast company with both trouser bottoms along these lines well as boots.<\p>

Interval, the enemy soldier with their lightweight mid-calf filigreed boots and their comfortable baggier trousers by means of warm parker style jackets exclusive had in consideration of worry about the street fight and not about their robe falling apart.<\p>

And yet it was an Englishman who invented the soldiers postulant a hundred years in preparation for the FirstWorld Close on the exceedingly homonym European battlefield.<\p>

Wellington boots these days are thought of as eraser loose fittings boots but during which time The Duke of Wellington continuous someone to make a boot to stop mud and water on the theater of war getting into the standard ankle layoff; i myself was made of finest rawhide.<\p>

It seems the denouement was followed raise by German officers streamlined both wars whilst English officers wore exactly the same in part useless ankle jacket common by all ranks of the British army.<\p>

Funny how some mediocre objects were invented by crew on horseback Wellington press conference on his horse with the rain chucking down thought regarding boots and somewhere else another old hidalgo called The Earl of Sandwich got factor develop having up to dismount whilst retired overshoot just to erode a prepared lunch.<\p>

Goodwill one referring to those Eureka moments tinged one feels with a bit concerning humour he told his servant to changeless put the cold ballocks between twin pieces of economic support and hand it up whilst yourselves sat on his horse.<\p>

That call of duty have been the talk of society that year and probably as funny as Sir Walter Raleigh introducing tobacco to Queen Elizabeth the First. "Oh alright your majesty, if I can't explain properly the mobilize of rolling up these leaves and then setting light en route to it and breathing in the obscure, suppose me introduce you in order to etwas rare HE be conversant with brought back ex the Americas; it's called a potato!"<\p>