Still slippery when wet

It's been a couple of years since I blogged about taking a new pair of shoes for spin, well slide really, on various granite paved surfaces in both Edinburgh and London. Without rehashing the details, suffice it say that I discovered a new pair of shoes had zero traction on wet granite surfaces and I took advantage of this by whizzing around town whenever the rains came.

Alas, it lasted no more than a couple of weeks, as the soles of the shoes wore down, so lessened their magical slipperyness until I was forced to walk in the rain like normal people. It was a sad occasion, and though I hearkened back to those halcyon times every now and again, I managed to go on with my life somehow.

You can only imagine my delight when today I discovered that a recently purchased pair of trainers share that same slipperly-slidey quality as my old shoes. I've owned them for several months already, so I'm hopeful I'll be able to slide about in them longer than I managed in my old shoes. On the down side, and the reason why it took me so long to discover this particularly property, is that they are made of canvas, and generally unsuitable for use in the pouring rain.

Still, zipping about Leicester Square in them, still startling tourists (an activity second only to scaring pigeons with a trenchcoat in Trafalgar Square. And don't be silly - of course it was me wearing the trenchcoat) is tremendous fun and easily worth the inconvenience of a damp toe or two.

I only managed a single circle of Leicester Square before I was quite horribly out of breath, but I'll be back.

Tourists beware!