Looking for replacement laces for my flat Pumas with the pink Plimsoll line, the junk draw in the kitchen yielded two different lengths of ribbon, stripped pink grosgrain - a candy bright confection and a textured pale pink tape with a pale green edging. Viola! New laces.

While in Wagga I drew some cowboy boots, the Pumas (being handy and on legs' ends) and all the slippers in the house. But why did I wear these pale shoes to the first day of the BluesFest?. Recently I dreamt they were perfectly clean. In your dreams, as the saying goes.