Not wishing to sound smug but I took DD to by shoes on saturdays. Was dreading it not least because DD hates shopping especially for clothes and most especially for school clothes. But we parked straight away, walked in to Clarks, found some shoes, tried them on and paid - all in about 20 mins. Hurrah! Then DD and I spent about half an hour looking round a paper shop finding stuff to make christmas cards. And then she had a milkshake. But I did only have one child with me and she would have agreed if I'd offered her a pair of cardboard boxes just as long as we got out asap