Comhrá - the general chat thread

[JaneJeffer]

Hi Craicnetters!

I was looking for the other thread and see it's fallen way down the list so I decided to make a new one for all our daily musings ☘️

I have a bunion. I used to be able to wear really narrow shoes.
Im in the midst of weddings now due to being auntie to many 20 and 30 somethings. Im nearly finished graduations.
My ds spent nearly every weekend at weddings after lockdowns ended!

@honeyrider
Those shoes are not what I envisaged you wearing
I thought you'd be a Christian Louboutin's killer heels type of girl. 😂

I'm too old and heavy for posh shoes. I live in Brooks runners due to plantar fasciitis, arthritis flare ups. 😂

There's a thread running in AIBU about taking your shoes off when you enter people's homes.
Have you experienced that ?
Never have I been asked to remove my shoes in someone's home or seen others do it.
Yes on a private jet because of the white carpet, ( I know ! I know ! 😂 a friend of a friend - you'd think they could afford to have it cleaned regularly )
Is it a UK thing this shoes off in the house?
An Australian thing ?
There are a few Australians on the thread.
Your thoughts please.

It happened to me in Sweden. I've seen people from the UK on here saying they do it.

I think it would be a deal breaker for me in the 'do I ever want to have anything to do with this person again?' stakes.

I always take off my shoes and my daughters boyfriend does too. He is a bit of a clean freak. I just dont like wearing shoes!
Yer wan on Crime call is married to Dr Ronan Glynn from Pandemic days. I liked him.

I usually take off my shoes going into someone's house. I have separate shoes/runners for wearing at home and my gang take off their shoes after coming in (trained from an early age!) If we have a visitor I don't mention it. I don't want people feeling awkward or uncomfortable. I would prefer they took their shoes off though. I feel it's more hygienic to leave your shoes at the door. Just a habit that has become ingrained in me over the years going back to childhood.

I would never be so rude to ask someone to take off their shoes when coming into my house. It's not a common practice here.

That thread is gas about the shoes off. Some of them are nearly having a power hose wash before entering the house. We don't take shoes off, although I do wear slippers, not granny ones 😂 Mam always said floors are for walking on, so I've carried on her ways, it's mad to think it was carpets everywhere back then, not as easy to clean and the hoover didn't come out every day although some people did have those big plastic runners in hall. I have visitors most days, mostly therapists I would never tell them to remove their shoes, poor feckers work long hours on their feet.

We always buy new shoes for weddings, parties etc end up with sore swollen feet, why do we do it. I remember buying new boots for a funeral 😫😫omg they were so uncomfortable, the grave was miles from the entrance, I hobbled across the grave yard hanging off DH, people probably thought I was being dramatic looking for attention because I wouldn't tell anyone that my boots which looked good were so painful to wear .

"oh that poor woman, crippled by grief . . ."

We are a shoes off upstairs family
My family think I have notions

My lovely neighbour is sadly no longer with us. She had her entire house carpeted in champagne axminster. Her dh was nursed at home for a few years. When he eventually had to go into a nursing home she had the entire house recarpeted because of all the staff traipsing through.
She was excellent! Full on Hyacinth.

I only have carpet on my stairs and landing. What would I be like if I had carpets everywhere!

I love the sound of champagne axminster. Nightmare to keep clean though.

I was terrified I would spill something on the champagne carpet. Champagne wouldn't have stained but I got tea and a biscuit to discuss the royal family based on the Daily Express.
Rte ladies are great at wearing fabulous shoes.

@eggandonion "I was terrified I would spill something on the champagne carpet.....".
Like Hyacinth Bucket's neighbour in "Keeping Up Appearances" 😂

Exactly. And my daughters loved going to visit because she had chocolate biscuits. And gold velvet upholstery.
In nice weather we chatted outside in the sun.
I have to make do with royal threads on style and beauty now. I would love the late Mrs Next Door to tell me her opinion of Meghan now.
The replacement neighbour isnt interested in Princess Annes hat.

Wow that Christopher Montgomery is a complete tosser. RTÉ shouldn't give him any air time.

I'm laughing at the RTÉ rugby gang not being able to cop with the noise in Croker

Anytime I've been to a rugby match in the Aviva the atmosphere is very dull as so many are boozed up and not watching much of the match, just drinking and disturbing people every time they're going to and from the bar then spilling drink on the people in front of them.

How will the poor "fans" cope without alcohol during the match in Croker?

They'll have to channel their inner culchie

There will be a stampede for the Heino now

I see Bambie Thug has got shellfish poisoning. Nasty thing to have, but it might provide a face-saving excuse to pull out of Eurovision if it's getting too contentious.

I thought that too.

Did anyone else listen to the first episode of the series on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings? Harrowing but well done. The weird thing is that although I was living in Ireland by then I have no memory of it. We didn't have a TV and were living in a rented house while my parents were busy house hunting, so probably didn't hear the initial shocking news. I know one of my cousins arrived on one of the scenes just after the explosion and was injured trying to lift something or someone - also haunted for the rest of her life by what she witnessed.

We lived in Belfast and had relatives in Dublin. My uncle was a journalist and used newswires to keep in contact with us via the Belfast office. It was like wartime when o e of these events happened. Phone lines were so busy.
So I remember it because the event was Dublin not Belfast.

So many wasted lives.