that's the link I linked to above Red. Could have saved yourself a Google 
I'm not familiar with Derry Girls (I needed subtitles due to the accent and speed of speech but couldn't find them, is it worth me attempting again?). Anyhow, assuming that's a sarcastic 'unshakeable principles', probably very accurate, I'm always open to a better argument being out there. I do not get on with entrenched ideologues at all. If you're into the nonsense, I'm an INTJ according to that I should be more interested in aligning thoughts rather than (collective) feelings and even though I think MB is nonsense that does sound somewhat accurate.
Bloomed, ehm whilst I'd love a RO collection for moi, I must admit after reading a few articles about RO and his wife and their dinner parties, that I'd be worried I'd somehow end up without a stitch on, bar a pair of furry RO Birkenstocks, screaming 'I'm Meret Oppenheimer's Le Déjeuner en fourrure!' with no drinking involved and no idea how that happened 
(For the record not insinuating anything predatory on their part, some people just have an energy that make otherwise ridiculously annoyingly sensible people like me actually lose sense around and that pair seems to own that two fold, it would all have been my own decision, and that's the scary part).
Gerard Darel is boring but kind in acknowledging the middle age spread which is like hen's teeth in France. Also they allow women to shop in 'normal' sizes for longer, which again rare. They make inoffensive quality clothes for the bourgeois, it's a boring but a legitimate market. Before Céline became a big luxury fashion house, they did the same thing for a wealthier clientele.
GD did get sold a couple of years ago and has changed a bit and gone very international. Notably to the US and I'm not surprised it's doing well there in their demographic but it'll be a difficult demographic (worldwide) to sustain. As Flo rightly points out her generation and more strongly the ones after it have been accustomed to fashion as suitable for all ages where GD has always profited from the harsh cut off point of 'age appropriate'. It's attitude that determines whether something is appropriate to wear now or not. And attitude is something that GD doesn't seem to have much of.
Back to boots, spotted some online at Massimo Dutti that could be a good filler pair. They're a bit of a Chloe rip off but no seam on the middle so I actually quite like them in the plain leather but they might just be too slouchy. But potentially they could actually fit. I can't remember if they participate in BF/CM or not. Anyone remember?