Should guests take their shoes off at the door?

Ihadn’t heard from Roy Biddle in nearly thirty years when he called my home number. This was 1991, and an October day when brown, slippery leaves coated the pavement outside our west London house. Roy

DO you think this pair look comfortable?” I was in a shoe shop when I overheard this question. The speaker was a middle-aged lady. I was relieved to find that she’d been addressing her remark to the a

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I’M a reasonable woman, I like to think. Having been around for three decades now, I’ve seen a bit of life. Take my job, for instance, in the shoe shop – we get all sorts of customers. Most are lovely