>a) Babies rule. Especially Mark, who improved my day enormously.
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> b) climbing shoes rule. Especially my Torros, which Mark wanted but couldn't have because size 10s just wouldn't fit him.
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> Bourne

I'd just like to point out something that everyone seems to have missed...I love your shoes! They are very cool and I would have included a link to the new shoes that I have just bought but try as I might, I can't seem to find them on the internet. They aren't climbing shoes but they are red and look a little like Noddy's shoes..wait you won't know him...oh yes you will,you're British..sorry...anyway..they're red suede-like stuff with a square-ish toe and yellow laces. They sound horrible but trust me...they're wonderous.

Also, yes, children are great. They're just so interesting and they believe everything you tell them and will treat you like a long lost aunt within 10 minutes of knowing them. I used to teach Sunday School until I went away to Uni and I used to love it. I also go into my local primary school sometimes and kinda help out. I made Easter biscuits with them the other day and it was just so much fun. I think my Mum would really love me to become a teacher (she was one, as were both grandmothers, one uncle, both aunts, one godmother etc etc) and it's something I'm definately thinking about when I've left University.

Oh, just curious, do you climb rocks or climbing walls or both? Or is that a really dumb question? If you climb walls, the University of East Anglia has one of the largest in England. Or so I'm told. The cafe in the sports centre is sort of built around the climbing wall so you can sit and drink tea and feel unfit as human spiders scale up an artificial vertical cliff face.

Liz