Footwear for rambling

You could possibly make a case that Ugly Kid Joe's cover of Cat's In The Cradle is the greatest rock song ever recorded. I'm not sure how such a case would go but you could make a case. I'm pretty sure it would be wrong though. I think it may have as much claim on being the greatest rock song ever as I do on being the best shoemaker ever.

I've never tried making a pair of shoes or even a single shoe. I don't have the right tools, the right materials or a suitable workbench. Even if I did have these things I wouldn't know what to do with them. I never took shoemaking lessons at school. My best method for turning the shoe parts into shoes would be to go to bed and hope that the elves come like they did in the story.

I'm thinking of "The Elves and The Shoemaker" here by the way rather than "The Lord of the Rings". Tolkien could have had his elves making shoes but he instead chose to have them poncing around being too aloof to get into the footwear trade. I won't try and knock the man, it was his story after all. I'm just saying that if Galadriel had offered to treat with Sauron and arrange an exchange of good-quality elf-made slippers in exchange for two hundred years of peace, then a whole lot of mess would have been avoided and The Dark Lord could have sat by the fire (of Mount Doom), in his comfy slippers, and perhaps have found contentment.

I'd certainly be happy with a night of contentment, but then I have neither slippers nor a fire and so I feel that will not be happening tonight. Ah, sweet boredom. I'll have to return to listening to some tunes and wondering if it's still too early to go to bed.