In lieu of any actual weblog content of insight and intellectual value I present you with a photograph of my toe.
Actually, I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. When I was moving out of the house in Kingstanding back in May I had to rebuild the fitted wardrobe in my room – essentially hanging the heavy floor-to-ceiling sliding doors back up. The doors were down because, being cheap and shit, they didn’t slide, but for the sake of the deposit they had to go back.
I did this job wearing slippers. My brain assumed I was wearing steel toecapped boots. I wound up with a black toenail.
And now, seven months later, that blackness has very nearly grown away. I was going to wait until it had completely gone but an absence of black toenail does not a good photo make.
So from now on my habitation shall be measured in terms of toenails, specifically those belonging to the big toe. In June 2006 I shall have been in Bournville for 2 BTNs, January 2007 will be 3 BTNs, and so on.
That is only half a toe-nail,the 2mm strip of ‘raw’ flesh gives it away, you have clearly been too eager to see the time go by. Does it not freak you out to feel the wool of winter socks rub against the raw bit? I’d recommend leaving 2mm the otherside of short, just incase you ever find yourself needing grip in an icy crevasse or some other slippary situation.
PS have loved GDFAF!
This is intriguing. As a serial nail biter (and bloke, which is probably relevant) I consider any protrusion nail a candidate for chopping. In my view the nail stops when it leaves the toe. That nail was freshly cut, hence the apparent “rawness”, but on the whole, having worn hefty boots for most of my life (though I have moved to trainers this last summer) I don’t have a tremendous amount of feeling in my toes. In fact a few mm of nail feels wrong as it catches on the socks.
I’d be interested in other people’s opinions on this…
Scissors or clippers? From that neat curve I’m thinking scissors.
Clippers, in two or three moves. You get to be quite the expert after a while.
Oddly enough I only use nail scissors for nasal hair.
Erk! And, perchance…. ewww! You really must think of another way to crop those toe talons. I could have sworn that I’ve never seen Boots advertising doors as the new pedicure tool….