May 9th 2015 - Sock heat bag

May 9th 2015 - Sock heat bag

My knee is causing me lots of pain at the moment, and I have no idea why as I haven't done anything.  The most annoying thing is that I can't find my microwave heat bag to put on it. So I went on pinterest to see if I could how to make one.

I found a pin about making a a heat bag from a pair of socks and some rice.  I followed the instructions and filled 1 of the socks with rice,tied a knot in it, placed it inside the other sock and then heated it in the microwave, the pin says for 1minute 40seconds, but after 1minute it was already boiling hot, not sure if my microwave was higher power etc.

But it worked as a heat bag, although the rice doesn't stay as hot for as long as my wheat bag.  But until I can find it this will work as a short term one.

1 bag of rice

1 sock

put rice in sock

tie knot in sock

place inside other sock

March 12th 2015 - Stretching shoes

March 12th 2015 - Stretching shoes

Last week I bought a pair of shoes off ebay because I need a low heeled pair to go with my St John Ambulance uniform for our enrollment/presentation evening in a few weeks and couldn't find any in town that I liked or were comfy.

These shoes were listed as a size 7, which is good as that is what I am in most shoes.  However when they arrived they have a great big 6 on the sole, which isn't so good.  I did contemplate complaining to the seller  but for the sake of £3.79 (including postage) I didn't think it was worth it and would could me more than that to send them back.  I have tried them on and they are a bit on the tight side across the top of my foot and against my big toes.

Then I remembered that I had pinned this random pin about stretching shoes by wearing loads of socks and using a hair dryer - I can do that as have socks and a hair dryer.  So I started off with 1 pair of socks on and a couple of mins under the hair dryer, removed them and tried shoes on without socks, they were still a bit tight.  So we went for a 2nd pair of socks.  Although this did feel that they were stretching slightly after a total of mins the sole of one of the shoes had come unstuck.

So I can safely say that stretching shoes with extra socks and a hair dyrer doesn't work.  This is a pinterest fail.  And I now have a pair of shoes that are still tight and have had to glue the sole back onto them and need find another pair asap.