Cobblers

A visit to my local shoe-mender has alerted me to the fact that cobblers use hammers more or less identical to the backing hammers so beloved of bookbinders. That is not to say they are necessarily any cheaper, but you never know what you may find.

Incidentally, on another topic altogether we at LLL have decided to boycott Boots, whose new chief exec is the boy blunder of British banking - he didn't know his limitations in that industry and we are far from convinced that he knows them in this. "Pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap" may work ok in supermarkets, but it is not the philosophy we fancy underlying the purveyors of our medicaments.