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Just wanted to congratulate my Southern neighbours on a successful changing of the guard.

To be honest I couldn't bring myself to watch it live ~ I knew I'd be able to watch the recorded version at my leisure after the fact, but I was fearful that I'd be witnessing a different kind of history in the making.

I'm sure many others were breathing a collective sigh of relief, now that The Man is in the House and can start sorting out the mess that is his predecessor's legacy. Canadians are for the most part thrilled, and as philosopher John Ralston Saul said yesterday, in an interview on the CBC radio, "We all want to be up to our own measure and I think we are all happy when one of our friends, one of our neighbours is up to their own measure."

Indeed.

Something that annoys me about most doll shops is that when they offer shoes for sale they don't give you the measurements, in particular the *inside* measurement of the shoe.

Saying that the shoe size fits SD, MSD or YOsd is like saying *this shoe fits large, medium or small sized feet*

THAT depends on your definition of sizes and trust me ~ there is NO standard size for doll feet.

Doll shoe manufacturers and shop owners KNOW this.

They are either too lazy to bother putting the information up OR they don't care that customers will be pissed off with the fact their shoes fall off or are too small on the doll they were purchased for.

It's such a simple thing to measure the shoe that I don't understand why they withold this information. It would just be good for business to do this thing.

AND...no I've been lucky that I refuse to buy shoes from places that don't list the size or won't measure them for me upon request. Saying *the shoe fits most X-sized dolls* doesn't cut it when you are spending $40 for a pair shoes the size of an eraser. *rolls eyes*