Replies For Lucy's Stories - Page 5

TabascoTesa · 20th April 2004, 05:00

Lucy, I'm sure you've heard this already, but you write beautifully-- with such an elegance and refinement of days past that I can only imagine!! You had a passion, you stuck with it, and you reveled in it through all kinds of circumstances. I can't wait to see more of this story--it's such a joy to read and you have me hooked, even though I'm really new here. Thanks for your kind comments on the old board as well--I've moved over here now. I was "Girl with Bunions" but I think this name is a little nicer. :)

Lucy · 20th April 2004, 09:03

Hi Shoelover! I'm delighted that you appreciate my Story (so far!). I do hope you can find the dual satisfaction of getting relief from your bunion problem whilst still being able to wear lovely high heels. I can't imagine life without being able to wear mine!

I see that this was only your third posting. Welcome to these wonderful Forums. It is worth reading them right through if you have time - all the threads on all of the specific Forums. Long may you thrive and benefit from our mutual world of high heels, and I hope we can all look forward to more of your postings!

Love, Lucy

Dawn HH · 20th April 2004, 23:59

Lucy:-)

Your stories are extremely interesting to read and I have read all of them since the very first one. I am looking forward to reading more episodes until you tell us the story is done. Your efforts are not unnoticed. Cheers---

Dawn HH

JeffM · 24th April 2004, 15:03

Hi Lucy
I have a major question to ask you.

I have noticed at least over the last 6 or 8 chapters of your life in high heels that the phones rings just as you get to a crucial point in your story.

At least that is how it occurs to me. It is not that I am reading your stories, but that you are telling me about some thing that has happened in your life and just as you get to a crucial point in the telling your phone rings and you go to answer it. When you have finished you then announce that, that is all for this time and I have to wait until another day for another chapter.
Either that or you are a huge tease always leaving your reader up in the air about what is going to happen next. But there is no next until you have time to write more.

If this is how you treated your Clarence for most of his life then I feel sorry for the poor guy, though I feel that he probably loved you more for it.

I love your style Lucy, what you write about and how you write. May you live to be 1000 years old so that we might have your stories to entertain us.

Warm regards
Jeff

Lucy · 24th April 2004, 21:48

Thank you for your message, Jeff.

As in many serials, it's nice to finish the occasional episode with a "cliffhanger", if only to do one's humble best to try and keep the readers interested.

But then, that's just what you've just done to poor little me. The start of your message intrigued me by promising a "major question", and here I am, still waiting for it! I'm agog! It's my turn to be sitting on the edge of my chair, my knuckles white in anticipation!

Love, Lucy

JeffM · 25th April 2004, 02:29

Ah Lucy
Tit for tat, doesn’t it feel good? :D

And now my major question has created a question, as it does quite often, for you.
But you see you have already answered my question.
Even though you don’t know what my question is.
So because I know the answer now,
There is no need to tell you the question, is there?
:rofl: :rofl:

Bets wishes
Jeff.

TabascoTesa · 25th April 2004, 16:30

Lucy, you have me completely addicted to your stories! I've found myself reading through them a few more times because of how entrancing they are. Please keep it up! :)

Random question: In the early/mid sixties (where your story is now) what did you wear for casual, bumming-around-the-house, we're-not-going-anywhere-today garb?

Next random question: How many more fantastic high-heel events went on that didn't stand out in your mind as clearly as all of these? Because--what an amazing wellspring of information! I don't even remember events from 5 years ago this clearly! Usually if I remember something it's because I had a particularly good time, so it sounds like almost every day was a new adventure in shoes for you.

What a great way to live :)

Keep 'em coming!

Lucy · 26th April 2004, 08:31

Hi TT! I'm delighted to read that you are enjoying my stories so much!

For bumming around the house, then (as now) I have never gone in for half-measures ie medium-height heels. It's always been all or nothing! Because I enjoy wearing ultra-high heels so much at both business and in my social life, most of my "home" time is spent using those few all-important hours of the day going completely flat in order to keep my Achilles (calf) tendons stretched and normal. Therefore I either go barefoot or slip my feet into flatties - usually flat mule sandals with a low-cut toe-strap. In the late fifties and early sixties, these were Dr Scholls' wooden-soled sandals. These days other manufacturers have made more elegant versions substituting the wooden sole for thinner, lighter leather. I love a low-cut toe strap for the maximum slap-slap-slap (very sensuous), but so many mules have a toe/foot strap which is too wide and set to high - right up on the instep.

However, on weekends, usually Sundays, if I am staying at home with no outdoor high-heeling involved, I'll reach for my favourite 5 1/4" stiletto mules (again with low-set toe straps) and thoroughly enjoy slapping around the house in those for part of the day. The overall finish is a sort of very fine towelling covering which is very soft and comfortable. I love such shoes with plain, elegant lines and can't abide 'bedroom' mules which are cluttered with big bows or masses of fluffy adornment or 'flowery' additions which smother the line of the foot!

Regarding my reminiscences of my life in high heels, yes, there were far more events and happenings that I have not included in my Story. However, I have left many out because they are very similar to the ones that I have included, and I try to avoid the chapters getting repetitious and boring. Also, the question of space arises. Even having only written 44 chapters to date, I reckon that's probably already over 60,000 words, which is the length of the average paper-back novel! Plus I have to respect the fact that archive space must be valuable on these Forums.

For some reason, I don't find it all all difficult to recall the vast majority of those high heel moments, probably because at such times I was enjoying myself so much and psyched up to the peak of my awareness. I've forgotton many of the more drab and mundane parts of my life, but at the times when my high-heel-waering was involved, I never regarded those times as drab and mundane!

I think you summed it up perfectly when you said that almost every day was a new adventure in shoes for me! Bless you!

Love, Lucy

TabascoTesa · 26th April 2004, 17:50

I, too, am very all-or-nothing when it comes to heels. It's either high or it's flat! ;) You sound kind of like me--I have a pair of cheap slide sandals for slopping around the house in, and in the winter I'll throw on some cheap slippers.

What sort of clothing did you wear on lazy days around the house, during the setting of your story currently? You speak of lots of very elegant businesswear and things you wore going out, but what was standard "not going anywhere" apparel?

I'm only 22, so I don't know what it was like then--that's why I'm picking your brain for this stuff. :)

Dawn HH · 27th April 2004, 02:11

Lucy:-)

I have just read chapter 44 in your story. Excellent reading as usual. I'll be watching for chapter 45 in the on-going saga of Lucy and her high heel wearing friends. Good show! Cheers---

Dawn HH :D