Crossword clues

When I was pretty ill and could do almost nothing, I could sometimes manage to do bits of crosswords with someone reading the clues out and filling it in.  I was bought a puzzle selection magazine and gradually got myself back into being able to read without immense dizziness and nausea.  I’d look at a puzzle for a few seconds, fill in maybe just one or two clues, then put it down and rest.  Through doing this slowly and repeatedly, eventually I got well enough to return to reading maths and physics course materials.  An extremely slow process, but the only way to do it.  You can’t go over it, you can’t go under it, you can’t go round it, you have to go through it.

Now I subscribe to one of these magazines, because it reminds me that everything is achieved in small steps, that living is like a continuous function and you often can’t just jump from where you are to where you want to be.  You have to take baby steps.  Infinitely many baby steps.  

And I also get it because some of the clues are brilliant:

Sea army (4)

Land navy (4)

List of meals (4)

Yellow pudding sauce (7)

Convent woman (3)

Ruby —, hit for the Rolling Stones (7)

What completes the title of the Rolling Stones hit — Tuesday? (4)

Mens tramline shoes

 

I think these are called ‘tramline shoes’ but I am not entirely sure.  They are a type of shoe that businessmen often wear.  They taper off towards a point but get chopped off in a straight line before they reach that point.  They are usually black.  

Here is my specific shoe-spotting collection so far:

^ Exhibit A ^  A classic example, and the photo which began the collection.  

Nb. The shoe in the top right of the photograph is not, unfortunately, a tramline shoe.  Would I ever be so fortunate as to capture more than one example of the tramline shoe in a single photograph?  Surely that is nothing more than a crazy pipe dream?

^ Exhibit B ^ The second spotted tramline shoe.  Worn by a businessman with a long mane of silvery hair tied back into a ponytail and doing some coding.  But hang on – what’s this?…

^ Exhibit C ^ Not noticed at the time, but later on downloading the photos to the computer, there was revealed another candidate lurking in this picture.  Okay, it’s not the most extreme tramline shoe you will ever see, and the angle from which the photograph is taken does not help, but the tapering with the straight line across is definitely there.

However, the next tramline shoe photo did not take me by surprise and I appreciated it fully at the time:

^ Exhibit D ^ Yes, that’s right.  I had been in the presence of three pairs of tramline shoes, at close range.  

To Be Continued…