Magic Slippers

My wife grew up in the south of France, I grew up just north of Newcastle. I am sure you can understand that there is a slight difference in climate between the two places. Basically that meant that I grew up with carpets and she grew up with tiled floors. Given the fact we have a well balanced relationship we therefore "decided" to have tiles throughout our house. Unfortunately one of my other pet hates in life is walking bare foot on cold surfaces. Therefore I always make a point of taking the slippers from the hotel room each week to make sure I don't have to walk on cold surfaces at home during the weekend. I am sure that all my friends and guests to the house have the same pet hate (this is not the case), and as a result I typically thrust a pair of "Radisson SAS", "Sheraton" or "APEX" slippers into the hands of people who arrive at my house. I've had to travel a lot this week (too much), but it's been a bumper slippers week. I've been away 5 nights but take back a haul of 6 pairs of slippers (you must always check the cupboard because they often leave a second pair there). Extremely small and scant consolation for being away from home, but I'm just trying to look on the bright side. I'm off to the airport now and can't wait to get home.