Socks and sandals - or scandals according to Dr Graeme Garden on a recent edition of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue... Well, I confess to this being my normal choice of footware, but only in the winter months, and only when wearing my Dr Martin boots seems a tad extravagent. Comfort's the thing here; comfort and convenience indeed, as with most things in life.

And since when were folkies ever so shallow as to be hung up on fashion? One would have thought the folk world the very (nay, perhaps the only) place a chap might wear scandals without drawing comment.