I have always had a problem with poor circulation. When I was at university, I would wake up with “white finger”. The doctor told me I would grow out of it. Maybe I did. Or maybe, once I started working and I could afford to heat my home properly. Either way it stopped being a problem.

But I am now a “struggling writer”. The days of milk, honey and cheap power have gone. Along with mind numbering boredom, machine coffee and office politics, so I am still happy with my decision to write full-time.

As heating the flat all day is something of a luxury and I am now afflicted with the writer’s curse of cold feet. Since I started working from home, I have become a two pairs of woolly socks man, October through May.

I blame the man in the flat below. If he kept his flat warmer, my floor would be warmer, so my feet would be too.

Then one day, for some reason, I didn’t change my shoes for slippers when I came in as I normally do. The cold feet problem was much alleviated.

Now, I can’t remember making a decision to wear slippers. I still don’t consider myself a “Slipper Wearing Man”. But apparently sometime in the last decade I became one. My Mum usually buys me a pair for Christmas. Perhaps I started to wear them rather than waste a perfectly good pair of slippers.

I think it is a psychological. When I get home; I take off my shoes and put on slippers. It rests my feet and makes me feel home. I relax.

But the soles of slippers are not very thick, so no matter how furry they are, the heat leaks though the bottom. It took me two years to work this out. If I was still an engineer instead of a writer I probably would have got it in a week at the most

I have abandoned slippers.

Then, this last week it has been very cold. So I braved the January sales to buy myself some hiking boots to wear when I am writing. I got a bargain, a £90 pair of lovely warm “all weather” boots for £26.

This has to be the first time in weeks that I have had warm feet all day. I am writing more. This is the second article today.

Warm Feet = Increased Productivity

Now there’s a tip you would never find on any writers’ site.

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