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9 Jun 2008

Treat your feet with kindness, treat them with respect

David Wainwright’s Feet is a rather sweet song from a charity compilation for children called Colours Are Brighter. The Guardian described it as “a genuinely funny, cautionary tale about pestering one’s nan for fashionable trainers”, so now you know. Thanks to Peter

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