A lovely Spring day today, the weather doesn\u2019t really justify knee high boots but I\u2019m wearing my funky electric blue ones anyway. Lots of compliments, but they don\u2019t know my guilty secret: I haven\u2019t shaved my legs for a week. It was boots or tights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A lovely Spring day today, the weather doesn\u2019t really justify knee high boots but I\u2019m wearing my funky electric blue ones anyway. Lots of compliments, but they don\u2019t know my guilty secret: I haven\u2019t shaved my legs for a week. 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