Monday and it's International No Socks Day !!

So today is the day to free your feet ! 

It seems trendy with hipsters at the moment to go without.

I must admit, I rarely wear them myself.......but, not for the reason

you probably think.

As most of you know, I own ? manage a little fellah called Albert.

He's part Jack Russell part piranha.....

His fetish is my underwear, pants and socks.

As a consequence I don't own one matching pair of socks and,

when it comes to pants, well lets just say, if your going to an

adult lingerie, I can save you a lot of money, and provide free

crotchless pants !

I love my socks

upon my feet

They make my

toes look really neat

They soak up sweat

or keep me warm

They smell so bad

like chloroform

Athletes foot

and verrucas sore

They disappear in my

black whole drawer

But worst of all

they're Albert's chew

and I have to pick them

out of his poo !!

Fun Facts About Socks

A recent survey revealed that 676 million socks are lost in the UK every year. 

The oldest known socks were found in Egypt and date back to between the years 250 and 420. 

The word sock came into Old English from the Latin soccus, a loose-fitting shoe or slipper. The modern meaning arrived around 1400. 

Around 1600, one meaning of the verb “to sock” was “to sew a corpse into a shroud”. 

Albert Einstein never wore socks. He gave them up as a child, annoyed at the holes made by big toes. 

A thousand-year-old Viking sock from Coppergate, York was included among the BBC’s 100 items that tell the History Of The World. - AND I'VE SEEN IT !!

Until 2013, standard Russian military uniform used foot cloths instead of socks.

An ornamental pattern in silk thread on the side of a sock or stocking is called a “clock”. 

The Merry Wives Of Windsor is the only Shakespeare play that mentions socks. 

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