questions..questions..re odd, abandoned shoe discoveries. do you think people just arrive home, after completing a lovely spring walk, and discover they have inadvertently lost a shoe, or do some people take old pairs of shoes out with them, and use them in a kind of 'hansel and gretel' way (marking their route home so as not to get lost)?

i've often thought the same.

i wonder if it's related to the latest craze for hopping which is sweeping the south of england.