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Fairtrade blog: Day three

Sally from Newcastle’s Shared Interest – the world’s only 100% fairtrade lender - continues her daily blog for Fairtrade Fortnight.

My love-hate relationship with socks stems from being affectionately named Sally Socks as a child. Having named me Sally, my dad seemed to think he had to find a suitable alliterative name for me, yep you’ve guessed it ‘Sally Socks’ was born. My dad and his comedy genius didn’t stop there though. Oh no, the name was accompanied by the age old and ‘hilarious’ trick of tying my socks together; I would go to walk away and fall over like Maggie from The Simpsons, ha, ha….ha. Thanks dad!

Well, I’m pleased to say that I have put the days of Sally Socks behind me and I’ve managed to move on. Obviously I wear socks, but I must admit I have never paid close attention to my sock choice. As long as they are clean and none holey I am not usually fussed, unless they are those creepy ones with the individual toes, they scare me!

Fair trade cotton is fast making its way into the mainstream, from t shirts to towels and most things in between, including…that’s right, you guessed it, socks! I picked mine up from Bristol based Bishopston Trading. The fair trade cotton in the socks is sourced from India and used in to produce a variety of items, many of which can be found on the Bishopston website.

So back to the socks, in the comfort of my living room they are certainly as good as my regular socks, but how will they fare in the outside world? While I’m certainly no athlete I have, for some silly reason, agreed to do a 10k run for the Shared Interest Foundation! So I thought I might as well multitask and give these fair trade socks a ‘run’ for their money.

As you can see in my video post, the socks certainly held up better than me! They are incredibly soft and very comfortable, although given the choice I’d rather wear them to watch TV! What do you think? Will you be getting your socks off for Fairtrade_?_

Click here to watch Sally’s video report.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .