Maybe I caught a Monday pair because with its predecessors, who for many years endured hardest stable loads, I was extremely happy. The last pair, however, the sole was not only expired after one year, but even by broken inside and in disarray. That was real scrap Blundstone - and for a lot of money. Since it does nothing that the vamp still looks like new and apparently light years better than the processed base: running you are doing now times on the sole. Pity!