Under a sky so pure and luminous that it seemed like a thinly drawn veil of blueness, which ought to have been transparent, stretched what, from a short way off, resembled a desert of pale clay. No patch of green offered rest to the eye; not a tree, hardly a stunted bush had been left standing, either on the bottom of the vast shallow basin itself, or on the several hillocks that dotted it and formed its sides. Even the most prominent of these, the Black Hill, which jutted out on the Flat like a gigantic tumulus, had been stripped of its dense timber, feverishly disembowelled, and was now become a bald protuberance strewn with gravel and clay.

Writing in her 2007 style guide, That Extra Half Inch: Hair, Heels and Everything in Between, Posh slated the flat shoe. Describing her feet as "horrid", she added: "I beyond hate ballerina flats I can't even walk in them. Unless they're on a ballet dancer, I just don't get it..

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