Re: Best waterproof treatment for leather boots?

Andy Hall wrote:

[1] and years out of date. I remember going round and round and round a Walls ice-cream factory somewhere in The Midlands because they'd built a motorway...

[2] The sort of thing the AA website can do now in seconds, but this was all done on an Imperial Model 7 typewriter.

Was this done before or after the ironing with the iron plugged into an adaptor that went in the light socket, and were the Archers on the wireless? You didn't mention the Ovaltine.

Nah - she was listening to 'Dick Barton - Special Agent'!
Anyone, remember that? It's also appropriate to this NG as the lead character was played by Duncan Carse, who spent some months alone on South Georgia. I believe the maps he produced are still used.

Jim Ford
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