| Love Those Rubber Boots Man!! - 54 |
| I hated wellies !! continued |
| I wore my Warwicks several times when I was an inspector of London buses, regulating one of the frequent west end bus routes. It was a very open air job with no cover. Rain made it very difficult, but my Warwicks frequently kept my feet dry. One very snowy evening, they were particularly valuable and I turned down the tops to walk about more easily. I had them on for 10 hours like that sloshing about in melting snow |
| I later bought a pair of shiny green short Finnish made Nokia Wellingtons in Oslo for travelling overseas. These were light and portable and comfortable to wear. I have worn these to death, needing no excuse to put them on. One day in France, I wore them for 15 hours during pouring rain. During the next 3 days in France and in Andorra in snow, I wore them constantly. I also wore them for 4 days in Inner Mongolia, photographing steam trains. It was November and minus 10 during the day, although sunny. With my pyjama trousers worn inside my tucked in jeans, my Nokia Wellingtons kept my legs very warm. It meant too, that I could cross the many frozen streams with the thin ice cracking under my feet. No one else in the party of 20 or so wore Wellingtons. |
| For travelling, I now have a pair of Sarek rubber Touring boots, which are light to carry and very comfortable to wear. You have read about some of my public life in Wellingtons. There are five more pairs, including rubber hip boots and riding boots, but I will not go into my private life with my Wellingtons, except to say it is very satisfying. Australia has a nice selection of elastic sided leather boots which can be worn by someone who is broadminded about Wellingtons. They are ankle boots in one piece, looking like a real Wellington under the jeans and very masculine when worn with shorts. I wear elastic sided boots all the time � that is when I am not in Wellingtons. I like wearing boots and really enjoy flaunting them to others. Usually, I am the only one wearing Wellington boots. Good! |
| In Australia, the Warwicks were eventually worn out. To replace them, I got a green pair of Hunters in UK when on a visit and these too have since worn out, travelling and on morning walks around my local park on wet grass. Wellingtons here are OK with shorts and I have been seen in Wellingtons, only wearing a tiny pair of tight shorts. I was cleaning some vintage buses for a group with which I was involved. When the vehicles had all been washed, I slipped down my shorts and wanked furiously. I still wear shorts and Wellingtons at the do-it-yourself carwash too, summer and winter. I have not seen anyone else wearing Wellingtons there, but who cares? People here accept that you are wearing wellies and that it is a normal statement like short shorts, a bare chest, jogging, cycling in very tight Lycra, elastic sided boots or wearing a suit when it is 39 degrees. |
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