Remembering shoe-cleaning
Sep. 17th, 2021 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I still find that my parents are much in mind. For me there is much to appreciate about my childhood with them. Earlier this week I finally got around to again polishing the leather shoes that I wear to work. As a child, cleaning our shoes was a weekly chore that I did with my father. The wooden brush that I used this week for applying the polish still bears his handwriting on the back.
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Date: 2021-09-19 02:36 pm (UTC)Possibly something about my paternal grandfather having been in the shoe-making business. And my dad having got his Queen's Scout award.
It stopped when my dad stopped being a salesman and started working shifts. Hence there couldn't be a regular time to do the group shoe-cleaning and he started going to work in his (new-fangled) trainers.
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