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Chris Green wrote:
Vir Campestris wrote:
As I chucked my disreputable old motorbike-come-gardening jacket in the
dustbin, it's finally too worn out, it occurred to me that it got
retired to gardening duties after I wrote off the bike.

In the early 1980s...

'bike gear is often good in other areas simply because of its
robustness. I have a pair of old 'bike boots which are near ideal for
strimming and such around the garden.

Quite. I keep getting requests for old clothing but, by the time
it is no longer fit even for gardening, ....

I used a pair of cheap motorcycling gauntlets for cycling, which
were ideal when it was bitterly cold or freezing rain - I rode
to work in almost all weather.

My first pair of gardening boots were my old walking boots, bought
when the British army changed from hobnailed to rubber ones - and,
when I threw them out, the looked much like this but without the
stuff above the ankle:

https://www.judaica-art.com/vincent-...oductions.html

My current ones are some Dickies steel-capped workboots, but some
decades of the organisms in my compost has almost destroyed the oil
and chemical resistant soles. I may have to but some more :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.