20-hole Underground Rangers

So... I've spent most of the last couple of weeks laced up in my new 20-hole Rangers: "new" in the sense that I bought them off eBay a month or so ago.  Although the winning bid as I recall was £72, I traded in a load of Nectar points, and thus got them virtually half-price!  They're really nice boots, and I've been wearing them with long footie socks and shorts to display them to full advantage:

 

 

But since it was a nice morning, a little imprudently I wore them taking the dog for her weekly walk in the woods and managed to get them covered in mud, the result of an exceptionally wet winter and early spring this year.  Eek!

 

 

 

I was more than a little apprehensive at the prospect of possibly having trashed them, but I wore them in the shower (!) to rinse them off thoroughly and they came up good as new.  I guess the previous owner had cared for them and polished them well, but whatever the reason, they've turned out to be really robust boots and still look fantastic.  They do take a little while to put on, because I like my boots laced up fully right to the tops, but the effort is worth it! Well, I think so, anyway...