We do have a back door right now, but it leads to this balcony, which leads to nowhere.
I’m currently obsessing over the prospect of being able to keep my wellies by the back door of my new home.
These days, after I have used my wellies on a country walk or holiday I bring them home and leave them in a plastic bag, either getting in the way by the front door or on the balcony for a few days/weeks. Eventually I’ll clean off the mud in the kitchen sink and put them away in a cupboard until the next time I manage to break out of the orbit of our mudless city streets.
When we live in the country, my boots will be in constant use, so they will live by the back door ready to be stepped into at any moment. If I do need to clean them, I’ll just wash them off under the garden tap or hose pipe.
And that will be magic.
I wish I had a photo of the long row of rubber boots (or “bottes de rubber” as called them) that we kept in the hallway by the back door when I was a kid, growing up on our farm. There were at least 5 pairs. We had a system of putting them on flattened cardboard boxes that we’d change every so often.
comment by Jo-Anne — March 27, 2010 @ 10:36 am
Clio has sent us an illustrated response to this post: a proposal for a back door boot cleaning facility.
comment by emily — April 9, 2010 @ 10:29 am
[...] there were wellies outside the backdoor when we were having a look [...]
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