Holy Spit !
 

I have a drumming job tonight(funeral for a vet-ya right-the kind I really like) with a buddy piper,so I went out and bought a liquid shoe polish called-no pun intended to our down under brothers-Kiwi Honor Guard-High Gloss/ultra brilliant-instant SPIT shine-black,to shine my brouges(However you spell it-scottish shoes).
I put on two applications,using the old rotation method,now need sunglasses ,can see myself in the shiny glint.While doing the shine,thought back to when we'd get new boots from the Stores.1)steal a spoon. 2) Heat the damn spoon. 3) Apply spoon to the little bumps on the leather all over the DAMN boot. 4) Heat up the polish a little. 5) SPIT on both the damn boot and/or onto the Damn heated Nugget polish tin.Dream off into LaLa land while sitting there for three DAMN hours ON A SATURDAY NIGHT thinking where you could be-just because of Sunday morning inspection(They wanted to make sure everyone was back from you know what).Then the DAMN inspection by a OD(Officer of the Day) who has his own DAMN servant,then be told that you missed a spot-or it's not right on-whatever that damn well meant??
Rant over-OH by the way this stuff works.15 MINUTES !!! :salute:

Kiwi Boot polish is an Australian product dating from before WW1, but oddly has no direct NZ connection. This site says this about Kiwi polish: "Kiwi Shoe Polish - invented by Melbourne businessman William Ramsay together with his partner Hamilton McKellan in 1904 and launched as 'Kiwi' in 1906, this soon became and still remains the most successful shoe polish in the world. He chose the word 'Kiwi' because of his New Zealand wife."
Kiwi polish has been in service with the Australian Army for well over 90 years and is still in use.

Kiwi polish
 

And heres me thinkin' it was ours!