[QUOTE] Try E45 skin cream. Works a treat. Waterproofs leather and feeds it. Cheap too...[/QUOTE] Waterproofs, does it? Checked yours out today, have you? I don't ask in an inflammatory manner, but I do recall someone Formerly Of This Parish who was adamant that rubbing six coats of baby oil into her leather jeans would waterproof them, in the face of all sorts of reasoned (and doubting) opinion. All was well, until the fateful day of the cloudburst BOTAFOT ... Her legs turned as blue as the air around her ;-)