The boss's boots are laid out ready for shining by John (Bongile Mantsai); his mother, Christine Thokozile Ntshingaa), is still working, and has been since sunrise, her fingers so worn that when she tried to vote she had no fingerprints to prove her identity.
I admired the symmetry of the boat's lines, the neatly-organized boots and slicker laid out like clothes before the first day of school.
"From the moment he first laid boot on ball," wrote Sir Alex Ferguson in My Autobiography, "David Beckham displayed an unbreakable urge to make the best of himself and his talent".
On a nearby stretch of ground, I saw the uniforms of a dozen firefighters left in piles, jackets laid over boots with the sleeves neatly folded.
With a bluntness that betrays his roots in engineering rather than architecture, Owen Williams laid out Boots' 1932 Nottingham manufacturing complex to a functionalist design.
Like Lena Dunham's Girls but more realistic and with black women in, Guinevere Turner (later to make her name as the screenwriter of American Psycho) plays the cool 90s New York dyke in back-to-front baseball cap and big boots trying to get laid.
These kids want to change the world, create great art and get laid to boot.
Off-season signing Johnson booted two goals and laid a few hard hits on ex-team-mates in the hearty 13.11 899) to 11.10 (76) victory at a sold-out Manuka Oval on Sunday.
Finally, as a 41-year-old in 1970 he laid aside his boots, although not before being voted domestic football's defender of the season.
