Sheep's fleeces

Many moons ago I went to the Wool Marketing Board's place in Mid Wales where they received the fleeces, weighed and graded it, paid the farmers and packed the wool into huge bales to be sold on to textile companies.
One of the Graders showed me round and, to my amazement, asked me to hold his hand!! For a weather beaten old chap, his hands were as soft as a babies. He told me that the the lanolin in the wool, that he handled daily, kept his skin soft!!............So I must ask, are Bob's hands soft?

Hell no !   . But then he’s not worked with sheep apart from helping out very rarely for the last 11 years.
they weren’t soft when he was shepherding full time either.

I always had course rough hands when I was working outdoors but now I am retired and have become a carer, my hands are like a baby's bottom. I even need to use a tea towel to open a carton of milk. I used to pride myself on a strong handshake as I had shaken hands with blokes who's handshake was like a wet lettuce! If I had a wet lettuce handshake I would top myself!