Re: Radishes? Really?
vickiebee <[email protected]>
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Kerr-Mudd, John wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2024 06:02:44 -0500 vickiebee > <[email protected]> wrote: [] >> >> * the one with a boot-scraper by the front door for cleaning off... >> you know... > > Gosh. In the UK a (metal goalpost-style) bootscraper is a sign of a > posh house. More horses (for people who mattered) in those days. > > https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Late-Georgian-Boot-Scraper > > A snip at 475UKP! > > But that's not what I meant; terraced Georgian houses had them > built-in: > > https://cdn.ukaa.com/products/39/5082/georgian-built-in-stone-and-iron-boot-scraper-5082-KfRyJSzTWEeNLnS2i7qnzw.jpg > > > > How cool! Thanks for sending me down a merry little rabbit hole of antique boot scrapers (google images); reminding me of one outside my gran's kitchen door, and one by my country school house door, built into the cement. v ... already planning to ask Santa for one... -- https://www.thefarside.com/