Re: Radishes? Really?
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On Wed, 15 May 2024 19:06:15 -0500 vickiebee <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Bootscrapers are of course still made, usually freestanding with a brush these days (see link for example) but I have seen the cement in variety in agricultural supply places alongside bootjacks. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XPY76KR -- Steve O'Hara-Smith Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/ For forms of government let fools contest Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope