Re: Radishes? Really?

Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> 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
> 
Wow, that brush really does the trick. I like this one for my house,
strictly for decorative porpoises.

https://www.lehmans.com/product/lehmans-boot-scraper

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