Keep the mud outdoors! You can make this handy boot scraper by welding or bolting together three pieces of angle iron. Gardens and pastures can be messy places to work, especially after a good rain.

Every day millions of New Yorkers walk along the miles of paved sidewalks, likely oblivious to the fact that walking city streets didn’t become a passtime until the mid-18th century in Europe when ...

Prized by antique dealers, revered by history buffs, but an object of puzzlement to many a 21st century pedestrian, the humble boot-scraper is back in the spotlight in its favoured home, Belgium.