“Yes, it’s a sharp blade at the end of a long stick, so the potential to be harmful is there, but scythes are safe if they’re treated with respect,” she says. For a scythe to be effective, that curved ...

If you don't have the muscles of Poldark – and let's be honest, who does – then it's pretty obvious why scythes belong in our past William Sitwell is the restaurant critic and a columnist for The ...

I recently bought my husband a scythe. Oh, how we’d have chortled about it back in the day, and yet already it feels like the most magical of garden tools, a secret weapon against the long, coarse ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When my dad died, his scythe was hanging on its peg in his tool barn. He was the type of man who had pegs for ...