Someone has parked…

[HorsePark]

A horse, an actual horse, complete with carriage outside my house and secured it to my drainpipe!

^^ that diagram wins today @Quatrophoenix

I used to live in Putney which the estate agent who sold us our flat described as an "almost semi rural location " but the local brewery used to deliver by horse and cart up to the top of Putney hill slowing all the traffic heading to the A3 to a crawl.

@HorsePark

Ok here is diagrams…

Best parking diagrams ever.

Did the horse go?

A few years ago when DD was smaller I picked up DD and a few of her friends from school, and we were walking home when we went past a house near us and they had a tiny Shetland pony tied up outside their garage. There was a big stone on the ground next to the garage with a ring in it, and the pony was tethered to that. DD and friends were fascinated by this! The stone is still there but we’ve never seen the pony again. No idea what it was there for as there was nobody around to ask.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 but where’s the diagram?

@Hesma

🤣🤣🤣🤣 but where’s the diagram?

About page 3.....didn't you read the full thread? Lol

What are the chances with a username like yours?

I bet the whole thing is buggying you!

The Control of Horses Act 2015 states that if a horse is left on someone's land, the land owner has the authority to send it to a safe place.

Where I used to live the neighbours to the back of me built a horse cart in their back garden (I had a clear view from an upstairs window). However after building it they realised it was too big to wheel down the path so they couldn't get it out of their back garden. This thread has reminded me of that.

Several friends/family were called upon to try and solve the drama. Not sure if they had to dismantle it in the end to get it out. Anyway a few days later a horse appeared in their back garden. Totally puzzling. I moved not long after that.

@FairyPrincess123

What are the chances with a username like yours?

I'm guessing the username was chosen after the horse was parked at her house!

Its given me the giggles on a Saturday morning

We get them running up and down the roads near me. A family keep them in their front drive it stinks

Did talking about it all evening make you a 'little ho(a)rse'?

Fuck me, what sort of idiot tethers a horse to something like a drainpipe!

In all seriousness, if the horse pulled back it would likely take the pipe off the wall, possibly getting injured in the process. And if the owners are stupid enough/don't GAF to do something like that I don't hold out much hope for the rest of their animal husbandry abilities It's not really that funny when you think about it

@londonmummy1966

I used to live in Putney which the estate agent who sold us our flat described as an "almost semi rural location " but the local brewery used to deliver by horse and cart up to the top of Putney hill slowing all the traffic heading to the A3 to a crawl.

Totally off topic, but I grew up in Wandsworth and used to love seeing the Young’s brewery horses.

@londonmummy1966

I used to live in Putney which the estate agent who sold us our flat described as an "almost semi rural location " but the local brewery used to deliver by horse and cart up to the top of Putney hill slowing all the traffic heading to the A3 to a crawl.

I used to work in the City of London and the Whitbread brewery shire horses were a regular sight. They lived in stables close to the Barbican and all the local inner city children had seen blacksmiths at work , which is probably something many country children had never seen. It was always in the local paper when the horses went to the whitbread farm for their “summer holiday” with glorious pictures of them let loose in fields. They sadly aren’t there any more.

I was once walking past the old Geffre (spelling ? but it’s not called that any more) very early in the morning, when suddenly an unaccompanied loose horse trotted down the street towards me, I was too shocked to do anything but step out of its way.

I was leaving work one day when one of my students came trotting up the drive and shouted that she’d forgotten her Art homework and could I hold her pony. Our yard was literally round the corner. It was a bitey little bugger. I was not thrilled.

I worked in the City in the mid 70s and 80s and remember the beautiful shire horses pulling the brewery delivery carts with all the beer barrels. (And not just in the city either, around Dalston and Hackney too, in the 60s.)
I well remember the Geffrye museum in Bethnal Green - is it now called the Museum of Childhood? It was a bit dull, tbh.

Quality thread!

@SiobhanSharpe

I worked in the City in the mid 70s and 80s and remember the beautiful shire horses pulling the brewery delivery carts with all the beer barrels. (And not just in the city either, around Dalston and Hackney too, in the 60s.) I well remember the Geffrye museum in Bethnal Green - is it now called the Museum of Childhood? It was a bit dull, tbh.

I live in a brewery town up north. Beer is delivered from the brewery to the local pubs by horse and cart. During lockdown 1 you could get beer deliveries to your house by horse and cart too. It was awesome.

There's a lot of white on the latest horse photo posted. For a black horse. It doesn't look like the horse in the first photo. Not just my opinion either.

I heard it straight from the horse's mouth.

Sorry folks, but I suspect this is a bit of a pantomime horse

Hope the dog has calmed down and not the worse for the shock of the appearance of the horse, and sorry for doubting your GCSE Art qualifications, OP.

I wond

Post the photo - then delete it in a few hours’ time