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[HorsePark]

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

Killing time before a site visit in Hull once, I decided to take a look at the street in a satellite town where DM grew up. Neat rows of interwar semis with the usual signs about no ball games etc. - and "No riding of horses on the grass verges ".

Also I 've worked most of my life as a civil servant in what used to be a 'superdepartment', with people in government offices all over England. There was a survey done on how we commuted to work. Cue complaint (not serious) from one person that there was no scope to put "horse" on the form- apparently she rode to the office several times a week.

@TheRealMrsMac

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

I assumed it was a piebald?

@Doggirl

Killing time before a site visit in Hull once, I decided to take a look at the street in a satellite town where DM grew up. Neat rows of interwar semis with the usual signs about no ball games etc. - and "No riding of horses on the grass verges ".

Also I 've worked most of my life as a civil servant in what used to be a 'superdepartment', with people in government offices all over England. There was a survey done on how we commuted to work. Cue complaint (not serious) from one person that there was no scope to put "horse" on the form- apparently she rode to the office several times a week.

At great risk of outing myself here, I grew up in Hull and we used to ride our horses on the grass verges. We rode everywhere. The council estates were the best places to ride, loads of verges to gallop along! The garden villages were quite good too. Everyone tethered their ponies on rough ground. Lots of people had them, it wasn’t just for rich kids.

@TheRealMrsMac black is the main colour, it did also have some white. It also had a distinctive small white mark on its face which is why I only posted half its face. To protect its identity

I can assure you this is 100% genuine. It was certainly a surprise to us!

@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.

It is now called the Museum of the Home, the Museum of Childhood is an outreach of the V and A I think and is in Bethnal Green.

There is a 'no horse racing' sign on the A27...honestly..I'm not horsing around 🤣

What happened?????

Is there a pic before I trawl through 13 pages and be disappointed if OP didn’t post one lol

Mumsnetters have excelled themselves- this has made my weekend - best thread ever I am crying with laughter. First post I have read all the way through. Awaiting a pony to be dropped off at my house now.. a new trend?

Reminds me of the boosh zoo 🤣

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Omg this has made my day 😁 loving your pictures,glad I didn't have do draw it,I just think someone is horsing around 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎

Is it still there? (Getting a bit worried now)

@Hyenaormeercat

There is a 'no horse racing' sign on the A27...honestly..I'm not horsing around 🤣

That's probably to stop people exercising their trotting horses and sulkies up and down the road. There's a dual carriageway near me that is sometimes used by people doing that early on Sunday mornings. They don't half go fast.

I desperately want to see a photo !

Does seem to be a trotter and trotting sulky.. they absolutely go like the clappers and give me the wobbles - ive seen carriage related accidents and they tend to be nasty, when I worked with driving horses it honestly filled me with fear I never knew when I worked with ridden horses!

#crying. Not read through the comments but finding this so funny. DH and I finding this funnier that it maybe is.

That's going to be hard to move... can u separate the two and then create space or something

Hire it out for weddings on eBay...

Well I came out of my house once and there was a camel tied to a tree opposite and no I don’t live in Egypt, I had a few very funny moments then I realised the circus was setting up on some nearby waste ground.

🤣🤣 Brilliant! Love a post like this! I think a photo is absolutely necessary xx

Post it
Post it
Post it
Pleeeeeeeease

@Sooziewoozie and @Ohyesiam she did.

Well thats set the standard for all future parking threads.....it now has to contain at least one horse to be worthy of the title!!

Wins the internet for me!

Lucky you!

@Insanelysilver

I desperately want to see a photo !

If you look back through @HorsePark ‘s posts there are some