I took my horse to a car boot sale..

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And she liked it and scrounged an apple from a stall holder. A bit of a pointless post but she's only 5 and I wondered how she'd cope with the bouncy castle. As it transpired I think she rather fancied a go!!

Where is the daftest place you've ridden your horses?

and sorry I posted this in thelounge by mistake...
 
phew, thank goodness you cleared that up
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I thought you were going to say she was a bit big for the tressle table
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My old ponies used to pick me up from school, but nothing too unusual in that I guess
 
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I would have KILLED to be picked up from school by a pony!
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so would I! I always dreamed that one day I'd wake up and there would be a pony in the garden or I'd walk out of school and my mum would be standing there with one. I now finally have ponies and I'm so glad I do! Can't wait for the new one to arrive.
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I clearly had a blessed child hood, I never thought it that unusual!!!!!! as other friends did the same....

So I will change my post.....

The most unusual place I took my pony was SCHOOL
 
I remember my friend being picked up on a v snowy day by her mum on her horse with her pony too. Was v jealous indeed.


The car boot was quite funny actually, there was one stall with a cr@ppy saddle on it and people kept rushing over to tell me about it. And then the man who 'used to do jousting' kept asking me if he could have a ride.. never mind the kids. Might go next week and charge fifty pee a go!
 
I rode my old horse to a Blur concert at the MK Bowl! We hung out with the other non -entrance fee payers outside. Chimaera loved the music, got fed grass by drunk fans and was mistaken for a police horse!
 
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Yes me too!
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I keep threatening to bring pony to school (as her field is half way tween home and school, so only a 10 minute walk). Think it'd be fun.
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Daughter firmly objects, and says she'd be too embarrassed. No-one else has ponies kept that close as we're a bit built up round here. Might take some driving lessons and take her up with the cart instead.
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Not my horse, but I borrowed a traveller's horse at Glastonbury festival and rode all round the site, bareback, on a Saturday afternoon. Went along the main drag through all the crowds and chaos, what a fantastic horse, a coloured cob, he never turned a hair. I gave a few of the stoned and bewildered a bit of a fright, riding up behind them! That was before the travellers were banned, a few years ago. Wulfie, going to the Blur concert on your horse, that is VERY cool.

I'm afraid I'm another one went to school by pony and thought it was normal.
 
When I was about 9 my dad ran a cinema and we took my pony and my mum's horse into the cinema and posed as cowboys holding up the ticket seller to advertise a film. Had our picture in the paper. Can't remember what the film was called but it was a western I wasn't allowed to watch!
 
We had our mare in our garden (largish) one winter and used to ride her down to the shops to do the shopping putting it in saddle bags and a backpack, tying her to a tree outside while we went in. (Note never try and carry eggs by horse).
But this wasn't considered that unusual as lots of people in Chile, cant afford a car and still use horses for transport, the only odd fact was that we were forigen (could afford a car) and were doing it.

I used to dream of getting picked up from school by horse or hitching a lift up the hill home with one of the Huasos (Chilean cowboys) who used to ride up our road generally leading 2/3 horses.

Wulfie - glad to hear you managed to find a horse that shares your taste in music...going to a Blur concert, awesome!
 
Hahahaha the yard next to me has a boot sale every saturday so its nothing unusual to my 3 even the yearling! and the first horse show I took my arab 2 year old to had a bouncy castle amongst other scary things and the only thing he spooked at was an umbrella better get some of them out I guess? I used to keep my ponies in a built up area when I was younger and I think they were pretty much bombproof and I cant understand why I cant find other horses like them now.
 
When I was teaching at a school on the Quantocks, one family used to come to school by horse, and in the afternoon, the mum used to ride to school with the ponies on lead-rein, to pick up the children!

I don't think I've ridden to any daft places on mine. The weirdest would be an old, disused railway track in the middle of a quarry (which was safe as it also had a footpath through it).
 
Have to say I used to pick up my son from primary school with his pony (ride and lead) rucsac with his hat and boots and then his school bag went into rucsac.
Only if weather decent though and mostly in winter months as no daylight time to ride otherwise
 
Oh, and I rode my friend's shire mare to my wedding. I thought we were going to stop so I could dismount at the path to the church, but my friend led the horse right to the church door. The mare then lifted her tail and did the BIGGEST dinosaur size poo right on the steps, just after the vicar had a given a warning that he wanted no mess or confetti on the path. Boy, were we popular!! Great wedding though.
 
My sister used to have a free afternoon every week so she'd meet me from school on our mum's part-shire. I'd clamber up behind and we'd ride him home doubles.
 
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When I was teaching at a school on the Quantocks, one family used to come to school by horse, and in the afternoon, the mum used to ride to school with the ponies on lead-rein, to pick up the children!

I don't think I've ridden to any daft places on mine. The weirdest would be an old, disused railway track in the middle of a quarry (which was safe as it also had a footpath through it).

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Many years ago I used to ride to the same school
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