HORSE ON THE LOOSE ...

This is an amazing story, HB. I was in Wales last week and the worst thing we saw was a stray sheep in the road [which my girlfriend, who was driving too fast as usual, very nearly ran over!].

If I'd have seen the stray horse and realised that nobody wanted it I would have taken it home for my daughter who loves horseriding.

hi , tino !
a horse might come in handy if the "petrol" price keeps increasing .
during the depression in the 1930's "bennett buggies" - named after canadian primeminister bennett - were a popular means of transportation in canada .
bennett himself was a millionaire and his slogan was : "prosperity is just around the corner " - sounds familiar
hbg(not a millionaire )

Great picture HB.

Can't imagine we'll ever see the like of that again, a mix n match of horse and car, but you never know!

casino joe wrote :
"Can't imagine we'll ever see the like of that again, a mix n match of horse and car, but you never know! "

in the twenties - weren't they the 'roaring twenties' ? - not many people expected to see a depression ...
hbg

I hear what you are saying [well, not literally, I actually read what you are saying if I'm going to be literal] but I read a book about priveledge and class recently and it was astonishing what people put up with despite a depression, nobody thought of turning the Sackville-West's out of Knowle their stately home, for example.

Think it would be a tad different now, the Scallies I know would soon be in there and off to the scrapyard with the silverware, if such homes were anything less than tourist attractions now, and probably still would...

I can't speak for Canada but in the Uk at that time [from memory so figures are not to be quoted back at me] something like 5% of the population owned something like 93% of the land, and people just accepted that...

hi , joe :
i don't think canada was much different at that time .
of course , i'm not speaking from experience since we only came to canada in 1956 .
just reading a book again that i've had for some years .
the book is : "england speaks" by phillip gibbs , written and published in 1934 .
the factories were shuttered , dockyards closed , yet the 'landed' lived like they had before , and weren't concerned about the unemployed .
sure hope that will never happen again .
hbg

Today's photo is poignant..

"poignant" = pungent , slinging , keen , penetrating ,
moving , vivid (OED)
hbg

I don't understand...

When I clicked on "photo" all that appeared was an advert for "Bonusprint"..?

Hbg, I meant I found the horse photo touching, or moving..

so did i ; i think that poor horse is really panting . i think horses get easily distressed in unfamiliar surroundings - read somwhere that their eyesight is not very good ?
just checked wiki ; horses wear blinkers to reduce their very wide view - caused because their eyes sit on the sides of the head .
hbg

UPDATE.

Naked lady seen hitching a ride back to Coventry.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/1507606.stm

...booked flight to coventry !
hbg