why do horse owners think they own the road ?

tandraig

I do not object to anyone relocating from the city to the country - not at all and i apologise if i gave that impression!
what i do object to are people relocating to the country and then find it isnt all pretty cottages, village greens and cricket. and complaining loudly about matters which are NORMAL in the country - like horse droppings on the road, cockerels waking them up, the smell of the pig farm down the road, that the school is fifteen miles away, that sometimes cows have to cross roads to be milked holding up traffic for all of five minutes a couple of times a day, that there are actually people walking along lanes with no pavements, that the locals are nosy (not really - they just want to be sure you arent a criminal type or hiding out from the !!!!!).
do i live in the country - well, I can see two farms from my bedroom window, one industrial estate and the nearest (small) town is a ten minute bus ride away.

tandraig

lmao - I just checked my last post and didnt believe i used a banned (by mse) word!!!! should I have said 'an italian or corsican organisation associated with violent crime - begins with M and ends with A!!!
has martin got a list of banned words please - cos i am always a bit confuddled about what i can and cant say!!!

raebhoop

tandraig wrote: »

lmao - I just checked my last post and didnt believe i used a banned (by mse) word!!!! should I have said 'an italian or corsican organisation associated with violent crime - begins with M and ends with A!!!
has martin got a list of banned words please - cos i am always a bit confuddled about what i can and cant say!!!

Don't abbreviate cockerel or mention a female dog either:D

*Vikki*

Mr_Lahey wrote: »

I've never thought of that! Ill give my children's school a call and ask if they would mind opening slightly earlier to account for horse riders.

Thanks.

They can't hold you up for that long and horses and riders are normally never on the roads in the morning when school rush hour. If they are on the roads when you are going to pick the kids up then you can wait in the car can't you?

God everyone is in such a rush these days to get anywhere!

fayei

Oggyoi wrote: »

Nothing more annoying than being stuck behind 2 muppets on horses, ambling along side by side chatting away....

This is road safety, so the muppets in the car behind us dont cause an accident!!!!

tandraig

seems to me as if car drivers think roads were invented for them!
lets see - first roads were used by people and of course horses
chariots - drawn by horses
wagons - drawn by horses
drays - drawn by horses
hansom cabs - drawn by horses
for, oh about couple of thousand years
motor cars - hundred years?
and now people get in their tin cans - assured by all the adverts the road is theirs (and their car really should be the only one on it) and think cos they are in a tin can - their journey is paramount. and if their tin can costs more than others - they have right of way!
I for one find it ludicrous!
never did understand why men compare such things as ccs or horsepower! or whether its got over or under carbs?

*Vikki*

Mr_Lahey wrote: »

I've never thought of that! Ill give my children's school a call and ask if they would mind opening slightly earlier to account for horse riders.

Thanks.

Just a small tip, perhaps in the time you have spare waiting around to pick up your kids you could check your tyres?:p

Mr_Lahey

*Vikki* wrote: »

They can't hold you up for that long and horses and riders are normally never on the roads in the morning when school rush hour. If they are on the roads when you are going to pick the kids up then you can wait in the car can't you?

God everyone is in such a rush these days to get anywhere!

You're right i just made it up, in fact those three horse riding side by side this very morning must have been an illusion.

Thanks for the advice about picking my kids up, but i'd rather actually go and collect my 5 year old, but thank you.

Or - and here is a great idea why don't i just pack my job in, that way i can spend all day waiting for Horse Riders

Rosie75

I have no problem at all with horses. Quite often on my way to work I'll see more horse riders than car riders. Yes, it !!!!es me off that I have to go to work when, apparently, most people who live near me have no need to earn a living and can prance around on their horses all day. But I don't see how being slowed down for 20-30 seconds is that much of an inconvenience. Admittedly it's a bit longer than that when a farmer is herding sheep across the road, but what the heck? I like eating lamb. What really annoys me, though, is the local hunt. Now they clearly do think they own the road (and not just the road, but all the land around it, including land that farmers have specifically told them not to venture on). Some hunt-supporter guy in a quad bike recently held up his hand in an authoritarian gesture when I was driving into my village, presumably wanting me to stop and wait (though I've no idea why, since there was no sign of any horses or dogs) - I told him to get out of the effing way as, unlike him, I actually lived there. I heard later that one of my neighbours heard a commotion in his (acutally quite well-secured) back garden and went outside to see various members of the hunt and their horses there, watching the hounds kill a deer.

biscit

tandraig wrote: »

lmao - I just checked my last post and didnt believe i used a banned (by mse) word!!!! should I have said 'an italian or corsican organisation associated with violent crime - begins with M and ends with A!!!
has martin got a list of banned words please - cos i am always a bit confuddled about what i can and cant say!!!

I'm sure they haven't banned the word Camorra. Like the !!!!! only from elsewhere in Italy. You could use that instead.