Mind Your Step

Why don't horse riders get fined for their horses crapping on the road? But dog owners get fined for doing the same! It's just not fair. Horse poo must be x10 the size of dog poo and if you stand in it...well you are well and truly in the shit. plus if we walked our dog along the road we would get arrested, fined etc... but horses can go where they want, shit where they want,

BUT!!! Bring Back the Rag n Bone man, I miss seeing a dirty tramp on a horse n cart coming up the street. Let's give all tramps free horse n carts!

For those who don't know the Rag and bone man is a british phrase for a junk dealer. Historically the phrase referred to an individual who would travel the streets of a city with a horse drawn cart, and would collect old rags (for converting into fabric and paper), bones for making glue, scrap iron and other items, often trading them for other items of limited value.

They would use a distinctive call to alert householders to their presence, and/or ring a hand bell. They would call out "rag-and-bone", delivered in a sing-song fashion. Long usage tended to simplify the words, for instance down to "any raa-boh".