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Old Toy Horse Left in Trash Becomes Local Celebrity, With Villagers Moving it Daily From Home to...
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<blockquote data-quote="Michie" data-source="post: 75240656" data-attributes="member: 628"><p><strong>...Home </strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>An old stuffed toy horse left out on the pavement for trash pick-up went on to a life of celebrity, after residents of a small village in Norfolk, England adopted him as their face-mask-wearing mascot.</p><p></p><p>It all started about a week ago when a gentleman in Hethersett who had recently lost his wife, was cleaning out his house and the horse was one of the things he was throwing away.</p><p></p><p>It is believed that some children picked him up and played with him, leaving him on a grassy knoll—the rest of the story is filled with the kind of whimsy we all need in this time of restricted community.</p><p></p><p>At first, a lady posted on a local Facebook page asking if anybody had lost him, and obviously a lot of comments with horse-y puns ensued.</p><p></p><p>“The next thing we knew, he got put outside someone’s door, and she took him in and named him Derek Trotter,” said resident Kim Rout—a reference to the character from an 80s TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses.</p><p></p><p>Derek has since trotted from home to home, with villagers keeping track of his whereabouts on a Facebook group that Kim set up called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/573267820221640/" target="_blank">Derek Trotter the Globetrotting Pony</a>.</p><p></p><p>Continued below.</p><p><a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/toy-horse-named-derek-trotter-is-passed-around-village/" target="_blank">Old Toy Horse Left in Trash Becomes Local Celebrity, With Villagers Moving it Daily From Home to Home</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michie, post: 75240656, member: 628"] [B]...Home [/B] An old stuffed toy horse left out on the pavement for trash pick-up went on to a life of celebrity, after residents of a small village in Norfolk, England adopted him as their face-mask-wearing mascot. It all started about a week ago when a gentleman in Hethersett who had recently lost his wife, was cleaning out his house and the horse was one of the things he was throwing away. It is believed that some children picked him up and played with him, leaving him on a grassy knoll—the rest of the story is filled with the kind of whimsy we all need in this time of restricted community. At first, a lady posted on a local Facebook page asking if anybody had lost him, and obviously a lot of comments with horse-y puns ensued. “The next thing we knew, he got put outside someone’s door, and she took him in and named him Derek Trotter,” said resident Kim Rout—a reference to the character from an 80s TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses. Derek has since trotted from home to home, with villagers keeping track of his whereabouts on a Facebook group that Kim set up called [URL='https://www.facebook.com/groups/573267820221640/']Derek Trotter the Globetrotting Pony[/URL]. Continued below. [URL="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/toy-horse-named-derek-trotter-is-passed-around-village/"]Old Toy Horse Left in Trash Becomes Local Celebrity, With Villagers Moving it Daily From Home to Home[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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