Can't belive it......

[yelenots]

Sat here having a nice cup of tea and the Rag & Bone man is driving down our road shouting out of the window!! Not seen anything like it since I was a little girl!
My teenage son thinks its mad!!

[boxtops]

Crumbs! - is he giving out balloons if you give him something?!

[mike11111]

haven't seen one for years! Used to have a horse and cart then.

[sara3]

we've had them around here.. not sure how it works. surely they won't take any old crap for nothing?

and then dump it in a beautiful field :o/

[ttfn]

I wonder when he last collected any 'bone' yele?

[cazzz1975]

we have loads of them around, they use a tape recording of themselves shouting

[mike11111]

My mother told me that when I was two she had to give away her best cardigan to the ragman because I was screaming for a goldfish. That goldfish lasted 11 years.

[sara3]

well that's just bloody cheating!

[cazzz1975]

sometimes you can tell the batteries are going on the tape recording, very amusing :)

[dotty.]

they call their business 'House Clearance' in the yellow pages now lol

[hc4361]

Ours blows a trumpet.

[stewey]

Remember the guys who used to come around on bicycles sharpening knives and scissors?

[boxtops]

..and the French onion sellers on bicycles?

Careful, this could turn into a subsection of Bobbi's Remember When...!

[ttfn]

I remember him, boxy - he had lovely bulbs too

[wheaten]

We still have a rag 'n' bone man with a horse, shouting 'Any old rags and bones', but husband wouldn't get on the cart!

[Mick-Talbot]

They are called Zigeuners, round here.

[ttfn]

wheaten - you are dressing him too nicely☺ Roll on Nov 5th
Mick, I bet you have to be careful what you call things in your parts!

[mike11111]

Man at door; "Good afternoon, I'm collecting for Dr Barnado's"
Harassed mother: "You can take these two little buggers for a start!"

[stewey]

Every Sunday, a man on a bike would come around selling oatcakes with which to soak up your breakfast yolk.