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Hobbyhorsing: what girls everywhere can learn from the Finnish craze

12:07 AM

Riding an imaginary horse is a galloping success with young girls in the Scandinavian country – and the trend is taking off elsewhere

Perhaps one of the more surprising articles to be widely circulated this month has been a New York Times feature on the girls of Finland and their fondness for hobbyhorsing.

Hobbyhorsing is not a metaphor, nor indeed the repurposing of some veterinarian-standard tranquiliser by the nightclubbing youth of today. It is, in fact, the act and art of riding a rudimentary toy horse – a toy that is, to put it bluntly, a stuffed fabric horse’s head attached to a stick.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2ZMxt5k

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