Fun Monday# 25

Tiggerlane is the host this week this is her wish:

"I wanna see your CAR! It can be your current car, the first car you ever had, maybe your first new car with that new-car smell, a car you wrecked once, or even the dream car you would drive - given all the money in the world! Oh - and if you have a truck, SUV, lawnmower, whatever the local authorities allow you to drive, let's see it!"

This is the closest I could find to a picture of my very first car which was a white Renault 4. I bought it back in 1972 from a policeman who was selling it for his son. It was just at the time I was taking my test for the second time. I had first tried and failed ten years earlier (as an 18yr old -long story don't ask actually but it would make a good post -how I landed in a ditch while practicing with my father!). Back to the car- you would think you could trust a policeman, but no when I came to have it serviced after a few months it needed so much doing to it I sold it. If you're wonderig Yes- I did pass my test the second time and I remember the thrill of going for my first drive. Also this meant no more buses with a pushchair or trying to carry a weeks shopping uphill to our house with two children in tow.

I can never stick to the rules so I just had to show you a picture of Embee's Jenson Healey. This was a really great car and he only bought it because I had always wanted a sports car. It was a lovely car but not suitable for a family, however we did go to Cornwall on our first ever holiday (I won't mention the fact that we almost got to the motorway and had to go back for embee's toilet bag). Embee had booked a caravan at Harlyn Bay - I was not keen as I like my comforts but it was a last minute decision during the hot summer of 1976. I know that Sam has mentioned this caravan before but I just wanted to show you how hideous it was. We were driving around the caravan site trying to find out which one was ours and I said ' hope it's not that awful purple one. You've guessed- it was. I can't tell you how relieved I was that we spent so little time in it. That was my first and last caravan holiday and after this I always booked the holidays. We went back to the same area in Cornwall for many years but always rented a flat or house after this.


My visitors are here (plane was late arriving) so I must go and make lunch!! I will get round to visiting everyone but it may take me a little longer than usual.