Skip to main content

A very respectable substitute!

If I can't have a shepherd's hut, then I'd like one of these please!
When our three children were small, and in the case of the youngest, I mean really small - Moses basket sized, we used to rock around in a 2CV.  The basket would be wedged in on the floor, behind the front seats!  Can you imagine that nowadays, with Health and Safety issues at every turn.  We started off with a pale sea green coloured one, then a red and grey Dolly, and lastly a very sophisticated maroon and black Charleston.  Brilliant little cars.  The best bit, apart from being able to roll the roof back like a sardine can, to let the sun and fresh air in, was removing the whole back seat of the car, complete with children's car seats.  We could have very civilised picnics this way.  Each small child was strapped into their seat, while we fed them their lunch, and then they could be released to run wild until it was time to go home.  Ah, the simple life!  No sat nav, no mobiles, no in-car entertainment, just fun motoring and a road map.  Perfect.

Comments

  1. Sally8 August 2016 at 10:22

    I remember the 2CV's - they were very well known around town! As was the long Citroen model J drove!
    Love the photo of the vehicle above! Looks like fun! x

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. the running wave8 August 2016 at 17:24

      Ah, the Citroen Safari - I LOVED that car! All the children, all their friends, bikes, endless stuff, piled in the back and always room for more.
      x

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

In a vase on Monday - colour

The intense colours in my vase this week come from nasturtiums, sweetpeas and a single glorious zinnia! Their beauty and love of life speak for themselves and need no further words from me! Enjoy!
8 comments
Read more

Coastal walk from Gullane to North Berwick

By the time I have walked about four miles, my toes are screaming at me - it's the arthritis, you see.  One of the joys of being that little bit older than I was.  However, for a long time, I have been keen to walk along the beaches, and follow the coastal path, between Gullane and North Berwick. So, having worked out the tide times, I decided today was the day, and off we went. Below is our starting point, the bay at Gullane.  It's a lovely beach, very popular with dog walkers. This is looking east, the direction Tilly and I were going to take. Looking back, up the Forth, the unmistakable bulk of Arthur's Seat, and Edinburgh's skyline, just clear enough to see. For most of the walk, there is the choice between wandering along a series of beaches, or following a path along the top of each. There's no denying it, at heart I am a shell-seeker.  I have loads of shells at home.  We lived on one of the out islands in the Bahamas for a just over a year, a lo
7 comments
Read more

Possibly the last post and a sizzlingly hot vase on Monday

The border in our tiny garden is in an in-between phase at the moment and not very colourful, but elsewhere there are pops of high summer colour and I have brought them together in my vase today. The running wave uses Blogger as it's vehicle and they are changing the way a post is created but unfortunately I cannot make the new format work. I can't progress beyond the title! I cannot navigate to the main body of the post to create text. The new template has no prompts for adding photos, weblinks, to format the text, change font etc. It may be my old MacBook that's as fault but I can't do anything about that!! Are any other IAVOM bloggers who use Blogger having the same problems? I have tried, three times, to contact Blogger through their 'Help' prompt and received no feedback or contact whatsoever. This post is using the old 'Legacy' format, which no longer permits any kind of formatting of text, and so after four attempts I have finally manage
15 comments
Read more