Van

Someone who is wild about road vehicles is sometimes known as a "petrolhead". Well, that's not me. I have very limited interest in cars or indeed any other motor vehicles. To me they are just functional machines that serve particular purposes such as transporting people safely from A to B.

However, for a few years I have noticed a decrepit VW van often parked round the corner from us and it makes me smile whenever I see it. The prefix "A" on the registration plate tells me that it has been around for forty years. In the intervening time it looks like it has never been washed, polished or repaired.

It may look like a wreck but its longevity probably means that it is an excellent advertisement for the Volkswagen company. Lord know how many miles it has done or where it has been. If it has covered a fairly normal 10,000 miles a year, that means it must have done about 400,000 miles!

And why has it got a sticker in a side window announcing, "I Love Sewage"? That's a very odd thing to love!

I will be a little sad if that very familiar van drives away and never comes back. It has such character!

P.S. I have "scheduled" the publication of  this blogpost as we are now far away in Filey by the sea. Back on Thursday.

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