Baby Car.

[curiouswombat]

So - Daughter-dear and I have our own car. Not a car owned by my employers, or owned by S2C, but owned by me. And she's allowed to drive it. On her own once she passes her test! She did her theory test on Saturday and passed that, so she's heading towards her R plates now.

So - our car - is a white Citroen C3, 3 years old, done 17,300 miles, and is very cute -




It is not quite as tiny as I had actually considered getting – I had thought of a Micra, or even a VW Lupo – but I called into one of the local second hand car dealers, saw this, and fell in love. It is just so cute and cuddly looking - see










The maroon car in the second pic is S2Cs Octavia. The C3 is a good bit shorter, for sure - it is only about 9 foot from bumper to bumper – 3m max.

D-d and I felt that as it is so cute, it ought to have a name – she thought female. She suggested Frances, as it is French, but I wasn’t sure. I thought something that went with Citroen – maybe Cissy – she said a loud ‘No!’

I said it was a pity that the car’s designation is just a letter and a number, C3 doesn’t lend itself to turning into a name….except C3PO of course. ‘That would be C3 Po!’ D-d laughed. ‘PO!’ I said. ‘The car is called Po! – it looks as if it belongs in Telly-tubby land! It is a Telly-tubby car, and it is called Po!’

And so it is!

We went out in Po today for D-d to try driving it, and on the whole she managed well – her actual driving is now fine, but she still has problems getting from totally stationary to moving forwards – she tends to stall. Fortunately Po is very forgiving and when she stalled him/her/it five of six times trying to get out of the lane beside the house, where the pictures were taken, there was no sign at all of the car being put out by this behaviour.

I had wanted D-d to stand beside Po to help you with scale if you are a non-European, but she didn’t want her picture taken, and couldn’t even be bothered to take mine – she was tired when we got home. However as I said, Po is not quite 9’ long, and stands about 5’ high. Isn’t it just one of the cutest cars you have ever seen?

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Giles owned a DS19 - a very much older one! (1955 - 65). It was about the same relation to Po as a Ford Edsel and a Ford Fiesta.

But it was indeed a Citroen.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I always wondered -- don't make fun of me for saying this -- if Giles had to pay his own freight to have that car shipped to California, or if taking care of transportation was one of the Council's fringe benefits. In either way, then, was the car something Giles really wanted, or all he could get? Somebody should write a flashback story about that ...