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Yesterday's weather: a little bit of this, a little bit of that....
It's a Citröen Méhari (pronounced mey-ri). 1978, so the wine goes to A. Nonnie Mouse of Sutton, her who wants the granny seat in the back. So, Nonnie, just book your travel and we'll look after the bottle for you in the meantime.
Although it's described as an off-roader, I don't think we'll be taking it up onto the Causse (limestone hills) around here. It's such an elderly lady (sorry twins, nothing personal, I'm talking car years now not human years) that we will be treating her with the respect she deserves. We were shown a few at the specialist garage we visited, we had our eyes on a particular blue and white model which we thought from the internet might have been a very rare 'Azure' - only 700 were ever made - but it turned out that the garage will customiseMéharis for you, so we opted for the beige one.
Now that brings up the question of beige, doesn't it? We don't want to be labelled as 'beige' so we are thinking of wearing as many bright colours as we can. We have been trying to think of ways to brighten up MillyMéhari (or was it Molly Méhari? Matilda? Maggie? I forget now). Should we buy her some brightly coloured seat covers? Paint pink go-faster stripes along her flanks? We could decorate her in the style of Roxanne the van, who used to belong to friends of ours. Roxanne had flowers and snails, as I recall, in psychadellic colours all over her body. She was a very old French van, the type that French farmers are leaving at the back of their barns for the chickens to roost in.
Well, watch this space. I suspect that she will stay boring beige, not to be confused with her owners.
On the subject of beige, I googled the colour to see what came up and I found the funniest web site I've seen for ages. Do take a look if you aren't easily offended - click here.
Right, we're off to collect Jon's new toy. As she only has a 602 cc engine, we could be gone some time.
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Love the "beige" site, but I'm a bit worried about the reference to beige people "preying" in church. Didn't realise they were predators. :-) :-)
I'll treat them with more respect in future.
Well, who's a clever clogs then??
I really thought someone else would have got it right, or perhaps I was the only entrant?!
I shall hot-foot it to a web-site selling cheap air fares asap!
Read the 'beige' page. The thing is, I know, and every other person of a certain age knows, the writers, contributors and general old person-haters will all, one day, be OLD, in fact some will be VERY OLD, because medical science is keeping us all alive for much longer. I think the Aussies have the right attitude though, they all seem to be ski-ers to a man and woman! (Spending the Kids Inheritance)!!
Good on yer, Oz. The thing is, Susie Kelly, however long they live, their spelling probably won't improve. Let all us oldies prey!! Here endeth the lesson from Sutton!! (Just let me do a spell-check first)!!!
Telford
It looks like you have the "classic car" bug (if that's what it can be called), if you already know how many Azure models were made. It will only be a matter of time before you know the total production run for "Beige Mahari" and the serial numbers to match.
Amanda and Steve
AND the local garage has a Citroen DS for sale at the mo.
Always wanted one of those, but I think TOH's Mehari got in first....
I feel a "Dear MTV Pimp My Ride" coming on
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