Victoria Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Sadly not with a Modestine of my own. What a great idea Angela. I haven't read the book yet, just skimmed through it but from what I can see Modestine proved very stubborn at times and Stevenson thrashed her soundly - different times! I expect it still goes on but nowadays people wouldn't dare to admit it - much less write about it. Walking with donkeys does sound like fun though, I could just about keep up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Sadly not with a Modestine of my own. What a great idea Angela. I haven't read the book yet, just skimmed through it but from what I can see Modestine proved very stubborn at times and Stevenson thrashed her soundly - different times! I expect it still goes on but nowadays people wouldn't dare to admit it - much less write about it. Walking with donkeys does sound like fun though, I could just about keep up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Sadly not with a Modestine of my own. What a great idea Angela. I haven't read the book yet, just skimmed through it but from what I can see Modestine proved very stubborn at times and Stevenson thrashed her soundly - different times! I expect it still goes on but nowadays people wouldn't dare to admit it - much less write about it. Walking with donkeys does sound like fun though, I could just about keep up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Our small and ancient Renault 5 TL was called Modestine because it was a bit stubborn at times.Modestine went to a scrapyard run by Africans who had a somewhat laisser-faire attitude to paperwork, which was just as well, because for various "paperwork" reasons poor old Modestine never officially belonged to us in the 2 years we had her! No comment from the PC brigade, please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letrangere Posted September 11, 2005 Author Share Posted September 11, 2005 Our small and ancient Renault 5 TL Love those cars, the smaller and more ancient the better. Also rather like the Renault 4 and you still see some around in surprisingly good nick. Glad you mentioned cars for I dreamt last night that a friend in England persuaded me to buy a 2CV for £27,000! It's no secret that I'm looking for one but that wasn't quite the figure I had in mind. Dreamt the other night that I was sitting on a friend's lawn in the Lot & Garonne listening to Dominique de Villepin reading his poems. But I'm going a bit off the thread...Incidentally, SB, I do admire your courage in mentioning the, ahem, other matter. I remember having sleepless nights after accidentally admitting here to a spot of the old travail noir and lived in fear of hate mail for days.M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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