Trivia Investigation Team

[CitroJim]

Ohh, that is an absolutely lovely rhyme And those pictures! They have it all

Brings back great memories of my own childhood caravan holidays...

[MattBLancs]

If Matt follows the Citrojim vehicle-naming pathway, all those cars will be fruit & flowers before very long.

Neil

I wondered about something based on the colours - or rather the colour names,
(Evergreen, Aegean, Hyperion, Flamenco, Magnetic.
Does that distill down to :
Evy, Agy, Hypy / hippy?, Flamy and Maggie?
Don't know what the grey or the black official names are! Drabby and Dully!)

I'd ruled out off the reg numbers

Spoiler: show

V654FSU,
W46BJO,
KY02HHS,
YK54LML,
DG16UNV

as too obscure, but given the surprisingly complex back story to "Otterchops" , I realise I'm just an amateur at this sort of thing!

[CitroJim]

sounds a bit like the seven dwarfs Matt!

[MattBLancs]

Sounds a lot like "toooooo many cars!!"

[CitroJim]

Sounds a lot like "toooooo many cars!!"

My current issue too Matt I'm really hoping I can sweet-talk Sian into parting with Pix... She hardly uses it. Twice this year, including Christmas...

[mickthemaverick]

Would you be happy for her to borrow Polly as and when she needs a car Jim? That may be your way of convincing her!!

[CitroJim]

Would you be happy for her to borrow Polly as and when she needs a car Jim? That may be your way of convincing her!!

Yes, I am... If she is

[NewcastleFalcon]

The Falcon original originals photographed today, still providing pleasure to the younger generation. Horace the Hovercraft makes it into the updated version, still nice pictures but not the works of art of the original original.

Neil

[CitroJim]

I really must try to get some some of those books for Autumn I absolutely love them and I know she will too...

So, have they been updated to include Eric the EV?

[Armidillo]

Or perhaps "Elvis the EV".

A moment's reflection will confirm that the name Eric is already taken by the Python crowd for a disabled insect - "Eric the Half a Bee" (Hoh hoh hoh, tee hee hee).

[CitroJim]

^^^

[NewcastleFalcon]

I really must try to get some some of those books for Autumn I absolutely love them and I know she will too...

So, have they been updated to include Eric the EV?

That's when Grandads get creative, you reach the last page of the book then you start making them up yourself
Little rhymes not beyond creation, or sub-contracting, and even pictures too, really quite easy to turn a photo into a colour drawing/ colour cartoon with any sort of image editor again not beyond creation or sub-contracting. Print them out fold them up inside the book and you have nice little bespoke annex to add to the delight!

I'm Strawberry the small car,....
I'm Bluebell the blue car....
I'm Polly the people carrier....

Very roughly...something like this

Tootles the Taxi homage!

Neil

[CitroJim]

That's awesome Neil Love it!

[MattBLancs]

Oh, no that's not one I've heard of.

Amazon offers two varieties, are these the same (second a later "reboot" perhaps?)


Will try and grab a copy as sounds just up their street!! (And mine)

Tootles book (the bottom , refreshed version) = bought on Amazon this morning, £3.30 including delivery. Incidentally the top, original version, listed about is up for £58!
(Or about £8 on eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145926892355 - ah, now sold, perhaps to be "flipped" on Amazon at an inflated price!? )

[mickthemaverick]

Jim/Matt FYI

This seems like a decent bargain price of a bundle including Tootles!!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285979826018 ... R-z25OCmZA