I actually drove a DB5 once. Unfortunately I don’t have a driver’s licence, so the outing was limited to a stretch of private property. We did take if for a good spin on real roads afterwards.

The experience? Breathtaking. I wouldn’t have trusted to drive it to Monte Carlo without a good AA insurance, but the leather, the dashboard - it even had an old 8-track with Beatles cassettes.

In short, that was fun.

*is green with envy*

I think the closest I’m ever going to get to an Aston or an E-type is if/when my brother gets one. He’s been threatening to for many a year now. Problem is, if he got one, there’s NO WAY he’d let me drive it!

Thinking about it, the Crazy Canalman drives a Jag… But it’s a boring executive model one and doesn’t even have leather seats. What a let down Then again, he’s been waiting for decades to be in the position to have one, so I shouldn’t really begrudge it him.

Here’s a question for you - does Cas want to get her grubby mits on one of the above cars because they are beautiful, iconic, and a dream to drive? Or because when she was at school she was forced to be picked up in tatty Citroen’s when all around her the car park was filled with more Mercedes’ than you could shake a stick at?

Ooh, the scars of being the local scholarship girl at Hogwarts (most of my peers would have been right at home in Slytherin House)

Glad I could make your day [grin].

I suppose I’m too new a kid on the Bright Meadow block to reasonably distinguish between the catalogue of Lurid Latvians, Poncy Poles and Crazy Canalmen (I imagine some Oxford punter?), so I can’t advise you on that.

As for the cars, I’d like to think it’s because of your inherent sense of style, not out of lowly envy. Now, if you’d been brought to school in a Mini Metro, that would have been cause for trauma. Citroëns are cool. Bond drove a 2CV in For Your Eyes Only! So there.

There is a handy Who’s Who written for just these instances, Nils
(The Crazy Canalman is my father and is so called because he lives on a narrowboat and is more than a little… odd. No need to wonder where I get it from any more!)

And I was taken to school in a Mini Metro for years. Thank you for reminding me…

I am now in love with Eva Green

I am now in love with Eva Green

Quite understandable. I’m more than a little smitten myself.

But Daniel Craig… He will always be my one true love.

poor Sawyer, no longer your favourite

Sawyer is just a smidgeon too mean to be favourite. Wouldn’t push him out of bed in the morning though
And what about Johnny and Hugh? Can’t be forgetting them. There is room in my heart for more than one true love.

you think there can be more than one ‘one’? no wonder you need to go back to college to do English!

I’m sick. It’s allowed.

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