Is it a campervan, motorhome, mobilehome, living machine, wheelyhouse, or what?
Will we just call it the 'Van'!
What do you think?
John has made it clear that no engine-driven machine should ever have a pet name.
The idea is the very opposite of amusing.
And there we are - or will be - in a vehicle named after Laika the Space Dog with the Registration K9. This is Sirius - I mean serious!
Poor Laika! Sent off into space in a tin box with no possibility of returning ever and only enough food for six months . . .
What are two pensioners doing setting off into the sunset for a whole year in a tin box with only a bag of rice and several boxes of chopped tomatoes? Or is our tin car in fact a tin Canis Major?
Relax - our orbit will bring us back to base in about 6 months - starving no doubt..
If anyone wants to give us a nodding dog in a goldfish bowl as a dashboard mascot - please don't - but thanks for the thought!
Laika a mongrel bitch, was sent into orbit in Sputnik 2 on 03.11.1957. Laika means 'Barker'.She was also called Kudryavka - little Curly and dubbed Muttnik. See www.spacetoday.org
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008
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