Vintage Rovers

[bunn]

In Tavistock yesterday, we parked near an array of elderly cars.  Not, on the whole, ancient cars - cars about my age, or perhaps 10 years older.

I was delighted to see that one of the two elderly Rovers had a number of Werther's Original sweets on the dashboard.  If I were writing fiction and included one of those Rovers, I'm not sure I would have the nerve to include Werther's Original, it would seem just too much.  I immediately rushed over to the other Rover to check it for Werthers.  Sadly there were none - but even better, there was a tin of pipe tobacco, and a wooden pipe!  

Sometimes it's nice to have your expectations confirmed. 

Comments

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Don't you think that it was all a little bit too perfect, and is probably the front for a gang of diamond smugglers who've made a base of operations in a disused tin mine?

Our visiting German folk dancers brought us some bags of Werther's Originals, telling us they were made just a few dozen miles from their home. This surprised me, since I have such a strong association of old-fashioned Englishness with them, that I'd never realised they were actually German.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Werther's Originalenreichstoffeee!

Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Toffee!

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Made by Storck, I believe, a German company that owns Bendick's of Mayfair (erstwhile client of mine).

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

If there were tartan travelling rugs present as well, then it was almost certainly smugglers..