Car spotted near the CatCall of the Day . A Morris Minor according to the badge on the side , and with Morris 1000 on the back , though the one we had as a family forty odd years ago was a Morris 1000 but we called it a Morris Traveller . Ours was green but apart from that it looked fairly indentical to this one , though by the end of its life it certainly sported a lot more rust .
Today it looked very very tiny for five people and a dog and L and I wondered how we had all fitted in . ... suffering from car sickness I often used to sit in the luggage compartment ( the "boot" ) , with my knees hunched up , or even lying down completely to try to sleep .
Even now I still get car sick occasionally now as a passenger , more so when sitting in the back , which makes me think my place in the car was possibly the worst . But at the time as I remember we would squabble over the spot , as on a longer journey it was delightfully close to the ubiquitous picnic and definitely did afford more leg room and more of a space to spread out .
It gives me the creeps now thinking about it , after the two children from Heaton were killed in the back row of what I assume was their people carrier when a truck ran into the back of the car as they parked to clear the windows near Christmas some years ago .
