Well, it has happened at last. The Prelude is being retired after 8 years of trekking all round Europe and we have bought a 2.5-year-old automatic diesel Accord from the local Honda dealer. I'm not at all sure about this, being a diesel hater, but it seems to go ok and this is France, so if I don't get on with it, it will sell on.
Anyway, today - feeling sad - I emptied the contents of the Prelude's boot and glove boxes before deciding whether to sell it, give it to my son or put it in the garden as the French do because I am so fond of the old thing.
This is what was in it:
Two shopping bags, one hessian from Bahrain airport, one plastic from the Belle Illoise lemon soap shop, Menton; a boot-liner/carrying bag; Lidl windcheater; toolkit; genuine Honda Accident Assistance pack complete with camera and film; secateurs; bottle of still mineral water; Zeiss 8x30 binoculars I bought years ago so I could see both ends of the pitch at once from the public bar at ‘cowshot corner’, the County Ground, Taunton; electrician’s screwdriver/circuit tester; Honda document folder with all handbooks, full service history, etc; large umbrella; small umbrella; warning triangle; replacement bulb and fuse kit; 2x bungee straps; spare prescription spectacles for me; 3-way 12v adaptor; my Fedora; J’s tweed trilby; Readers’ Digest France Book of the Road/large scale maps; Blue Guide to France; Book with history of names of towns and villages in Haute-Vienne; Lidl fizzy water; stringback gloves; parking zone time card for all France; my prescription sunglasses; tape measure; 2 sweeties nicked from hotels; toothpicks; sticky velcro pads; felt pen; bite/sting ointment; J’s prescription driving glasses; 2x ordinary sunglasses; cotton buds; paracetemol tablets; sticking plasters; biro; 3m tape measure; wallet; ipod charger; Samsung phone charger; seatbelt tensioner clip (kept from Volvo 940 ten years ago); 2x pens; folding shopping bag; Maps: Michelin France, Limousin, Haute-Vienne, local Oradour-sur-Glane, Limoges streets, Charente chateaux, Auvergne/Languedoc, Midi/Aquitaine; official breath tester; tissues; French/English dictionary; hand cream; lip salve; stereo instructions; 2x pens; sellotape; Hotel guides: Ibis, Kyriad, Citotel, Etap, Inter, Accor Europe, Contact, Logis de France and Marmotte.
And nobody could ever describe our car as untidy-there was no litter whatsoever.
I wonder if anyone can beat that lot?
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