Saturday, April 26, 2008

A camper van by any other name...

Howard.
We thought long and hard.
It took about 2 weeks before a name that suited our plain camper van came to us.
The name was inspired by the over-population of miniature horses in Victoria…well, over-population according to Rob. I guess Victorians like their mini-ponies.
They were everywhere – in people’s front lawns and pastures, whole fields of them or mixed in with other animals. The amount of miniature horses roaming the state brought on a heated debate over the use of said miniature horses in a place experiencing extreme drought. Anyways….it also reminded me of the miniature goat that was at my summer camp years ago…the poor thing was always bloated as it still had real goat size organs in a mini goat body…his name was Howard.
The moment “Howard” came out of my mouth, Kath and Rob looked at each other.
Howard it was.

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