No.(40)

A couple of weeks ago, I decided I would award myself a partial by on No.39, it being over two years since I snagged the No.38 noticed at reference 1. So I could move onto No.40, but would mark any notices with round brackets. Then, in the event of snagging a No.39 at some point in the future, I would go back to No.40 and do the job properly.

No.40 duly turned up yesterday, according to Car Check an Audi A1 TDI S LINE from 2011, so quite an old car. Car Check also says blue which is not what I would call it, slight misting of the camera lens notwithstanding.

Except that there is what appears to be a Vauxhall rather than an Audi plaque and Google Images says 'The item shown is a silver hatchback, specifically a Vauxhall Corsa, likely from the 2011-2014 period based on its design', which seems more likely, so perhaps it is a collectors registration which was moved off the dead Audi, with Car Check having failed to keep up.

I have spotted two 44s since, so maybe the by is going to get me on the move again.

Then a bit further along we had an interesting car with a trailer, with discrete stickers advertising a car breakers and the slightly larger sticker, visible right above, advertising a show for modified cars. To be found at reference 2.

Car Check says the front vehicle - with N182 PUW at the back modified to N82W at the front - which I would have thought was some kind of offence - was a 1992 Golf GTI.

Google Images says 'Volkswagen Golf Mk3, a compact family car third generation manufactured between 1991 and 1998', adding that there was a GTI model. So far, so good.

Modified exhausts. Maybe to stop staining and worse to the paintwork of the trailer - which appeared to be the back half of another Golf. One might think that such a conversion job would be quite expensive - unless, of course, one was the car breaker and could do most if not all of the necessary work oneself.

The trailer was full of stuff, but I suppose you could sleep a child or a small adult in it. I associate to the Romahome at the end of reference 3.

PS 1: there is also the matter of Ingold and his lines,reference 4, previously noticed. My registration plates have moved from being a line to being a tree, with every 'by' marking the start of a new branch. You can get the same problem with king lists, if the kingdom in question splits into two or more pieces or if it is absorbed into another kingdom.

PS 2: nearer home, the candytuft, previously noticed, is forging ahead. According to the rather short entry at reference 5, brigaded with the cabbages and named for somewhere in Crete. Nothing to do with candy in the north American sense.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/01/no38.html.

Reference 2: https://edition.show/.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/08/botanics.html.

Reference 4: Lines: A Brief History – Ingold, T – 2007. 

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberis.

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