Disco ...

Aficionados of Land Rovers will know the nickname for the Discovery ... it's a new word in my vocabulary and one to be avoided ... along with any similar kind of gas guzzling monster ...

However, on this assignment, a battered Land Rover comes with the house and cat and may be useful for researching under cover on the Costa.

Musing on a first encounter with such a vehicle when you have no intention of driving off road ....and considered whether the driver feels safer ... those outside the vehicle are not in the equation of course. .. yet since the vehicle is the size of a small minibus, it is reducing manouevrability for little benefit in passenger or freight ... hmmm

In its favour, the name does suggest finding new places, unlike similar tank-like monsters which add to the superiority complex of the driver with a dash of aggression with, names like Warrior, Shogun and Killer (may have made the last one up) ...

Anyway, there are buses and walking routes (albeit dangerous), and the Disco will be used gratefully ... and sparingly ... suggestions for a pet name as well as a nickname ( my last car, a powder blue Nissan Micra, was called Rosy and very feminine ... seem to have missed the point of having ego enhancers as vehicles ...)