I thought you might like to see my dashboard pals!

DashboardPals

(Did you think it would be spiders?)

Nine views and no comments! I guess only a soppy girl would put these in her Coupe!

(This is what I do for a wee sideline - I sell teddies.)

Mirjam..

GrumbleBee..

I love those! Did you knit them?

Would they be the three teddy tenors or Il Divo bears

Calm down Ash, it's two pics of the same one

The wee one was presented to me by the wife of the organiser of the Viva Italia event at Assen on our belated arrival and the larger one was made by the same person and arrived a couple of weeks later, unannounced

I like the teddies, they're nice, but I wouldn't have anything like that on my dash as I'd find they would hinder/restrict my view.

Theresa I only put them in the middle for the photo, when I'm driving they are safely tucked into the corner edge of the dash.

They are Ty beanie baby bears, from left to right, Baristo the Italian bear, Holy Father (a Pope John Paul memorial bear) and Mistletoe, a Christmas bear chosen just for his colour, to match the Italian flag. I think it is appropriate to have a St Christopher medal in an Italian car, even though there is some controversy over whether he actually existed.

Patron saint of travellers? For coupe owners I'd have thought that St Jude was more appropriate...

Ha ha! Lost causes! Very funny!

I wondered if anyone would recognise him

Course I do

I was brought up Catholic and went to a Convent school. From which I was expelled. But not before learning all about saints and sinners.

Makes note: speak to Barnacle about way of vetting members in future

Yes we definitely need more like Annie

Don't look at me; I was thrown out of the (CofE) school choir for refusing to sing the ones with any religion in them.

Oh, me and my friends deliberately sang badly at the audition so we didn't have to be in the choir. I was also dared to say "Cod" instead of "God" all through a reading at Assembly, and I duly obliged. My form mistress asked me if I had a cold. Tee hee.

"Cod the father, Cod the son, and Cod the Holy Spirit ..." Well, it was funny at the time.

Annie, I attended a boys C of E school and was in the chorus of "The Mikado" where, in the 3 Little Maids song we sang, "come from a ladies' cemetery".

All good fun when one looks back!

AKA JC, Big Daddy, and the Spook...

Barnacle that's Dave Allen isn't it? My Aunt was a nun and his programme was the absolute favourite at her convent. They loved the Pope falling off his sedan chair apparently!

I think he did that joke, yes.