A fond farewell to Jenny; My beloved Peugeot 106



 Tributes have been paid to a "plucky" Peugeot 106 which has passed away aged just 13.

Jenny carried King's Lynn resident David Blackmore for more than seven years after he purchased her from a car dealer in Coulsdon, near Croydon, on a cold December afternoon for £2,500.

Despite suffering from a broken electric window, wing mirror and a leaky sunroof for many years, Jenny continue to soldier on for her handsome owner and clocked up more than 117,500 miles.





But with her owner set to scrap her before she faced MoT judges in January, Jenny decided to call it quits following a car boot sale in leafy Surrey earlier this month.

David, 25, said: "I can remember the first time I saw Jenny sitting at a car dealers in Coulsdon looking all shiny on a cold and frosty morning. Having had a pretty bad experience with an old Ford Fiesta, I needed a car to remain by my side for a number of yeras and plucky Jenny proved to be that automobile.





"There weren't many places we didn't go together. She stayed with me during my 4-month journalism course in Newcastle and stuck by me when I moved from Surrey to Norfolk in 2010."

He added: "She served me really well over the years, impressed lots of female passengers and will be sorely missed."

A blown head gasket and rotten water pipes were the cause of death and on Tuesday, David waved goodbye to his beloved car as she was taken away to be destroyed.

Other tributes for the Peugeot 106 have been left on social network website Facebook.

On hearing of her untimely death, Epsom resident Katherine Jacques wrote: "No way! Thought she'd live forever."



Meanwhile, Donna Semmens wrote: "The office car park will never be the same - no cars with Gaffer tape holding the sunroof together!"

An anonymous person halso contacted David with this apt poem by Sylvia Chidi:

A car is a car

If it can ride you nearby or far

A car is a car

When it gets you in time to the bar

But for some

A car is not just a car

It is a home

After a daylight roam

It is a home

After a nightly roam

But you see, to me

A car is just a car

Be it in a new silver shining coat

Or one decorated with tarnished scars

The simple reality

Is they all have similar

Passenger capacity

Whether be it a personalised 8 seater stretch limousine

Or a Ferrari with an exploding roaring engine

A car is a car

A vehicle of motion

A medium of transportation

Even when it shows signs of erosion

As long as it can move from junction to junction

I personally sanction

A car is just a car

I got a text this morning from the South African family I stayed with for the majority of the World Cup last year to say that it has been 15 months since I left their country to return to the UK and this gave me a brilliant idea.

You see, I kept a World Cup blog during my stay in the Rainbow country and having recently discovered a really cool website called Wordle (Thanks @LingoLiz) which generates "word clouds" from the text you provide, I decided to allow it to have a butcher's hook at my blog entitled Blackmore On Safari.

Click on the picture below to see the Blackmore On Safari "word cloud" on the Wordle website and see whichs words appeared most frequently in my blog. Why don't you also have a play around with your blog or your Twitter feed to see what "word clouds" Wordle gives you?