Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

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Finally!!!

I’m mobile again. You really don’t know how much you rely on the car till you don’t have one. Living in the city years ago it was no problem; public transport filled the gaps, and made having a car not only largely unnecessary for day to day life, but pretty pointless. It is quicker, easier, cheaper and ecologically friendlier to use buses than it is to sit alone in a traffic jam or fight for a parking space.

Here, however, in a rural village, it is a different story and your choices become very limited. Expensive too, when taxis have to plug the gaping holes in public transport, where buses per day can be counted on your fingers and destinations are even more limited.

There is more to it than the practicalities though, the car represents possibility. Even if I don’t go anywhere… I could…