SHORTCUTS - FROM PARENT TO CHILD, THE MOTORING JOURNEY 15 A FRAUGHT ONE FOR PAUL COCKBURN

摘要

"I'll get it!" The lad's voice is proud and sure. It's time. So I give him the keys to the old Range Rover and watch as he drives around the hillside, where we hide the trailer from civilized sight, to hitch it up himself for the first time. I believe you can imagine my pride as he returns across the paddock with the trailer attached; a pride tinged only by his failure to have raised the jockey wheel which now flaps, shattered and useless, beneath the enterprise. It can be replaced, I tell myself. We're deep into Rite of Passage here, and I must continue to encourage him.