Seeing the heather in bloom across the Quantocks took me right back to childhood. Then people would go for a drive into the moors of Durham, North Yorkshire or Northumberland and while there snip a posy of heather off and place it in their car grille. I guess it was a symbol of affluence - I can afford to go for a drive on a Sunday. I'd forgotten you'd regularly see cars driving around Tyneside complete with their little bit of heather. Cars don't have proper grilles now, and snipping heather blooms off would be despised somewhat. So today we just enjoyed the view, a picnic sitting in the car and taking Gideon for a little drive up onto the moors.
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