Pitcairn Islands

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 VAUXHALL VIVA

Tragic news for all of you who love these islands like I do. As you all know our Island's Motto: Vauxhall Viva, which we have always believed to be latin for Young Blood Rise Up!,

Well it seems that we have been mislead for all these years, I was recently informed by a Mrs. Anita Bush of the Vauxhall's Owners Club of Great Britain, that the Vauxhall Viva was a mid range saloon of the 1970s and 80s in Britain.

I can only assume the neat embossed metallic wording we have surmounted under the flag in the Council Offices is a nameplate from said motor vehicle.

I asked Mrs. Bush if she could think of any other latin enscriptions we could use, and after lengthy debate, during which we discussed Hillman Hunter (to the Victor the Spoils) and Sunbeam Rapier (young flower deflowerer), we finally settled on, and I'm pleased to announce that our new Island Motto is:

Talbot Horizon Coupe- which literally translates as the Sun always Shines on small islands

Quite fitting I thought.

Talbot Horizon Coupe

Ian St. Range

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