• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

WaterShed Words NZ

  • Home
  • About Ceridwyn
  • Daughter of Dementia
  • Soulful
  • Travelling

Help us name the caravan

July 24, 2015 4 Comments

IMG_3303Does a caravan need a name?This little van of ours is technically a Compass Lynx, but we wonder if it needsa name with character, meaning and even humour .

Some names we won’t choose are :Just us Two, Wanderer, SKI, Happy Daze, Love Boat, even Thistle do, Basil, Sibyl, the shed, Movin and Groovin, and Didyabringthebeeralong,

Names are definitely important for people, especially women who are often written out of history.

Judy Small wrote this song about the first woman in Australia to vote:

What was her name/ tell me what was her name? The woman striding out/ to the ballot box to claim/ the right to make her mark/ and set the world aflame/She’s a sister of mine/Tell me, what was her name.watershed 079

We are just talking about a caravan here, but for us, it is a symbol of this stage of life, of the freedom to up and go, of our desire to live (very) simply, to be in beautiful places, and do (very) little.

Our last naming was for Watershed Cottage, our retreat house in the bush, on the Coromandel, overlooking the sea . That place was the culmination of our dreams of an intentional community, and gave us a memorable six years.watershed 053-001

Now this small white caravan parked in the drive is the vehicle(sorry) of this generation of dreams.

So does that need a name? Or will it always be ‘the caravan’?

On our fence we have some white wooden angels, from Trade Aid. They usually get blown down in a strong westerly wind but the storm yesterday could not budge them.Image result for white wooden angels

‘Fallen Angels’- is that a good name for our caravan, and possibly for the people in it?

How about ‘Maiden Voyage’? “Hildegard’?

Any ideas welcome.Help us name the caravan!

NZCaravanBlog

Ceridwyn

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Rosemary Anne Neave says

    August 1, 2015 at 3:57 am

    Maidens Voyage
    Lynx is pretty good too – a couple of wild cats driving
    Watersedge

    Reply
  2. Steve Parr says

    August 2, 2015 at 9:05 am

    How about
    Towed Haul (thats from me)
    Cara (from Trish)
    “TAHFU” (there’s a house following us)
    Cheers
    Steve

    Reply
  3. Robyn Thomas says

    August 5, 2015 at 11:23 am

    Poppy (matching the flower theme and just because it is small and proud) and something about memories and stories…

    Reply
  4. Suz says

    August 23, 2015 at 11:26 am

    Hi Ceri & Danielle,
    Attached is a link to a site about the meaning of Sowelu…. I think it’d be a fabulous name for your caravan… reflecting the life of her new owners….
    Big hugs, Suz xx

    Sent from my iPad

    Begin forwarded message:

    From: Suz Mc Guinness
    Date: 1 August 2015 21:10:18 BST
    To: suz mcguinness

    http://www.trustedtarot.com/runes/sowilo/

    Shared via the Google app

    Sent from my iPad

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Keep in Touch…

  • Email
  • Facebook

Search

Recent Posts

  • Losing my Notes
  • Starting Over
  • How to conduct a choir
  • Anzac Day 2021
  • Time to say goodbye- the last caravanablog

Index to Watershed Words

Copyright © 2022 · Gallery Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in