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Paul + Wendy

27/9/2006 at 8:42pm
Location: South Gloucestershire
Outfit: Avondale Kingfisher Super 1979

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We've got an Abbey Cambridge with an Isabella awning so we call it Gabbeyella

chrissie7

27/9/2006 at 9:00pm
Location: None Entered
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I'm with Netty here - ours is 'The Van', as have been all its predecessors. A name? It's an object, not a person!

AndrewK

27/9/2006 at 11:18pm
Location: Oldham
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It's a Burstner (german) and a 'van - so it has to be Ludvig (van)

Benny24

28/9/2006 at 7:31am
Location: Devon
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We call our Eriba Puck "Tinker" because she's a little one!

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vulpecula

28/9/2006 at 10:45am
Location: Stafford
Outfit: Toyota Surf + Swift Corniche

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When my partner told a workmate we had bought a caravan, he christened it. He said, "That's another TIN SNAIL on the road." So the name stuck. A friend on mine called his awning, THE WIDOW MAKER because he nearly had a heart attack whenever he put it up.

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Scampi

28/9/2006 at 11:11am
Location: Leeds
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The caravan is called Millie, short for Mildred, as she's pulled by George Disco!!! (the folding camper we had last year was called Zippy because he had a lot of them!)

As for naming inanimate objects - why not? Many of us develop an almost emotional attachment to things like cars a caravans - they cost us a lot of money and mean a lot to us. So we name them - it's a human thing.

cazanne

28/9/2006 at 1:23pm
Location: Kent.
Outfit: ABI AWARD TRISTAR

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just sticking to the make abi

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debsj

28/9/2006 at 2:03pm
Location: STOKE ON TRENT
Outfit: Swift anniversary '94&Peugeot partner

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Our 1st van was called the SHED!!Now we have Anni cus its a Swift Anniversary!

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