Minor Attractions

This morning, I got a really nice surprise. I saw an old car that reminded me of my first days as a driver. At my regular breakfast place, I saw an old Morris Minor Traveller Wagon (Woody). Its owner is Tommy Bentley, a Barbadian businessman. He bought the car a couple of years ago; it's a 1968 model. (My Dad had a regular Morris 1000 when we lived in England and it was the first car that I had to drive in the early 1970s, and which my father let me keep when I went off to university and beyond.)

Mr. Bentley, who really ought to be driving a car of that name, seemed very attached to the car, which he has renovated and hopes to show locally, at least in February 2010.

On Mr. Bentley himself, he told me he is Bajan born, but his family came from England to the Caribbean this century. He is descended from David Williams Bentley, the Seventh Bishop of Barbados (1930-45, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David Williams Bentley).