It may be a rattle-heap but buying and running your first car marks a rite of passage for most teenagers, usually requiring a fill-up from the Bank of Mum and Dad, a friendly mechanic – and don’t mention the insurance. But high school pupils in Cuba, a country where few can contemplate, let alone afford, a car, decided to take banger-nomics to a new level and have built a replica of a Model T Ford – propelled with pedals instead of a petrol engine.
Category: Mum & Dad
Some fatherly advice and what I learnt from Alan Jones
“Look to other, older men,” he said to me once when I was in my late teens and we were picking oranges together on our orchard at Peats Ridge. “See how they live their lives, ask them what they have learnt themselves, and learn from them.