charabanc

• “You've no doubt guessed the festive twist already; yes, instead of trundling around sunny southern Europe, the titular charabanc will slowly wend its way to Lapland, culminating in a meeting with "the real Father Christmas".”

  The Guardian: It's a good week for … Spurious Festive Specials

• “From a charabanc hung red, green and white flags at every window.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Small Death in the Great Glen

• “My mother was once in a charabanc that went under a railway bridge in Bedfordshire and then slowly tipped over and deposited them all into a ditch.”

  Chez Moi

• “They were going to Clacton in what he called a “charabanc.””

  Simon & Schuster: Portobello

• “Once again he saw himself, as if in a nightmare, watching impotently as the bizarre charabanc of facts and conjecture hurtled on its predestined course.”

  Fictionaut: She Closed Her Eyes

• “I never thought that anything could make Alma or the Kabul retreat seem like a charabanc picnic, but that day did, and I was through it, dawn to dusk, as no other man was.”

  Fictionaut: The Sky Writer

• “Paying for a charabanc for a trip to London for a Rowen led protest.”

  The Thursday Cyril: Rochdale Lib Dems Brickwall

• “Who needs to worry about defectors when you have someone inside the Government, shoving a brick on the accellerator and pointing the party charabanc at a wall...”

  Hazel Blears Calls it As She Sees It

• “To hear some of my friends in politics and political journalism talk, you would think that democracy is a kind of jolly charabanc on to which all reasonable citizens have clambered, even if we may argue about the route.”

  Archive 2004-06-06

• “On cold, wet, ragged mornings they were all like that in my first year I'd board this ice-box of a charabanc and be greeted, without fail, with the same transmission comprising of music videos for 'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden and 'Out Of Tears' by The Rolling Stones.”

  Archive 2005-11-01

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