Enter the Mattmobile...

ST earlier this week ran a picture story about an indulgent grandfather in Henan, China...

As for this grandfather-to-be (moi), he has assembled complicated scale model cars in his lifetime but a "Lambo" of such dimensions as the one above is way beyond his technical competence.

Meanwhile, there will be a mother and child reunion next month and this grandfather-to-be (and the grandmother-to-be too) reckoned there will be many occasions thereafter when a seven-seater baby pram would come in handy. So while the mum-to-be and the dad-to-be went about looking for the usual single-seater pram for baby-to-be Matthew (Matt), the two seniors went a-searching for a suitable seven-seater, a.k.a. an MPV.

And so, the Mattmobile arrived last month...

Yes, it even comes with a sun-roof so baby Matt can have a peek at the billowy clouds. Vroom with a view, so to speak.

In welcoming the Mattmobile, we also made the pragmatic (ie, head over heart) decision to part with our "Sweet Pork" (Swift Sport) and our "Flu Bug" (Renault Fluence). Here's Sweet Pork, decked out in "Rudolph the Red Nose" reindeer gear for last year's Christmas...

...and playing its patriotic part during National Day celebrations:

    I shall especially miss Sweet Pork. And here's our parting "shot" of the Flu Bug: