A while back I got an email from Della who told me she’d bought a trailer:

I’ve just acquired one second hand was a steal at 30 pounds. The man I got it from used it once it was for his dog he put dog in dog jumped out and that was the end of that. Its been sitting for sometime so had surface rust in places. But nothing that some solvo autosolve has not sorted. Will need a bit of a respray soon. I took it out yesterday to the bottle bank and then back to the clothes bank. And I love it.

In the pic she sent it does indeed look very like mine:

I’m delighted that Della was inspired to go and see the trailer by reading the stuff I’ve written here about my own trailer. My website has done some good!

Della says:

The thing I was surprised about was that when towing the trailer cars actually give you a lot of room and actually over take you rather than cutting you up. Amazing. I was also surprised how easy it was to tow even when it was full of clothes for the clothes bank.

I think she’s right, cars do give you more room if you’ve got a trailer. I think they are frightened of it personally.

The trailer is really easy to tow even with quite heavy loads. In Brighton & Hove we do have a lot of hills but I find that if there is a heavy load then the best thing to do is to get off the bike and walk up the hill.

The pic of Della’s trailer is actually from the ad where she saw it, so the gnome is not her responsibilty!