Today I decided to google the phrase " you can do it Duffy Moon" as I remember it from a kids TV film nearly 30 years ago. 'The Amazing Cosmic Awareness of Duffy Moon' "You Can Do it Duffy Moon" comes into my head at odd times.
It relates to the memory from a family holiday to Perranporth, Cornwall and of the trip across Bodmin moor in a hired Transit minibus, which was a replacement for the first minibus we had hired that broke down not even 5 miles from home. Well this was not a very new transit and it struggled going up every hill going across the moor. with me sitting in the back sort of holding my breath and mumbling 'you can do it Duffy Moon', can't remember if my sister Claire did it as well ?. I know you wouldn't understand it if you hadn't seen the film, and in my defense I was about 12, and surprisingly we did make it up every hill !
Update ;
The first van was a bedford, which my dad didn't like as it had no engine in front for you to look at. I remember seeing something drop off the van as we were driving along, part of the gearbox we believe.
It wasn't just the struggle up hill that was the problem, it was all the vehicles we were holding up that were trying to pass us, with some offering to give us a tow.
The van wasn't any trouble for the rest of the holiday, it just didn't like Bodmin.
4 comments:
I remember!! I think Dad was going to kill you!
I have a fragmented memory, so don't remember that bit but wouldn't of been surprised .
I'm 55 and my "baby sister" is 42; we watched that show when she was about 10, and that has always been a catch-phase for each other. No one else knew what we talking about when we said,"you can do it, Duffy Moon. We thought we were the only ones out there that remembered.
My boyfriend has been wondering what I was smokin' whenever I'd say "You can do it, Duffy Moon!" Now I'd like to show him the movie, but can't find it archived anywhere digitally. That makes me sad.
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