My Dinky

Several weeks ago I reminisced about the Dinky I had as a child. From the requests for clarification I received I realised that "Dinky" was a local term and in a subsequent blog post I explained what a Dinky was.

Two weeks ago my cousin lent me a case of her late mother's photos that I have started to scan. Among the treasures I found were two photos (below) of "Little Jilly" riding her dinky at her Nana Curry's house just as I had described.

Thanks, Cousin Jane, I am enjoying your photos.

What's a Dinky?

"As we lived in a a flat my dinky, scooter and bicycle with training wheels lived at Nana's. I spent many happy Sundays tootling up and down the garden path and the footpath in my vehicles."

That quote from a recent post of mine resulted in a question from one of my readers, Kylie. "What's a dinky, Jill?"  I responded "A very small tricycle for pre-schoolers. I have a picture of my daughter on her Cyclops dinky. A Google image search for Cyclops Dinky will bring up some pictures."

As a picture is sometimes worth a thousand words I thought I should dig through the family album to find a dinky picture.  I couldn't find the one with my daughter so I am posting this picture from 1977 of one of my boys on his dinky.

A Google search for the meaning of the word dinky tells me that is has several different meanings today. I wonder if that is why Kylie posed her question.