Long Distance Clara

As a kid of around 6 or 7, I used to really look forward to Pigeon Street coming on, not for Mr Macadoo and his pals mind you, no, for Long distance Clara. Long distance Clara was a woman on a mission, in a strictly male dominated world of trucking, she was a red-haired, no-nonsense, can-do kinda girl, 'picking up and dropping off her heavy loads'. I always knew I wanted to go far, to travel and to succeed at work and so I identified with Clara as a metaphor for 'one day in the future I want to live my life just like her'.

'She can drive across the Sahara, nothing's too far away'. Well, exactly.

Like Clara too, I've always been a conscientious, on-time kind of person. 'Always on time, she's never late'. A tip-top role model.

Long distance Clara appears between 06.12 and 07.52 in the clip below.