The Council knows best....

Yesterday afternoon as I was sitting at my computer, enjoying a little post lunch relaxation, my peace was disturbed by a council lorry parking opposite the house. Naturally I was nosey curious so I watched for a while; I thought they were just parking up to waste time take a break, or even do some work on the main road. Next thing the two chaps were looking at a car parked outside my house and picking up some litter- must be a first. I normally find after we get waste or recycling collections there is more rubbish blowing about than before and I end up clearing it from the front garden and the road (I musn't digress)!!! The men saw me and made gestures which I gathered meant 'did the car belong to me'. I explained who I thought the car belonged to and they went and asked the guy to move it and then promptly started marking the road. When I asked what they were doing they said putting down 'keep clear signs'. I was quite surprised as we already have yellow lines around the corners from the main road and there have rarely been any problems with visibility.

It took them about an hour to slowly do the work and when they left we had these ugly great markings on both sides of the road outside our house and that of my neighbour. When I rang Embee to tell him (I won't repeat what he said because I don't swear but one word rhymed with 'mucking'). The real point is we had no warning that this was happening (a letter would have been courteous- dream on) there were no notices posted (too easy) to clear the road and as far as we know no one had complained about the parking- or had they!!!

This has actually reduced the parking space and it remains to be seen if this will cause us problems by not being able to park outside our house. Along the main road there are several houses owning more than one car who regularly park in this road as they don't have sufficient frontage to comfortably park in their own driveways. It's also a real eyesore, but I expect I will soon get used to it... it does mean that we don't have to look at any parked cars from our sitting room window so that's the bonus :)

What's in a name!!!!!

What does your car say about you or better still what does a BMW dealer call himself......... !!!!!



This is one of the road signs we saw in Legoland and it's right up my street!!!!!


I started looking for signs after reading this post of John's and although this was not quite what he had in mind it's my contribution so far!!!!