Wednesday Top Tip: Parking in a new place

When visiting a new town or city and parking in the streets it can be hard to remember where you put your car. There was a story in recent months about a lady who lost her car for several weeks as she forgot where she had parked it... My simple solution is to photograph the street name so that you can check it when you need to get back to your car. You can even then just type it into Google Maps and i will tell you how to get there! It works in big car parks too as you can just photograph the floor/bay numbers for easy reference (maybe even the name of the car park if you are as scatterbrained as me...):

#usefultips for days out... when street parking photograph the street name so you remember where you’ve left the car when it’s time to go home!

A post shared by Becky Willoughby (@lakessinglemum) on Jul 24, 2018 at 1:06am PDT

Do you have any useful parking tips when visiting places?

Dear Inconsiderate Driver *rant alert*

Herewith are some open letters to some of the inconsiderate drivers I've come across this week:


Dear badly parked driver,


In future could you please try and stick to your own parking bay in a narrow underground car park? It is actually nice to be able to park in an allocated bay without having to:

• a) fold my wing mirrors in 
• b) perform a contortionist trick to get back in

I do hope you enjoyed having to climb in from the passenger side of your car to get back in?

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Dear inconsiderate parker,

Did you not notice that you had pulled up on double yellow lines? Did you not see that there was an alley way with vehicle access that you were blocking the exit of?

Please next time wear your glasses if you need them and look before you park your vehicle.

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Dear Mr HGV driver,

I know you have a tight delivery schedule but wouldn't it better for everyone if you avoided the narrow roads at school drop off and pick up times? It must be hard enough to drive down the village streets without all the extra cars doing the school run.

Yours with little hope that anything will change,

Mrs W