Have you checked if its due on your car? (Mine is a 10 year old petrol car and wouldnt be charged ulez) .
One person had read an article that said that cars older than 17 years would have to pay and was worried that their car which was only 16 years 8 months old would become non-compliant in 4 months time.
Quite awhile ago, now, while late night shopping, and a very empty car park, I parked nose in, as I wanted to load the boot.PS and FWIW I tend to park further away in the car park because we prefer to have that little distance to stretch our legs!
Perhaps, for some the quick getaway before someone tells them to not leave their trolley 'there'?Talking about supermarket car parks it baffles me why people choose to park boot to boot (reversing into a space), rather than nose to nose. I've seen so many people pushing their trolleys between two parked cars in order to get to the boot when if they parked with the boot facing outwards it would be so much easier.
In part that is why the double lines spacers 'force' the cars a tad further apart.Even better would be if everyone parked on the left hand line of the space everyone could open all their doors without scratching anyone's car ...
Absolutely zero chance of this happening though!
Quite agree with you especially on lane assist and what's more annoying in my car is you can't turn it of permanently and have to remember to turn it of each time you start it, which I don't always remember."Driver aids" that tell/warn me when I am driving, that I am not driving how they think that I should! (eg. Lane assist that wants me to stay perfectly between the lines when my eyes tell me that there are obstacles or adverse cambers etc!) Cars that give you a "welcome" jingle, every time you get in! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
I wish mine just dinged at me it tries to steer me to where it thinks I should go it's a bit like wrestling with an old car with no power steering to go where I want, totally dangerous IMO.Same with mine, it is annoying, especially when in the country and you have to cross the white line to avoid huge pot holes and when I am moving out for a better look around L/H bends.
Sometimes it dings a me to "take over Steering", when I'm obviously steering.
Liz Truss is on sky and BBC news as wellMy home page is the BBC and today the lying scumbag's ugly mug featured large again.
Had enough of that when it was current news, thought he had been banished to the nether regions.
Russell Brand too, what a grim start to the day.Liz Truss is on sky and BBC news as well
My home page is the BBC and today the lying scumbag's ugly mug featured large again.
Had enough of that when it was current news, thought he had been banished to the nether regions.
Liz Truss is on sky and BBC news as well
I have no idea where it all started going wrong. Wrong it is.Russell Brand too, what a grim start to the day.
Just have to hope Trump isn't too newsworthy today
Just booked my Autumn Covid jab for Wednesday, chemist in Somersham is nearest this timeI have no idea where it all started going wrong. Wrong it is.
I rang the dentist this morning in the hope of an appointment and they were shut for training. Excepting something very bad may have occurred and they need emergency training, I am wondering if there is a worse time and day for a medical service to be closed for routine training.
My guess is that will happen one day, sure a lot of people would be happy to pay as they do for a flu jab.I have a seasonal flu booked at work but was not aware I can book a covid one. Will have a look.
Edit: Nope. I’m not pregnant, long term illness etc. wonder if they’ll open up for private jabs as seasonal flu?
My boldWell yesterday actually......
I saw, as I am sure many others have seen, cars in supermarkets straddling two spaces. Now, as we were walking to the store I spotted such a car(might have this one in the past) and asked the female driver "can I ask you please, why have you parked taking 2 spaces" her reply was because I want to......quickly qualified by "I am tired of it getting scratched.......and there are plenty of spaces...,." I said I can understand why she felt she had to. All the while continuing to walk to the store.
The above, asking the question, was much to the chagrin of my OH but as for the lady saying plenty of spaces......it is was not as if she had parked at the farthest distance from the store, she was about half way into the car park amidst the 'thick of the cars'.
So not so much WAMT more saddened me that for her selfish reasoning & logic she chose to park as she & and where she did (in the car park.
PS and FWIW I tend to park further away in the car park because we prefer to have that little distance to stretch our legs!
Quite awhile ago, now, while late night shopping, and a very empty car park, I parked nose in, as I wanted to load the boot.
There were dozens of empty spaces around me.
I'd barely got out the car, and a woman ( sorry if I assumed gender) parked tight next to me I couldn't have got back in the car.
I asked her if her car was feeling lonely.
It took her awhile, but she did twig, and drove forward to the next space. ( I wasn't even close to the entrance like you I always park away even at that time of night)
And my car is red colour ~ agh !My bold
This chap is having a good moan about that very thing..taking up two spaces and also about drivers who park next to his car in an all but empty car park.
From the article: "No wonder some folk park deliberately across two parking spaces to avoid some clown opening their door into their precious motor"
It also addresses why some drivers park their car next to another one when the rest of the car park is all but empty.
A psychologist suggests ......... https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/.../why-do-people-park-next-you-in-empty-carpark
At the time, it was 2 door Chrysler crossfire. 215 BHP 3.2 V6. ( a real granny waggon )Perhaps you drive a car that other people stereotype as being driven by someone polite and considerate.
At the time, it was 2 door Chrysler crossfire. 3.2 V6.
And the doors are over 4 feet wide. A bugger to get in and out of at the best of times.
The same colour as the blue one in the pictures.I wasn't familiar with that car so I Googled it. Very impressive.
At the time, it was 2 door Chrysler crossfire. 215 BHP 3.2 V6. ( a real granny waggon )
And the doors are over 4 feet wide. A bugger to get in and out of at the best of times.
The same colour as the blue one in the pictures.
But the coupe version, not the drop head
The same colour as the blue one in the pictures.
But the coupe version, not the drop head
Absolutely! And my arse was only a few inches off the road,People who have never had a 2 door car don't realise that the doors on a 2 door are at least 20% longer than their 4 door counterpart.
To be fair OED has two definitions, that you quote above and also 'a sharp increase, especially in price'. The latter is apt.I do get annoyed when the media refer to a possible .25% interest rate rise as a 'hike' .This morning reporters were speculating that the Bank of England would hike interest rates by .25% to 5.5%. In the event there was no rise due to an unexpected drop in inflation and they (the Monetary Policy Committee..MPC) don't want to damage a recovery by raising them .Grammatically it goes like this.
Putting aside hike meaning 'a long walk'..
As a noun: An abrupt increase. They meet eight times a year so about every six weeks.Nothing abrupt about that and the Governor always gives signals to the market as to where rates may be going.
Every increase on the tails of the last, as you say pretty much the rate has risen regularly every 6 weeks or so. I have no idea if you have a young family with a huge mortgage trying to make ends meet but suspect not. Every additional lump added to outgoings is money you cannot use elsewhere. I suspect you and I are somewhat of an age with mortgage paid off and saving rates increasing helping our income with loans and mortgages a thing long ago.As a verb: To unfairly or suddenly raise a price...in this case, the cost of money. Nothing unfair or sudden about it.
Moneyweek "The Bank of England has held the base rate at 5.25%, ending its run of 14 consecutive hikes that began in December 2021".