Ticketed!

I got a parking ticket this morning!

I'd been in Zac's sorting out clothes into ones we can use, ones for the charity shop, and ones for the tip piles. I fetched the car and parked opposite Zac's so I could load it up. No, I wasn't in a proper parking bay but I was only going to be there a few minutes and I wasn't in anyone's way.

I went and fetched a load of bags and came out to the parking warden looking embarrassed. He'd just been told by Kit, who'd been helping me, why I was parked there. The poor warden was very apologetic and regretful but explained that once he'd taken the ticket out of the machine there was nothing he could to reverse it.

I came home planning to appeal but Kit later messaged me and said he'd paid the fine. Wasn't that kind of him? 

Traffic wardens are keen around Zac's after one of our volunteers complained to them about Muslims parking all over the place when they went to Friday prayers in the mosque opposite - something that bothered her more than it should have. Perhaps I should have asked her to pay the fine!

Came home, had lunch, wondered what to do next. Decided, as it had stopped raining, to tidy the top of the drive.

We used to come up the drive and park in front of the garage but Husband banned me from doing that because I kept driving into the post at the bottom. (Once I did it! Okay, maybe twice. But no more.) So for a long time we've parked out the front. But now with two skips and sometimes a builder's lorry out there we've had to return to the drive. And the top was looking very overgrown, unkempt, and generally uncared for. 

This is after clearing, by the way. Where you can see the dug-up bits of mud is where I worked. Before that it was much worse than the bit you see in the middle. The area above the little bit of wall at the side I've been using to transplant day lilies and some sort of geranium, I think, that I wanted to move from the main garden. Surprisingly they seem to have taken well. The plants along the bottom of the wall are forget-me-nots, which will look lovely when they flower so I didn't dig those up.

Nobody else is going to notice my hard work but I'm pleased with what I did. And now I've made some chocolate raisin slice to take out to the working girls tonight.

Time to sit and read I think.