“Parking is one of those ‘Don’t get me started’ topics. Everyone has a story and everyone, but everyone, has an opinion whether it’s the cost, the evil nature of traffic wardens, the lack of free spaces, the insidious spread of parking meters into residential and suburban streets, or the fact that machines will never give change…” Miranda Irving on the frustrations of parking your car in Britain.
This week: Shopping – how technology and business pressures are homogenising the experience of the weekly shop in the UK.
“Bored now, Prince Shuggie tossed the paperback onto the cheap plastic table. Like he cared that cheap plastic tables were banned. He’d inherited it from his grandfather. It was his legacy.” In a short story, Mike Clark presents his nightmare vision of a re-run of the “Forty-Five” Rebellion – three centuries on.
A country track in autumn near Marnhull, Dorset.
This week: Edukashun – are the “best-ever exam results” every year all they seem?
“Mortehoe village is one of several pretty villages in the North Devon area, but it was the sharp textures on this wall that really caught my eye. The angle of the sun set them into strong relief.”