cap'nhaddock
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The council have decided that the wall is in a dangerous condition, they have fenced off the area behind my wonky blue line.
That affects two things, the fishing, it was not a bad place to fish from most of the year and a very good place to fish during the squid season.
The second thing affected is the parking, ever quick to turn a problem into a money making situation they have carefully removed white lines denoting parking bays in the affected areas, marked with the red line, but seem to have run out of enthusiasm and white paint to mark newly created parking spaces.
How fortunate for them that the rules state that a vehicle must be parked in a marked bay, kerchinnnggg.
Vehicles in the areas marked in red, perfectly sensibly parked end to end and with tickets for a day's parking were being ticketed. I said to an attendant that it seemed very unfair as they caused no problem at all ( the reason for the marked bay rule) he answered that they had been told to pay attention to that area.
A few cones would have meant that people's holidays were not spoiled, there's a special name for those in the Dorset Council Offices.
This was at about 3pm. Had they ticketed the early arrivals in the morning the yellow parking penalty envelopes on the cars would have given an indication to later arrivals that the council were going in heavy handed but no, wait to get the space filled up, get the revenue up.
The fishing was poor, The water was clear but there was no sign of any sand eels or bait fish. I was hoping to catch a gar, one was caught in the morning, an event that makes the news these days.
That affects two things, the fishing, it was not a bad place to fish from most of the year and a very good place to fish during the squid season.
The second thing affected is the parking, ever quick to turn a problem into a money making situation they have carefully removed white lines denoting parking bays in the affected areas, marked with the red line, but seem to have run out of enthusiasm and white paint to mark newly created parking spaces.
How fortunate for them that the rules state that a vehicle must be parked in a marked bay, kerchinnnggg.
Vehicles in the areas marked in red, perfectly sensibly parked end to end and with tickets for a day's parking were being ticketed. I said to an attendant that it seemed very unfair as they caused no problem at all ( the reason for the marked bay rule) he answered that they had been told to pay attention to that area.
A few cones would have meant that people's holidays were not spoiled, there's a special name for those in the Dorset Council Offices.
This was at about 3pm. Had they ticketed the early arrivals in the morning the yellow parking penalty envelopes on the cars would have given an indication to later arrivals that the council were going in heavy handed but no, wait to get the space filled up, get the revenue up.
The fishing was poor, The water was clear but there was no sign of any sand eels or bait fish. I was hoping to catch a gar, one was caught in the morning, an event that makes the news these days.
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