Lacey Lou , Esme Grace and Reuben Bruce

That's what we always find at the rest stops when we travel.  I can understand why they can't be kept up as nice as the rest of the rest stop  - but dog areas are always dirt with dead sticker/burr plants everywhere.

What a shock horrror and I don't blame you as those brambles are horrid in the paw pads. Hope you do fire a letter off to the council....that's just terriable

I am currently mulling over a similar email to our council.

We pulled up in the car on the Promenade this morning, to have breakfast before our walk.  I knew there were new Pay and Display machines, and I have used them before (with cash), so I wasn't expecting the drama I had.

Firstly, I REALLY STRUGGLED to read the TINY print on the instructions.

Then it refused my coins and wanted a card instead.

Then the layout and instructions for using the card were tortuous and absurdly counter-intuitive.

Then when the ticket was printed, it was really awkward to extract from the slot.

Wot a palaver!!!

I am 49, computer literate and have a reasonable amount of Parking Machine experience.  That new machine seemed to have been designed to deliberately confuse, and my parents would have been totally unable to even read the instructions without a magnifying glass, yet alone follow them.

VERY unimpressed.

I hear ya  about the updated machines.....There's a new one in Morley that's got more sense than I do!  Blasted thing

First the key pad is made child size for tiny fingers...press the keys and insert your license tag number and letters. Then insert a coin and it finally clicks and churns out a scrap of paper that's all but impossible to get out that little window it's behind...No wonder their remaining customers are parking elsewhere...At first you can't read instructions and following them would be daunting for elderly that can't see to start with....much less remember their tag numbers