[jambutty]

If you have a blue badge garinda and you state that you do, then you should use it at every opportunity. It is rightfully yours to use.

I have no qualms about using mine even on my ‘good’ days, which are getting fewer and fewer.

I would add though that if I have the choice of parking in an on road pay and display area or on nearby yellow lines I choose the yellow lines so that some able bodied person can use the pay and display area.

There was something on the 5 o’clock Chris Evans show on Radio 2 yesterday about parking bays and the sizes thereof WillowTheWhisp. Fox the fox came back with definitive sizes with the previso that they varied slightly. I can’t remember what she said but I have found out at http://www.multi-storey-car-parks.com/car_parking_bays.htm A standard marked parking bay on a car park is about 3 metres wide by about 5.8 metres long, with disabled or mum and toddler bays an extra metre on each side.