Today I should be at the Royal Marsden hospital in Chelsea to see a specialist about my lung cancer. But I have had to cancel it and be transferred to yet another different hospital. Why? Because getting there by pubic transport means lots of walking that neither I nor my mum are fit enough to do and because it is impossible to park.
You see the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea do not recognise the European wide blue badge disabled parking scheme. Which means while residents bays sit empty while people are at work disabled people cannot park in them without their car being towed away. Or on yellow lines.
So I can drive to Amsterdam and legally park outside a brothel. I can drive to Athens and park outside a Taverna. But I cannot drive to a specialist cancer hospital four miles from my home and park while I get the treatment I need to save my life.
What a country!
Here is a bird.
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