Kitty - I don't think we have a song yet about people talking shop when we are trying to switch off thinking about work, I'll get our writers onto it.

How about we come and entertain your colleagues at work? We're doing the Met Office in Exeter, Traffic Management would be great too. All we need is a ten or fifteen minute break and a bit of space, unless you could organise something longer. Then we might help all of you stay sane.

Shiny Bum Kerry Kennedy ran parking in Canberra for a while, and survived. But he did nick the authentic gear for our act that Sandra mentions!

London is a different proposition of course for parking, and certainly deserves its own song. How about:

STREETS OF LONDON - PARKING (with abject apologies from Chris Clarke to Ralph McTell)

Have you seen the old man in his old battered Micra
Circling the same block with his worn out tyres
In his eyes you see no hope
Is that gap a meter? - nope!
Yesterday's parking fine hardly inspires

How can you tell me you're driving
And say, for you, that you won't get fined?
Let me take your car and try
To park it in the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old gal who walks the streets of London
On a meter somewhere, must feed it by noon,
She's no time for talkin, she just keeps right on walkin
Streets all look the same here, she must pass it soon

In the all night cafe at a quarter past eleven
Same old man sitting there on his own
Thinking of the clamp on the rim of his car wheel
Missed the last train and forgot his mobile phone

Have you seen the old man with the ticket on his windscreen
Walking speed fading with the pacemaker he wears
In our grid-locked city, the law shows little pity
For one more forgotten driver in a world that doesn't care

There, I'm sure that makes you feel much better about your work!

Cheers,
Chris