Disabled parking

This thing is not without it's silver lining: Charlotte has qualified for a disabled parking permit. Never mind the fact that she is too young to drive and doesn't have good enough vision to qualify for a licence anyway, she gets parking perks. I'm sure we'll be suitably grateful if she has significant mobility issues in the future, but for now they're perks.

Now, where we live, these parking perks are particularly valuable. We can park in any resident's parking bay almost anywhere in London. Given the fact at there is no free parking anywhere in central London, this is huge! To put it in perspective: if we go for a playdate by car, we would normally have to put the car on a meter; I have to buy an annual parking permit just to park the car outside our own house. Thanks to Charlie, I never have to pay for parking again!