Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[Tiggy]

my surgery is opposite an infant school in a very narrow side road, we have a car park for patients & staff but the Moms all use it when delivering the little ones to school so between 8.20-9 its packed, the nurses often struggle to park. This morning my own patient list started at 8.30 but I gave up at 8.40 waiting for a space & parked in a GP spot at the front of the building, I let the receptionist know so that I could move it later if there was a problem. At 11 I found out that one of my Drs had a ticket for parking on the pavement outside the surgery he is going to appeal, one of the practice nurses were parked at the front too, should we offer to pay some of the fine?

[debbier]

Would they pay if it was your fine?

[Tiggy]

thinking about it probably not

[Egluntyne]

I think you should complain to the school and and give them the ticket. Insist that they circulate a letter to the parents indicating that they are trespassing.

 

We had a similar problem with people parking on our property at work. A barrier soon fixed that. Being unable to get your car out without a token concentrates the mind wonderfully.

[Charlottechicken]

I was going to suggest asking the school to cough up too.

 

There's a school in my road. Parents park on the zig zags outside the school on the pavements, double yellow lines, builders merchant staff parking bays, they just don't care. Best of it is, this is a little primary school in a city, most children live less than 1/4 of a mile away, and most arrive between 8.55 and 9.10, some partially dressed.

[Tiggy]

the barrier is a good idea! I wonder how much it would cost? Our practice manager has written to the school on several occasions but no one takes any notice. TBH most of the parents are also patients & some/a lot of them can be very unpleasant if they cannot get their own way. There have been incidents where members of staff have politely asked them not to leave their car on our carpark when they are dropping children at school and the response is always rude and aggressive. We have a notice to say we will clamp anyone who parks like this but we dont have one really!!!

[Snowy]

How annoying! I would also complain to the school. We have a similar problem - we live in a small cul de sac off the road that the school is on. Again, most parents are from our small village and easily within walking distance. I know it gets busy and I don't mind that, but i do object when they park over the end of our drive, or all over the grass verges so they are churned to mud, or so badly at the end of our road that is impossible to even leave or return to our house on some days. We have spoken to the Community Support Officers and they come and patrol some days which does improve things on that day, but it is just as bad again next day

[Tiggy]

I know life is busy for Moms and most folks drive but many live very close to the school so I dont know why they cant walk! there are double yellow line outside the surgery & the ticket cops often catch people (GPs included) so the Moms just grumble about being given no choice so have to use our car park.

[chickenanne]

... They could always walk instead. Or park 5 minutes away rather than right outside. Sorry, but parking badly particualrly around schools is really ignorant.

[Tiggy]

I feel sorry for our district nurses who are based with us, they come & go all day and sometimes have to park on the little Tesco car park up the road

[sjp]

commplaining to the school is a waste of breath got a primary school oppersite me have to plan when to go out or come back home.not after 8:30 or before 9:15 in a morning or after 2:30 or before 3:45 in an afternoon most of the cars in the street duering the day are school staff that are to lazy to park on the car parks. school fairs play and parent evenings are murder thay've got one of the biggest play grounds in the bourgh and won't use it as a carpark unless it's for the car boot sale 4 time a year. yes I've commplained just the week (after I nearly got a ticket last friday got home street full had to park on the zigzags 5 imns before the time limit was up first time in months we've had a PCSO patrol the estate in months) made no differance

[Tiggy]

Drs receptionists have a scary reputation, so we could put them on the gate to sort them all out, what you think I remember when receptionsits were all like the Les Dawson character, ours are just too nice

[sjp]

... They could always walk instead. Or park 5 minutes away rather than right outside. Sorry, but parking badly particualrly around schools is really ignorant.

the school by me some of them live less than a minute away by foot and still use the car

got some that turn up 1hr before schools out so they can park by the gates I've even had them knock the door whanting to know how long the vans going to be parked outside My own house because I parked in THEY'RE space won't tell you what I said as it's a family forum but off was part of it

[jlo]

Drs receptionists have a scary reputation, so we could put them on the gate to sort them all out, what u think I remember when receptionsits were all like the Les Dawson character, ours are just too nice

 

Crikey - if I were a parent about to park in a dodgy way - the thought of being told off by a doctor's receptionist would certainly be enough to put me off. They can be very

[Tiggy]

SJP I wish I had a camera for when you opened the door to that one, cheeky so & so!

 

I also do not understand why the kiddies cannot be dropped off & allowed to play in the yard with their friends before the school bell, why do they have to stay with Mom until the very last min, they stand around the school gate for 30 mins, do I sound like a grumpy old woman (YES I DO).

[Tiggy]

Drs receptionists have a scary reputation, so we could put them on the gate to sort them all out, what u think I remember when receptionsits were all like the Les Dawson character, ours are just too nice

 

Crikey - if I were a parent about to park in a dodgy way - the thought of being told off by a doctor's receptionist would certainly be enough to put me off. They can be very

 

[Alis girls]

Give it to the school - they can have a whip round. the Drs won't cough up - I know I work for some too. You did tell the receptionist so its not your fault. good luck

[Clur]

the barrier is a good idea! I wonder how much it would cost? Our practice manager has written to the school on several occasions but no one takes any notice. TBH most of the parents are also patients & some/a lot of them can be very unpleasant if they cannot get their own way. There have been incidents where members of staff have politely asked them not to leave their car on our carpark when they are dropping children at school and the response is always rude and aggressive. We have a notice to say we will clamp anyone who parks like this but we dont have one really!!!

 

What you should do is buy a clamp, and clamp a staff member's car. It'll be highly visible and off-putting to parent's on the school run and actually you won't have to mess around with the hassle of trying to get money from people. Do that for a week to different staff cars and I bet you won't have a problem after that

[Space Chick]

I love your lateral thinking there Clur

[Redwing]

me too, thats genius!

[Griffin]

I'm nodding in agreement with so many of these posts I'm a prisoner in my own home from 8.40am-9.10am and again from 2.40pm-3.10pm There is an infants school at the bottom of my road. There is no other road out, I have to use that one and it's inpenetrable at those times due to inconsiderate parents parking on double yellow lines & zig-zags virtually turning the whole street into a single track lane. How lives haven't been lost yet I don't know, they'll drive on the pavements when the road is blocked! It's a very small town, the majority of families could walk, and there is a public car park a mere three or four minute walk away! My youngest daughter Georgia goes to a nursery five miles away three mornings a week and we have to get out of here early or risk getting stuck.

[Alis girls]

If these mums are patients and are rude to staff they should be threatened with removal from list. Our Docs for all their faults - do not put up with abuse of staff and believe me the general public are horrible - you see humans (and I use the term lightly) at their worst. Some of us refuse to see certain patients esp if we have bad history. i think the clamp idea is brilliant. Some of the mums from a neighbouring posh private school near YS are hateful in their big cars. manners cost nothing. Good luck I hope you get it sorted

[bluekarin]

If speaking to the school hasn't helped then maybe a chat with the local paper? Like the pretend wheel clamp idea Parents are a law unto themselves when driving their kids to school. I walk mine, have done for the past 9 years, and there are people who life very near me, who constantly drive their little angels to school everyday - it's only a 10 minute walk max. My hubby will drive ours only on very rare occasions like when YD's arthritis was very bad, or when ED foot was really bad. What really annoys me is how fast some of them drive up the hill as they are a bit late. Or when, on my way home, in the pouring rain they won't even stop to let us cross the road. Sometimes we have been stood waiting for nearly 5 minutes.

[sjp]

Griffin they fixed the parking on double yellows here the first monday they went 'live' 8 tickets in as many miutes on one corner the crafty beggar printed them off from a distance they never saw him coming

[fluffyfeet]

There are problems outside my sons school too - and there is a massive pub car park that we are allowed to use by the landlady in the morning and again in the afternoon for a period of half an hour each time.

 

Apart from that we are told in no uncertain terms, on a notice board at the entrance to the car park, that if parents abuse it they will have barriers installed.

 

Even when the school holds plays, parents evenings etc there are no exceptions and that works.

 

The other thing that happened was because a lot of parents were doing the 'dump and dash' routine across peoples drives, the local residents requested a traffic warden to patrol between 8.30 and 9.00 on random mornings - that was the most effective by far - and a few parents faces were nearly as red as the officers uniform - ooh I did titter.....

 

Dawn x