Parking Headaches

Two local news stories during the past week have highlighted the precarious state of handicapped parking in the Halifax area.

The first profiled an office worker in downtown Halifax who uses a wheelchair. He must park his pickup truck on a street spot because the winch on the back of his vehicle is judged to be too high for any of the parking garages in the vicinity.
When he does find a parking spot, he must make sure that he moves his pick up every three hours to avoid getting a parking ticket!
(I did not see a blue parking sign on his vehicle.)
Empty parking spots are rare in downtown Halifax, and sometimes when he must return to the same one, he will later find a parking ticket on his windshield

The 'Charles Todd' Stories

Both my wife and I enjoy reading, across many styles -- but especially mysteries.
A couple of years ago, when we got a ''Kindle,' we embarked on a mystery series by "Charles Todd", an American mother and son storytelling team. Their novels are set during the post World War I period in Britain.

The main character is Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard, a recently demobilized officer in the British army.
Following treatment for 'shell shock' (what we today call PTSD) after the Armistice, he returns to hs pre-war job at Scotland Yard, under his nemesis, Chief Superintendent Bowles.