What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Dave Mann]

I've been visiting a friend in Macclesfield hospital for the last week and up to yesterday used the modern. The car parking procedure is park your car, visit my friend, then on leaving you go to one of two machines type in your registration number and up pops a photograph of your car with the parking charge due. Yesterday I decided to test this modern technology with a Seven having white numerals on a black plate, I typed in the registration number and sure enough no photograph popped up, just a range of charges, so I duly paid the correct amount. I've long suspected that technology can't read white numbers on a black plate since I was followed for about half a mile by a Police ANPR car. He didn't stop me for not having a MOT certificate when I should have had one and he wasn't in a hurry as he didn't pass me.