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I found one more sleepsuit (well, footed outfit... it was a bit fancy for just sleeping) my mother got. It had elephant ballerinas on it! Silliest design ever I think.

Ha, someone's selling one on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/KISSY-KISSY-girl-Elephant-Ballerina-romper-3-6-m-NWT_W0QQitemZ130097869434QQihZ003QQcategoryZ57825QQcmdZViewItem

(I'm embarrassed to say that after dressing her in 2 Kissy Kissy outfits, and 1 of their hats, I love the clothes. I still wouldn't pay $30 for a sleepsuit, but I wouldn't turn any down.)

The other annoying thing is that it snaps up the back, which makes it more difficult to put on (though diaper changing is all right). That brings me to another subject: impractical baby clothes. I'm going to be honest: the easiest thing to dress a baby in is the all in one outfit (romper, sleepsuit, dungarees/overalls, even a dress) over a onesie if necessary. It is SO much easier to change diapers when you just have to undo the snaps. Dresses can be OK as long as they're not too short and you don't need tights, but trousers? PITA!

I also dislike 3/4 length rompers. They ride up, often past the knees, and leave a gap between the hem and the socks. I'm definitely going to look for more full length ones in future.

http://www.hendontimes.co.uk/display.var.1340789.0.parking_inadequate.php

This is NOT news to me! It's taken us 25 minutes to get a space. I love the comment saying "Admittedly I have a disabled parking badge, but I have yet to wait more than seven minutes to find a space." Think that might have something to do with it?!

(For those of you who don't want to read--there are only 150 spaces available to the public at any one time, because staff are taking up 40-50% of the public carparks! There are 893 spaces, with 586 for staff only and 307 for the public. And they have the nerve to charge £4 a day.)

Parking at Barnet Hospital is terrible and it was a totally foreseeable problem that could have been solved when the hospital was built. Barnet is an out-of-town hospital. Only 2 buses serve the hospital directly; 3 stop at various points in Wood Street, a few minutes walk away (OK for visitors and staff, problematic for ill or disabled people). It's 15 minutes walk (TfL estimate) from High Barnet station. It is blatantly obvious that it's a place people will drive to. A multistory car park should have been built when the hospital was rebuilt in the 1990s. There is room on the site for this, but it wasn't built--even though the high parking charges would have paid for it. (Of course, the government thinks high parking charges are an acceptable way of raising funds for the NHS!)