Diesel is now £1.10 per litre.

Which gives us even more incentive to reduce our car usage.

As it is, I only use the car on Mondays (it's cheaper to drive than to take the train to beastly Crawley) and Bobby uses it on Wednesdays (because he stays at work for an extra hour every Wednesday evening so the traffic is really scary when he leaves). The rest of the time, we either bicycle (Bobby) or walk (me and the children). Unless it's really pouring, in which case Bobs takes the car. We do tend to use the car quite a bit on weekends, though, and I think we are going to try to cut back on that.

The other incentive we have to reduce car use is the Great Parking War in which we are currently embroiled. Someone else on our street has taken to parking in the spot we think of as "ours" - the one outside our kitchen window. (Like most other streets here, 99% of homes don't have garages - and any garages that do exist - like ours - are seldom actually used to house cars. Space is far too precious for that!) So we're thinking if we never move our car again (we're in The Spot right now) we'll win the war. Never mind that it'll be a rather hollow victory if it means we can never actually use our car...