Today we launched a very useful feature which allows you to save a list of your favourite parking spaces direct to your account. These favourites will remain attached to your profile until you delete them.

In addition to our favourites feature, you now also have direct access to downloadable contracts direct from your account. We have over six different types of contract available.

These contracts have been created by our legal team and provide added insurance should either party have any concerns during a transaction.

The Congestion Charge extension into West London has arrived. From today, the £8-a-day road toll scheme now operates in most of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea.

The residents of Kensington and Chelsea aren’t happy about the new charge. They staged a demonstration saying that it will cost homeowners hundreds of pounds a year and damage local businesses because drivers will be put off going to the high streets.

Other opponents of the scheme have argued that it undermines a basic freedom of movement and that it will actually increase congestion within the zone because of the discount available to residents and businesses.

On the plus side and according to both the London Assembly’s Green Party and the Mayor of London, the toll has reduced gridlock on London’s roads, thereby making them safer for pedestrians and cyclists. It has also caused more people to turn to their bicycles and public transport, and helped buses to provide a more reliable service.

Congestion Charge has multiple pros and cons and is a hotly debated topic between various political lobbies and critics and advocates.

One thing the charge does mean is that homeowners and businesses on the edge of the Congestion Zone can earn a small fortune from their empty driveways and garages by renting them at a premium rate to drivers wanting to park just outside the zone to avoid the charge.

For about five Friday nights running and because I can’t leave my car on the street on Saturday mornings when pay-and-display kicks in at 8:30am, I’ve been parking in a neighbour’s empty spot. Each time, I’ve left a note on my windscreen, thanking them and giving them my contact details.

I’ve been wondering when my luck was going to run out and apparently now it has. The Space Owner pulled the plug on Saturday afternoon, calling me up and asking me to ‘kindly not park there anymore’. He said he would be parking there from now on.

Ironically, having worked out which house the space belongs to (the driveway/house arrangement is a bit higgeldy piggeldy down my little mews so not that obvious), I had gone out that morning and bought a box of chocolates to take round. I knocked on the door but no one was in and an hour later, before I’d had a chance to knock again, he rang.

I think my options are either to wait and see if the Space Owner really is going to park there (no car yet!) and if not, see if he fancies doing things the ParkatmyHouse.com way or, to get a resident’s parking permit. Two guesses which my preferred option is!

I saw an eye-opening display of parking rage this morning. It happened outside a school I pass on my way to work. It was quite clear who was in the wrong but that didn’t stop World War Three breaking out between the two drivers – a beleaguered-looking businessman and a flustered mum who had clearly struggled to get everyone out of the house on time.

Both parents wanted to drop their young children off at school. And needless to say, there was only one parking space up for grabs. The mum got there first and moved beyond the space, put her indicator on and geared up to reverse in. Then along came dad and headed into the spot front-first in order to stake his claim.

A rather public shouting match ensued. Both parties got so heated up that they didn’t care they were blocking the road. The cars stacked up and gradually each driver got out their car to see what was going on. One by one they approached the feuding pair and asked them to put their differences aside so everyone could get on with their journeys.

It was a good ten minutes before the mum and dad went their separate ways. Neither driver used the parking space after all that because someone else stepped in and offered to escort the children to school in order to defuse the situation.

I must have seen incidents of parking rage before I got stuck into ParkatmyHouse.com but I didn’t take them on board. Now of course I’m really conscious of parking rage and it’s surprising how often it manifests itself, even in small ways like honking.

We were on BBC Radio London this morning. Ant did this one. He said his piece and then the DJ invited listeners to call in and discuss the topic of renting out driveways as parking spaces. There was a great reaction – people loved the idea and one old gentleman rang up to advertise his space there and then.

Both of us - especially Ant - are getting strangely accustomed to being on the radio. My adrenalin still kicks in in a big way before every interview though.

I’ve been pondering driveways and how underrated they are today. I never thought I’d see the day when I said that.

My thoughts went something like this; driveways have never ranked highly as objects of our affections. To most of us, they are simply the spaces outside our front door where we park our cars and leave our wheelie bins. True, they come in all sorts of sizes and guises – tarmac and cobblestone, paved and raised to name a few variations – and are adorned with various weeds, oil stains and manholes. But there’s no getting away from the fact that a driveway is, well, a driveway.

In fact, such is the extent to which some of us dislike our private patches of concrete – especially those of us who don’t drive – that we turn them into conservatories and front gardens and build extensions to our houses on them. Empty driveways are a waste of space and aesthetically displeasing ones at that.

Or are they? Could it be that driveways have more to offer than we give them credit for and do they therefore deserve a bit more appreciation and respect than we have traditionally bestowed upon them?

Yes according to me now that ParkatmyHouse.com is on the scene! Admittedly I’m a little bit biased but you only have to read our benefits blurb (See about us) to know there’s a jolly lot more to driveways than meets the eye.

On another note entirely and before I get completely carried away and start talking Golden Age of driveways, a university student rang today and asked if he could interview us because he’s basing his 15,000 word dissertation on renting out driveways…

I was on BBC Radio Cambridge this morning.  I knew they were going to call my mobile at 7:30am to speak to me so I set my alarm clock in time to be up and ready for the call.  It didn’t go off.  The first I knew of things was when my phone rang, at 7:30 on the dot.

I picked up the phone, suddenly very alert.  The lady I’d arranged the interview with told me I’d be live on air in 2 minutes.  All fine except I couldn’t get the first-thing-in-the-morning croak out of my voice! I’m sure all the listeners could tell I’d just woken up.  On top of that, the DJ asked me all the technical questions about tax, insurance etc and I wish I could say I answered them articulately.

I’d say that one ranked quite high on the list of bad radio interviews!