Is there any way that the database can be re written to fix these problems?


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Maybe. That would mean the boys in Houston making changes. Such a minor thing will be way down a long list of bug fixes. You should have seen the state of it two years ago when version one was released.

For the woman who used to live across the road, "touch parking" was a way of life. However, she had sh1tty throttle control - it was like watching life-sized pinball. I was so happy when I heard they were moving, but the new neighbour is no better.

I should point out I never did "touch parking" at anything over a dead slow crawl. In fact, I got so used to the length of the Carltons I could reverse into a space on the mirrors only, in one move. That surprised many men who seemed to have much difficulty parking their own smaller cars.

Throttle control seems impossible to achieve for some people. It's painful to watch. Engine revved to about 3000-4000rpm and slipping the clutch - just to move out of a parking space on a slight incline.

When I had to parallel park on the busy road outside my digs, I got very used to it. Although it took about 5 moves, my tightest had barely an inch between bumpers. I could judge the space that well because I'd parked the same car on the same street literally thousands of times.

Years later with a driveway, a different car and only have to plll park every two years, I was a lot happier with at least a couple of feet to spare...

You could have used = park.

After over 20 year parking without aids, I find it disconcerting parking with the camera in my new car. I tried a Prius, which showed the camera on the central console screen. I was reversing into the spot and just slammed on the brakes, thinking, "this is bloody silly!" I looked in the side mirrors and I was about 1cm from driving into the car next to me, which didn't even show up in the camera. The problem is, it says, that you should not rely on the camera view, but the camera view is in a stupid location, you can't look out the sides, in the mirrors or out the back window and still use the camera view!

The Verso has a camera as well, but the display is a small LCD hidden in a corner of the rear view mirror, so it fits in with the normal reversing procedure, although I often hit the button to switch it off.

What is the point of having a train company e-mail you when tickets become available for a certain date if they don't do it until after the cheapest tickets have all been sold?
Aside from pure greed of course.

Was booking tickets from Peterborough to Glasgow. The cheapest single fare is just over £16 single. Bargain.
I'm beginning to suspect that there are about 2 of these per train. The next ones up are about £25. I grant you that's still pretty cheap for a journey of over 300 miles but when there's more than one person travelling that jump in price rapidly erodes the cheapness of the train compared with taking the car (which is vastly more flexible into the bargain).

Tickets must become available at 9am but they don't send out the e-mail's until after 11am and on this occasion I couldn't sit on the website to wait for the tickets to come up.

I found a great iOS app called myTrains Pro (£2.99) which finds some great deals. Though I put Peterborough and Glasgow in and found the cheapest single was £27.50 for an advance ticket. Though it does depend on the date.

Some useful travel sites
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/ this is great use advanced option and teh maps

http://splitticket.moneysavingexpert.com/ Strange things you can do with tickets

http://www.transportdirect.info/Web2/Home.aspx?repeatingloop=Y looks strange but a very very handy travel site.

Lol I had a similar issue with Virgin cross-country. I had a young person's railcard and 7-day advance ticket cost £16 and a 14-day advance ticket was £13. For the first two years of uni, this is how I travelled back home every so often. By the third year, you couldn't get hold of them. I once went on a Friday to track some down and they said they'd be released the following day. Went back the following day to find they had all been sold out! Tickets were then £36 for the same return journey.

I assume that sight lists using Didcot Parkway as a split-point if you're going Bath <--> London. I've never actually bothered, but plenty of my friends have done that.

yup but you have got be on a train that actually stops there and many don't

The other won is eve better buy your ticket from castle Carey to London. Its a permitted route via Bath to London large savings I save about £400 per month on my season ticket with that

All this demonstrates is that rail ticket pricing is ridiculously complicated.

Yup