I'm not the first person in the world to dislike things getting in my way and I have been particularly hacked off recently by people blocking pavements.

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First, there's the bin bags lumped together and left on the pavement, presumably by the waste disposal operatives. (Heaven forbid, I use the word dustmen!) Now, sometimes, it's only a short while later that the refuse wagon collects the bin bags. Other times, they're still blocking part of the pavement hours later!

Then there's the workmen and delivery men who park across pavements while they load or unload their vans or wait to get access to a building site. Meanwhile, pedestrians, particularly those with pushchairs or wheelchairs are forced into the road or to cross the street to get past them.

But it isn't just them. It is also the general car users who park on the pavement, or across double yellow lines and the dips in the kerb. Have they any idea how much harder it is to push a child in a pushchair, or a wheelchair, up a full height kerb?

Of course, there are a few things in life that I wouldn't mind being blocked - my sons' farts, for example! But - newsflash - pavements are designed for pedestrians, not bin bags, vans or parked cars!