Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

I don't know what Martin Lewis says about a way round it but there is a way that has worked for us. If you don't use it often, at about six months into having not used it (other periods are available ) withdraw most of the balance and then pay it back in. That counts as a new deposit (or did when we did it last year) and starts your twelve month period again.

National Highways Agency are thieving whatsits!

 

I think it's capped in England to 4.99% most of that to the County Council. Our local Police Authority is pushing for much more. They have all been getting above inflation rises for the last 20 odd years but still keep cutting services, Libraries, toilets and pools closing, and money wasted on substandard filling potholes that need doing each year.

 

My memory is too bad to remember to do that. I read it's possible to set up a direct debit so you pay as you go. I can't find a way of changing my account so it must be duff information.

If possible we go the other way round the M25 to avoid the toll but sometimes the traffic that way is at a standstill.

 

Re road repairs, especially potholes:- a friend of mine used to be in charge of building roads and has said they don't do the job properly. I can't remember the technical details but they are supposed to cut out around the edges of the hole, surface the edges with some sort of filler (probably a sticky type of tarmac) fill the hole making sure the new tarmac is tamped down properly and then run a seal around the edges. I sometimes see the seal around the edges as a smooth and shiny strip of tarmac.

 

We know how but won't pay for a proper job

 

Yup. Woking is 10%