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I moved a mile or so up the road recently, and I'm amazed at how difficult various organisations find the concept of 'I am moving house and I would like to keep paying you money'. I spent a lunchbreak a few weeks before we moved filling out all the 'I'm moving house' forms on various websites. Results as follows: Octopus / Bristol Water - moved me out of the house fine. The idea that I might need electricity / gas / water / sewage at the new place apparently didn't occur to them. Still, a 10 minute phone call and a new direct debit set up for each and sorted. 6/10. Council tax - OK, bonus points for being the only organisation to work out that I still needed to pay them after I moved, they sent me all the paperwork with a new account number for the new address, the amount I was being charged, instructions for how to set up a new direct debit etc. Unfortunately they decided the sensible thing to do would be to send that to my old address, three weeks after I moved and six weeks after I told them I was moving. 'Its the address we have on file for you' - clearly its not is it, you useless bastards. Still, I paid for a mail redirect and sorted using the council tax payment portal that's run by Capita and took me right back to 2004. 5/10. Virgin Media - the reason I'm posting this here but actually I'm not sure I have the ability to type it out in full without hurling my laptop across the room. No exaggeration, I must have spoken to 20 different people across phone / email / live chat, and I've spent at least a day doing it including one 4.5 hour phone call which ended with the guy going 'I'm really sorry, but I don't really know how to fix it, shall I just cancel your contract?' (I said yes, he didn't). Got to a stage six weeks after we moved where they said they could sort it but they needed to send out new equipment. Now apparently that needs to be signed for in person, they won't leave it with a neighbour or in my bin shed or whatever so I arranged to work from home today. Cue two emails within 15 minutes of each other this morning, one telling me it was being delivered by Yodel and the other by Royal Mail. Neither have a tracking number, neither have turned up. I phoned up (again), apparently the solution is to get an engineer round rather than use a competent courier service. The next available engineer appointment is next week. FUCKYOU/10.

Rental car:

Did a pilgrimage with my kids today

Abandoned brown Proton Perdana to win this page of the thread.

This is mine for the next week: Got an 'upgrade' to a Toyota Innova, 8-seat RWD MPV on a Hilux chassis. I was holding my breath turning in and out of the ramps on the multi storey car park...

Someone round here is running an Ignis with PHV plates.

The Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act 1978 - it doesn't just give them the power to remove abandoned vehicles, it requires them to. By that law, they don't have to give any notice if the car is on the public highway and they can sell or scrap it after seven days, so that council is doing more than they have to.

2MEN and BO55FAG parked next to each other in Sainsburys.

Looks like it's up for sale at ACA this weekend. https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic-auctions/2625-27-Jan-2024/4306~4-1968-ford-zephyr-mk-iv

No pictures because I was driving, but a BMW 760Li with V12 badges on the boot and wings with V12 1S OK as a plate...

Or this: Yeah, it's an LDV Maxus MG V80.

There was an article in the guardian last week about car insurance prices - there was a lady with an Evoque who paid £450 two years ago, £1,300 last year and the best price she can get this year is £2,800.

I went back. 'Oh, hi angle! I recognise you from last time, sorry again about that. The good news is we've got two cars left this time, if you're OK with an auto again there's a Subaru Forester or if you prefer a manual you can have a Vaux...' Reader, I didn't let her finish the sentence.

Mot and a roof (stuck up) and VVC and purple! £625. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/659303606353828/

Alternatively - has an Mot but no roof, £450. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/308902048695466/

One owner from new, needs a clutch (and an Mot), £495. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/7142578939135865/

V6 Avantime with mismatched panels ought to be on here really. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1393348731533587/

£600 Impian with a bit of test. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1706889639808797/

3.2 Elite. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1638011426691319/

Have we had this one yet? https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1442414379947510/

Is it wrong that I want this with a Z20LET in? https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/697533718924766/

I don't know what crimble stains are, but if any car has them on the drivers seat then that Fiesta does.