With Monzo you can create virtual cards that have an expiry date of your choosing, or you can just cancel it any time.
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They sent me a letter to activate my second year. I logged on to do it and thats when I learned of the bank details etc. They say they notify you, but I bet its well before the renewal date, just to give you pleanty of time to forget. Or from a funny email address that goes to your spam folder. Thats the whole point. Why don’t they just give you the second year. Of course they’re trying to con you out of money.
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I bet it was added on the price of the bike 
nothings free!
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I did do mine - but didn’t like handing over the bank details because I have to remember to cancel it now. Did debate it though. That said I am pretty sure my card changed after I did it…
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I agree it’s a poor way to do business. It isn’t just their breakdown cover though. On 8th Feb I received an email inviting me to extend my two year warranty (for a fee of course) for a further 12 or 24 months, but I had to do it before the bike was 18 months old.
I collected my bike on 9th August 2021, so my bike turned 18 months old on 9th Feb 2023 - the day after I received the email!
Unacceptable high pressure sales technique in my view. If I had been given more notice I might have thought about it, but thought f*ck em, I’m not going to extend it on that basis. The email was the first indication that if you wanted to extend the warranty you had to do it before 18 months.
British Volt went into administration a few weeks back as I previously posted and was bought by an Australian company called Regeneration. Turns out Regeneration are owned by an American (new york) investment group. They are not going to be going into EV batteries but storage batteries for domestic and commercial systems and have technology transfer with the American defence establishment, yes everything really is for sale.
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Dog sh1t in plastic bags🤬
Cycled into work today and on a popular cycle/walk way there must have been about a dozen colourful bags strewn along a 100m stretch! Just put it in a fecken bin:face_with_symbols_over_mouth:
And I love dogs😍
We pick up after our wee mutt 
but take it home and put it in our bin. As it’s supposed to be.
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It would be better to leave it laying than to bag it then leave it… just shows the mentality of some people.
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Cats are much less bother. I’ve no idea where ours do their business, but they bury it and I’ve never seen any evidence. 
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A few free - roaming local cats use our raised veg beds as their toilet (even did it when Rudi was alive, they were obviously risk - takers ); I really like cats, but clearing up stinking cat shit on a daily basis in the nicer weather is not my favourite thing to do.
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How did you get on with this boiled egg thing?
Slight issue with picking up our wee dog’s business - not much fun when the breeze is blowing the wrong way… 
Yes, if there are other houses and cats in the vicinity, I expect it’s a problem. Bare cultivated soil must be a temptation for them. However, we have no neighbours, and just woods and fields round about. I suspect our two bury theirs in the dead leaves in the wood.
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Same growing up when we always had cats - no houses at all in the vicinity to cause any issues to!
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What is this cat burying shit thing? Can yours educate the buggers around here that just do it on our lawn, uncovered? Not nice when I tread in it, and I do seem to quite regularly.
We use chicken type wire/mesh over the newly dug ground/pots to stop them. Of course they just go elsewhere, but at least they aren’t digging up the new plants…
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Ours were obviously well brought up by their mother. 
How did we get on to this subject anyway? I’m about to have my dinner…
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I can answer that…they’ll be shitting in your neighbours garden 
well they would if you had any. Sadly there’s loads of cats by us, so as you might guess I’m not a fan
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Cats in the garden? I don’t have that particular problem but I am starting to get fed up of hearing that old euphemism ‘just taking the dog out for a walk’ when what my neighbour really means is I’m going out with the dog to let it crap in someone else’s garden so I don’t have to clear its shite up from ours.
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