Jane and I drove down to near London today and, on the way down, we stopped at Toddington services, just north of Luton on the M1. The conveniences were convenient and clean so good marks for that but I’m afraid it is the pot holes that stuck in my mind. Fortunately it wasn’t too busy on a Saturday morning so we could see them coming and drive round but some of them were massive. Describing them as big enough to drive into is a touch of hyperbole but not by much. Some certainly looked large enough to drop a tyre into so if you hit them wrong you end up with some substantial and possibly journey-ending damage.

I hope they get them sorted out soon. The management must be aware and, as an organisation that exists to look after motorway drivers, they should be ashamed for letting them get so bad. Meanwhile, for us, it was a good reminder not to take lightly patches of road where water obscures the surface – you have no idea what is (or, with pot holes, what isn’t) underneath!