Mixed weather day, some rain, but now its 20degC. Done my FitBit workout, will be heading out for walk soon.
Got caught in the rain, and had to sprint back -- still that's good exercise.
Someone asked me where the station was -- which was a 30 minute walk unless you get the bus to cut part of the journey time. They chose not to get the bus and continued walking -- in the rain too. And without an umbrella...
A 41-year-old woman has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a 13-year-old girl was knocked down and killed in north London.
Police said the car struck the victim and a 15-year-old girl in Barnet, north London at 9.35pm on Monday.
Scotland Yard confirmed the 15-year-old was uninjured but suffered shock witnessing the collision.
Looking at the location of the flowers, it is near the end of the road, which leads to a miniroundabout. The road, especially at night, is pretty empty and prone to fast drivers (regularly, we hear cars and motorbikes revving late at night), so my suspicion is that someone drove fast down the road, heading towards the miniroundabout, couldn't stop in time and hit the 13-year-old square, and missed the the 15-year old.
Another scorcher of a day. 30+ degC showing in the car, 29 degC showing on my FitBit as of 4pm.
Went up to Sainbury's and there was no queue so went in to get some groceries. It was freezing in there. They'd cranked up the aircon high to compensate for the heat outside.
My FitBit is registering 29degC temperature so far, but it feels so, so much hotter than that. Had to use my Asics cap to keep the sun out of my eyes as I walked and my fan has been on almost the entire day.
Gloomy day, but still hot and muggy with occasional showers.
My hire car finally got picked up, exactly 8 weeks after it was delivered.
Had a moan at Toyota over email -- they confirmed my appointment to get the key reprogrammed, but attempted to sneak a £10 charge in, for "a 40-point surface point clean"
Considering I'm only going back there due to a mistake made by their mechanic and paint damage caused by them, I shouldn't be paying for any of that.
Mixed weather today -- rain and sun. Went and got some walking done.
Toyota contacted me saying they have my spare key (the mechanic apparently lost it after programming it and they needed to order a new one - to the tune of £250 cost).
I'll need my take my car back to let them program the key, and hopefully get the dinks in the paintwork fixed.
The next appointment is next Monday, so I'll head up after my daily meeting.
During my walk, the hire car company finally called asking for their car back, they're coming to collect tomorrow, so I topped up the car to make sure they don't fine me for not having enough fuel.
Weather has turned to sunny today, so a nice longer walk today. Tried a different walk, but turned to be a bit longer distance wise, but not longer time wise.
No walk or workout today. Did the weekly shop this morning as mentioned in my previous post and the temperature has jumped into the twenties today surprisingly.
Another rainy day. Ended up working a bit longer than I expected due to stuff happening that I wanted to fix before the weekend. Overworking seems to be quite a common tendency now, due to the extended working from home situation, even though it's not advisable.
Eventually the rain did stop, so managed to go for my walk around 5pm.
Picked up my new Toyota Yaris Hybrid today. Had to spend about 30 minutes on hold while waiting for verify myself for the 3-day driveaway insurance.
I now need to finalise my own insurance to cover myself from Saturday.
My dad and I drove up to Toyota in the hire car so I could drive back in the new car.
We spotted some chips in the paintwork which we could not resolve while we were due to it raining (any painting we would do would be ruined by the rain). Toyota gave us some paint and lacquer to do it ourselves when the rain stops.
Drove back in the new car. First time I've properly driven an automatic. I previously drove an automatic for a colleague to help her park, so it wasn't a "proper" drive.
My dad also used to have an automatic (VW Touran), but again, didn't drive that "properly"
The brakes on the Yaris were REALLY sensitive. Just a tap brought the car to near stationary. On my old Skoda I had to push the brake pedal to about half way before it started braking.
Car has bluetooth so managed to pair it with my phone. Haven't tested the music playing over bluetooth yet.
Also, Toyota gave me a plushie as thank you for buying a car
Another cloudy and rainy day. I did get to do my walk in between the showers.
Car update -- I've finalised finance with Toyota and we've pencilled in Wednesday for pickup, but that depends on when I need to return my hire car.
Other news -- My neighbours moved out recently and now we've had some people come in to pick up left over stuff and another van dropped off this morning, seemingly to drop of some paints and stuff.
They parked up pretty close to my hire car.
At least they didn't scratch it.
Since different people are coming in and out of that premise, they've mounted a key locker on the front of the building holding the key to the flat, and locked it. Foolishly, they left the key combination visible as I went out to my walk. Then when I came back after my walk, they had reset the dials. Tried the combination I saw, and the lock opened. Cue Mr. Burns clip....
