Another miserably rainy day.

Finalised my main Car Insurance. Costing me £450 for the year.

The car deposit is now on my card. I'd better start looking at paying it off soon....

EDIT: It did stop raining for a bit after dinner, so managed to get my walk done at least.

Wet and raining day. No running or walking today.

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

Slightly sunnier day today, so went for a nice walk. Actually felt hotter than expected.

Short lap around the area again today. Cloudy, but no rain.

Well, forgot to log my walk yesterday. Was a short one due it starting to rain, but tried again, later and managed to get a nice lap around the area.

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....

Cooler day, but has been raining on and off all day, so instead of my walk, I did my FitBit workout -- and struggled with several of the exercises.

Finished it, and was about to go out to walk, and it started raining again....

EDIT: It stopped after a while and I went ahead and did my walk.

Another cooler day. No rain, but still cloudy. Though when I started my short walk, it decided to start to rain half way round.

An early start to the day to deploy some stuff into production. A few hiccups but it settled

A cloudy, and much cooler day today.

Did a short walk, and got caught in the rain. Wasn't heavy, but annoying.

1 hour walk today, in 25degC heat, including some shopping at the Co-Op (which luckily had no queue outside).

Chased up Toyota as they hadn't called me, and they finally called me in the afternoon. They confirmed I had passed credit checks so the backup car was reserved for me.

However, the first choice car was still reserved for the other buyer and they were still waiting to find out if they passed checks on another finance company (Black Horse).

So it seems that the finance is primarily with Toyota Finance and the secondary finance company is Black Horse (which, ironically, is who I had my finance with when I had my Skoda.) According to my Toyota sales person, Black Horse is a higher interest finance company.

Did my FitBit workout today, using my Chromecast Ultra. My Sky Broadband router seems very tetchy today and twice dropped my WiFi connection while my phone was casting to my TV, meaning I had to reconnect and recast both times.

And went ahead and did my 1 hour walk.

Longer walk today, and somehow managed to trip 5km distance, but looking at the GPS, looks like it messed up and didn't track properly, showing me literally flying over houses....

Pollen count seems to be high today, got back and my eyes started itching.

Didn't do the workout -- my walk was later than expected due to us watching over a neighbour's son while they move their things into several van loads (they were moving out, but only a few minutes up the road)

Another nice day. Did the longer walk, but tried a different route. Seems a bit shorter than my usual one, so probably will keep the old route

Another nice hot day. And a nice walk in the sun. It is starting to look like I might be picking up a bit of a tan from my walking in the sun....

Did my FitBit workout before my walk, next workout is Back & Core.

Another nice sunny hot day. A breeze made it a bit more tolerable.

Another nice and hot, sunny day. Short walk, lots of pollen and moderately sweaty as a result.

Day 61 of quarantine. A cloudy day, but still pretty warm. Short loop walk today.

Each day is beginning to melt into each other. So this is what prison feels like....

Day 60 of quarantine. Finally got an opportunity to test my new Chromecast Ultra with my FitBit coach in my living room. There was more room here to do the workout versus my bedroom and shed plenty more sweat than I normally do doing the workout in my bedroom.

Weather is still plenty windy and the temperature is much lower than the past couple of days...

Trying to decide whether to do my walk later....

EDIT: I did.

Nearing day 60 in quarantine. Today was a very window, cloudy start to the day. My bedroom door in fact slammed closed at 3am in the morning from the gust of wind that came through the open window.

My final car cheque FINALLY came through. Guess this now means I have to give up the car within 7 days. Which is a bugger because now I'll have to get the bus to the car showroom in June.

Regards to training, I did my walk and am currently contemplating whether to do my FitBit workout today or tomorrow....

Update on my car. They say the final cheque is in the post, and now they will be contacting me to arrange to pick up the car.

But I haven't been able to buy a new car because all the showrooms were locked down. I asked them to reconsider.

Meanwhile, another hot day so I did the walk and not the workout, also probably not a good idea to do a workout so soon after eating lots of pizza ^_^

Did my FitBit workout today. Trying to workout in 25degC heat isn't fun, but I did it with my windows open and a fan blowing in my face.

And, I did my walk to boot. Again the shorter walk due to being on call. My pace was notably slower than usual during the walk due to the heat. But as a result, wasn't sweating as much as I was expecting. Still was, though ^_^

Same as yesterday, a scorcher of a day, so a quick walk in case I got an incident call.

Scorcher of a day today and I start my week of on call :(

Did my short walk and felt like I'd been walking for an hour because of the heat....

Same as yesterday, didn't want to risk being too sweaty without having access to a shower.

We got someone in the check the drains, we even got a rod thingy to help unblock it. Turns out part of the steel pipe in the house was rusted and some of the outbound water was getting blocked by the rust.

Walk but no Fitbit workout -- my shower drains have blocked up so I'm avoiding making myself sweat too much as I'm unable to clean myself properly until I can get that drain unblocked.