Forgot to log this yesterday. Spent most of the day in the car with my parents, letting my dad drive and get used to the new car.

I drove back after they stopped off for shopping.

The weather was sunny and hot and in the 20s degC so after I got back, I did go and do my daily walk.

A blustery, mixed-weather day today. Lots of cloud and threatened rain, but didn't during my run.

Been raining most of the day. A brief respite after work let me get some walking done.

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.

Charges are waived.

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.

Another warm day, but not too hot. A short walk to get the heart rate up and then back to work.

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.

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.