Forgot to log this yesterday, but it was another on-off rainy day. Went for my walk in a period where the rain was easing and it was fine, but it started to rain on the way back home, so got a little wet.
Also got called by the hire car company from my accident last year (just over a year ago now) -- the insurance company on the other side are still resisting paying the hire car charges and now its going to legal action. So potentially I might end up in court.
But since the accident is a no-fault accident from my side (my car was stationary and parked, and the other driver was arrested for drink driving), I should not be getting any costs coming my way.
Had my MOT done today. Took surprisingly low amount of time -- I dropped the car off at 10:30 for the 11:00 appointment and they called me back at 2pm saying it was done.
They had a check-in process where you sign in, and deposit the car keys (with a tag saying which bay you had parked the car) into a small locker and that signals the mechanic you have left your keys. It's contactless so you are never near another human.
My daily walk as a result, was much later than normal.
Was another wet and windy day, didn't really do much of a walk, and just managed to walk to the local Co-op to get some milk in the pouring rain.
Toyota later called me advising my MOT on the Yaris was due next month and I should book in the MOT.
Did that today and surprised that they offer a "While you wait" MOT that you can drop the car off and wait for them to do the MOT and then pick it up afterwards.
Next available slot for that is in two weeks. Still in good time for the 9th June deadline where the MOT expires.
Today's been raining, windy, sunny, rainy again and repeat all day.
Managed to get a walk in between the rain and wind phases
Finished reinstalling my apps and had a few issues with location. Waze and Google Maps had trouble locking onto GPS and found out that even though the option to allow location "only while app is running" was available, I needed to set the permission to "at any time" otherwise they would lock on.
Citymapper had no issue
Just Eat still has issues and does not have a "at any" level for location permission, so I just use the postcode for that.
Most of the apps are now working. A few will not install from Play Store, presumably they're not built to support Android 11 yet:
WeChat
Fenix 2
For Fenix, I went back to Plume (I had previously paid for the Premium version and that works fine). I installed GBoard so I can put gifs into my tweets again (one feature I really liked from Fenix)
WeChat, I ended up sideloading from apkmirror and it worked fine.
Decided to finally action the upgrade notification on my phone and Lineage OS wanted to update from Android 10 to Android 11.
The upgrade went off without too many issues, but I then found out Open Gapps had no package fro Android 11, meaning I had to resort to MindTheGapps -- a minimal package that only allows Google Apps to work, but doesn't actually install any. Consequently the Google Apps I had installed via OpenGapps decided to stop working as a result. I had to uninstall and reinstall everything from Google -- Search, Notes, YouTube, Maps, Home, etc.
But fortunately everything else seemed to work. Camera MX decided to stop working, so I've gone back to CameraZoom
There seems to be a nice feature in Android 11 where if an app does not use a claimed permission after a period of time, Android will automatically remove that permission. Useful for applications which claim more permissions than they really need.
I also went round the torched fence and managed to get a pic of the new fence
Didn't log this yesterday, but did my usual walk, pretty warm day and most of the pubs are now open, though my local one isn't still. And I'm beginning to wonder whether it ever will.
Meanwhile, I finally got round to going to Costco and sorting out my physical membership card.
Did my walk and today was mostly me lying in bed trying to move without my body feeling like absolute s**t. Aches were difficult to deal with in the morning, headache slowly subsiding and the fresh air help clear my head a bit more.
Moderately cold today, but comfortable to walk in. Did some shopping for more dairy milk on the way home.
Also, I finally got the notification for my covid jab, and I managed to book in for tomorrow and the second jab in July.
In other news, my Curve card had some fraudulent transactions against it which I have been talking to them about today. The transaction is now reversed, and also on Monzo (on which the transaction went to), so we are now even, but to be safe, I blocked and have requested new cards for both.
Colder today than yesterday, so had my hands in my pockets most of the way, but when I walked in the sun, it felt good.
Walked past the house whose fence caught fire recently and they've now put up a new fence. The charred remains of the tress that got burnt have been trimmed down to the trunk roots.
Today was cooler than yesterday, still okay to walk with running jacket. Did some shopping for dairy milk while doing my walk and headed back afterwards.
Another nice warm day, but roadworks are bloody EVERYWHERE. The past week it has been roadworks up the road from me, and then this weekend are more road works, jamming up my local shops.
Yesterday was a nice hot day, but my hay fever came on with a vengeance, and I mean vengeance -- my eyes were streaming, my nose would not stop running and I was sneezing almost the entire day, well into the evening. I spent a large part of the day with tissues jammed up my nose in an attempt of relief.
Surprisingly, going out for a walk actually felt better and not much sneezing then.
Today, the weather was hot again, so my dad and I decided to vac out the car, then I did my walk.
Things have started changing now. Pubs have reopened (although you can only eat outside), barbers are now open again, and some cafes and shops have decided to reopen.
Walking today seemed like life has started to return to the area.
Been lacking a few days of logging, but here's a rough update.
Temperature has dropped back down to woolly hat and gloves weather and been checking that torched fence a few times. Saw a few alcohol bottle fragments in the hedge. Don't know if they were there before the fire, so arson is a possibility, which would make sense sense a hedge doesn't just suddenly catch fire...
Did two sets of walking today. Yesterday afternoon, there was a large cloud of smoke nearby and I figured something was on fire. It was too much smoke for a BBQ and too much for a bonfire. My parents who were out walking after me, said they saw something but couldn't get near as everyone was being turned away from a house, presumably where the problem was.
This morning, as I went to shopping, I stopped past where they told me the fire was, but couldn't find any torched houses.
When I came back after shopping and light was better, I decided to walk the area to try to find it. After 45 minutes walk, I still couldn't find any torched houses.
My dad went out walking after me, and did find it. Turns out the house wasn't the one that caught fire, but the hedge outside it.
Looks like someone must have tossed a lit cigarette into the hedge and it went up in flames. The fence inside the hedge also caught light, but luckily it didn't spread too far. It was contained enough that I totally missed it even walking past it.
Cooler day in contrast to the other day, but hay fever seems to be back with a vengeance and I'v been having itchy eyes, sneezing and runny nose all day...
Today was super hot, touching 24degC, no real need for any coats, hats or gloves, but I had to do shopping for milk and needed a pocket for my facemask, so wore my running jacket. Even without zipping out, the walk to the Sainsbury's and back, stopping at the Co-op for the shopping was pretty sweltering.
Temperature touched 20degC today so makes a change. Lockdown is slightly eased today so more people back on the streets, some shops are back open again and unsurprisingly, social distancing is still not being followed.
