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I saw a lazy start to the day despite Jasper's attempts to drag us from bed. I read the news for an hour before Di came down for her morning tea. As I started to read the social media, I saw an announcement that the Government was planning to allow digital driving licenses later in the year. In preparation for this, you can now open a DVLA account. I thought this sounded like a good move so I went through the process. It did use what will become a single government account which was verified with the biometric information from my passport. It took a little while to get it all set up, but it now nestles on my various devices.

The next task for the morning was to fix the door handle for the utility cupboard. The relevant bolts had been delivered yesterday and I was eager to give it a go. As usual, it was a bit fiddly. The bolts had to be snipped off to the right length. This proved almost impossible so I resorted to a hacksaw. It was then a matter of feeding the male bolts through the door handle, the door and the opposing door handle into the female nut. It took me ages. Eventually, it was done and the handle is now functioning properly again.

I explained in yesterday's post that I had been having a few anomalies with Google Maps on CarPlay in the Skoda. I fixed it. I quit G-Maps, reset the CarPlay to forget about the Skoda, and restarted the phone. I then went to the car and connected it all up. I clearly got the newer version of CarPlay and everything seemed to work properly. I even have some new apps available. I had a bit of a cleanup, removing those apps I'm unlikely to use. That was it... done!

(During the afternoon, I helped Zoe sort out her SatNav. It was still connected to an old WiFi account and an old phone. That didn't take too long to clear up).

We had some Kindle time before I started on dinner. That was a bit of an issue. I had planned roast chicken, but when I opened the bag it was clear that the chicken was past its best. It was dumped in the bin and we grabbed some pork loin steaks instead.