Nite nite orl

Tomorrow is the start of another hectic week and I'm knackered so I'm taking myself off to beddy-byes.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Fifth and final update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run monthly virus scan
• Bring shoes into the living room
• Give clothes rail to Freegler "after 9am"
• Charge up Inspire
• Charge up Charge 6
• Keep my eye on Freegle to see if backup wants the recorder
• Put spreadsheet onto health site
• Bring in last delivery?
• Put last delivery away?
• Come up with a tag line for my memoir - I've potentially come up with one at last
• Study at least one course
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/bananas and water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol - Thursday 5th March at some point between 8am and 6pm but they'll call an hour before, so I've definitely gotta get washed and changed that day lol
• Give small fingered recorder to backup Freegler?
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler this morning after 9am
• Advertise fruit bowl on Freegle - someone expressed an interest within minutes of me advertising it! lol - someone different is picking it up on Monday
• Advertise rolling clothes rail on Amazon
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• Send reviewers my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants the radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Buy hearing aids
• Buy Steve's friend's book
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And dried fruit and nuts in the tubs
• Study my courses (starting at the bottom of the page)
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of BP photos onto my health site
• Put blood pressure spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Book Review: "Fragments of a Decent Man" by Christopher Parent

Kindle Unlimited     Paperback

⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5

Each book I read and review stars off with the full five stars but I'm never afraid to remove them and always give my reason(s) within the review.  The usual reason for me heartbreakingly removing a star from an otherwise five star book is because of copyright or trademark infringement.  There is a magic little sentence that has appeared in two books so far where the lost star is replaced thanks to a magic little sentence either at the start or end of the book and I'd love to see that happen each time I feel I have to remove a star.

At the time of starting to read this book, 11 readers have rated it an average of 4.8 stars so I'm trying to remain hopeful that this'll be a great book, deserving of the full load.

Let's get reading and reviewing shall we?

Apparently, at my reading speed, this book will be finished in 4 hours and 6 minutes, so it could potentially be a late night tonight if I can't stop reading or an early start tomorrow morning.

The first chapter was a bit boring, so I hope that doesn't set the tone for the rest of the book 'cos I've already skipped ahead.  If chapter 2 is no better then the first star is coming off through boredom... I hope this won't be my second DNF in 2 days!

Oh boy.  I didn't even finish reading the first page of chapter two before I skipped to the end of the chapter from the absolute boring dullness of it.  The first star is coming off at page 36 unfortunately.

I hope the third chapter is more interesting but I've already skipped most of the first two chapters, so it's not looking good unfortunately.

Chapter three is about sport which is an incredibly boring subject for me, so I'm skipping ahead for the third time in as many chapters.

Chapter four seems to be about running, which is sport, so I'm officially giving up and declaring this my second DNF in as many days unfortunately.   I'm sure that, for the right audience, this would be a good book, I'm just not enjoying it at all unfortunately.

Maybe that's why this book got such a high rating?  The previous eleven readers quickly gave up reading it too but didn't want to disappoint the author if it got better in later chapters?

It's a 4 star book that I DNF.

I'm potentially only gonna...

...be able to eat lunch and tea on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday next week with potentially only drinks tomorrow, Monday, Thursday and Friday.    Next Sunday is potentially the only day that I'll be able to eat all three meals, so if I need to lose weight then next week is gonna be easy to achieve it, especially if my weight means that I can exercise too.  It's gonna be a very hungry week and my bottom won't like having such a small amount of solids either, so I hope the diarrhoea and rehydration meds I've got actually work lol

Fourth update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run monthly virus scan
• Bring shoes into the living room
• Give clothes rail to Freegler "after 9am"
• Charge up Inspire
• Charge up Charge 6
• Keep my eye on Freegle to see if backup wants the recorder
• Put spreadsheet onto health site
• Bring in last delivery?
• Put last delivery away?
• Come up with a tag line for my memoir - I've potentially come up with one at last
• Study at least one course
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/bananas and water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol - Thursday 5th March at some point between 8am and 6pm but they'll call an hour before, so I've definitely gotta get washed and changed that day lol
• Give small fingered recorder to backup Freegler?
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler this morning after 9am
• Advertise fruit bowl on Freegle - someone expressed an interest within minutes of me advertising it! lol - someone different is picking it up on Monday
• Advertise rolling clothes rail on Amazon
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• Send reviewers my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants the radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Buy hearing aids
• Buy Steve's friend's book
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And dried fruit and nuts in the tubs
• Study my courses (starting at the bottom of the page)
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of BP photos onto my health site
• Put blood pressure spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Today's (28th February 2026) lunch photo

Today's lunch was the same as yesterday's - 4 Veggie Fingers, 3 battered onion rings, approx 10g of Vegan Mayo all washed down with a 330ml can of Sparkling Passion[fruit] pop.

Here's today's lunch photo:

Third update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run monthly virus scan
• Bring shoes into the living room
• Give clothes rail to Freegler "after 9am"
• Charge up Inspire
• Charge up Charge 6
• Keep my eye on Freegle to see if backup wants the recorder
• Put spreadsheet onto health site
• Bring in last delivery?
• Put last delivery away?
• Come up with a tag line for my memoir - I've potentially come up with one at last
• Study at least one course
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/bananas and water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol - Thursday 5th March at some point between 8am and 6pm but they'll call an hour before, so I've definitely gotta get washed and changed that day lol
• Give small fingered recorder to backup Freegler?
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler this morning after 9am
• Advertise fruit bowl on Freegle - someone expressed an interest within minutes of me advertising it! lol
• Advertise rolling clothes rail on Amazon
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• Send reviewers my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants the radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Buy hearing aids
• Buy Steve's friend's book
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And dried fruit and nuts in the tubs
• Study my courses (starting at the bottom of the page)
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of BP photos onto my health site
• Put blood pressure spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Updated busy-ness week list

Tomorrow (Saturday) - giving 2 Freeglers their things - still waiting to hear from the second Freegler and the monthly virus scan as well as potentially bringing in the delivery and putting my blood pressure spreadsheet on my health site too!

Sunday - bring eBay delivery?, bring in Amazon deliveries, refill dosette box, take rubbish and recycling outside

Monday - bring eBay delivery?, bring in Amazon delivery

Tuesday - groceries

Wednesday - weekly virus scan and backups

Thursday - glasses frames choice between 8am and 6pm

Friday - giving final Freegler their things

Saturday - bath

Sunday - collapse into an exhausted heap, refill dosette box, take rubbish and recycling outside

Second update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run monthly virus scan
• Bring shoes into the living room
• Give clothes rail to Freegler "after 9am"
• Charge up Inspire
• Charge up Charge 6
• Keep my eye on Freegle to see if backup wants the recorder
• Put spreadsheet onto health site
• Bring in last delivery?
• Put last delivery away?
• Come up with a tag line for my memoir - I've potentially come up with one at last
• Study at least one course
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/bananas and water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol - Thursday 5th March at some point between 8am and 6pm but they'll call an hour before, so I've definitely gotta get washed and changed that day lol
• Give small fingered recorder to backup Freegler?
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler this morning after 9am
• Advertise fruit bowl on Freegle - someone expressed an interest within minutes of me advertising it! lol
• Advertise rolling clothes rail on Amazon
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• Send reviewers my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants the radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And dried fruit and nuts in the tubs
• Study my courses (starting at the bottom of the page)
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of BP photos onto my health site
• Put blood pressure spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

For the first time in...

...about 3 years, I've just vacuumed the entire hall and the carpet didn't know what hit it lol

I've just given away the clothes rail and the entire hall was empty so it seemed like a good opportunity to give it a much-needed clean.

The hall carpet is dark beige instead of almost brown now lol