Today's (2nd May 2026) to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Refill bottle with squash
• Run daily virus scan
• 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
• Add more books to my TBR pile
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music/the radio
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of Weetabix, soya milk and juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Charge up Inspire
• Arrange time to give away Wok, tubs and toffees
• Have caffeinated coffee
• Wash and dry towels
• Air towels
• Put towels away
• Buy brother's birthday gift
• Get Steve's bank statements for all of 2022
• Contact bank about Steve's statements for last year of his life
• Keep an eye on emails about the digital switchover
• Request quotes for plug fix on Check A Trade - a plumber has asked for photo's so I've asked if they want the video instead - I sent him the video this morning - he's away for a week but is gonna let me know when he's back then he'll come and do it for me - today's the day! - he was ill so we are gonna reschedule it when he's feeling better - he's coming between 9am and 10am today - he didn't come after all, so I'll give him one last chance before I give up and readvertise the job again
• Find out about most secure locks from insurers - I've emailed so just waiting for their reply now - they don't advise apparently so I've just gotta do my own research - it's gonna be a BS3621 5-lever mortice deadlock
• Request quotes for 2 new outside doors on Check A Trade (front door MUST be wood and have a letter box with a BS3621 5-lever mortice deadlock)
• Keep checking to see if anyone wants the carrots - the listing expired so I asked a horse-lover that I know instead
• Ask M to bring box of stuff to Freegle downstairs so that I can...
• Take photos of unwanted things in the spare room
• Advertise spare room things on Freegle
• Do morning laps
• Do 75 morning sit-ups
• Do 35 morning crunches
• Housework - Monday - change bedding & bring in rubbish/recycling
• Housework - Tuesday - tidy living room & groceries
• Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom
• Housework - Thursday - sweep carpets/meet up with C
• Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms/get bathroom plug replaced 9-10am
• Housework - Saturday - clean kitchen
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Put menu up on blog every weekend
• 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 anything
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion or kitchen things
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of butternut squash, mushrooms, mixed veg & sweet potato
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Refill dosette box every Sunday
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall
• Do crunches in hall
• Put OddBox container in front of the door on Sunday
• Wait for service certificate for ASHP
• Email service certificate to home insurers
• 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
• As well as choccie raisins too
• 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 (2nd May 2026) breakfast photos

I officially kicked off the warm weather season this morning, so I'm predicting there will be a snow storm in a couple of hours lol

Today's breakfasts started off with my usual 500ml glass of water so that I could pop all of my morning pills, then my second breakfast was a total shock to my poor belly - it was expecting toast and I gave it chocolate Weetabix with soya milk and blueberries, washed down with a 250ml bottle of Tropical juice lol  I haven't had that for months so my body is rapidly scrabbling through the archives for notes on how to process it lol  I'm feeling fuller than I did with the toast though, so hopefully I won't snack this morning.  It's also got the vitamin that caused my neurological disability in so I'm hoping I'll start to feel more human as my body tops up the supply of that too.

Here's today's two breakfast photos:

Goooood morning all!

I struggled to get to sleep again last night and, as always, was wide awake as soon as my head hit the pillow.

I've woken up this morning to interest in the Wok, plastic tubs and toffees, so that's a positive.

It's officially warm weather breakfasts now and I wish I'd put the soya milk into the fridge overnight lol  It's now opened so in the fridge now though and my belly is kinda having to learn to process it very quickly 'cos I put 20 blueberries on top of the choccie Weetabix too lol

My 10 morning pills have been popped and my Inspire is getting some urgent juice, so I'll do my last set of laps and exercises when that's back to being fully charged again.

Gotta remember to put my rubbish and recycling out tomorrow, along with the OddBox tub so that I can bring in my first fruit and veg box on Monday morning.

The daily virus scan was still clear but the tune-up programme has just popped up, so hold on while I see what that wants... OK, that's two of the three things sorted and I need to close my browsers for the other thing, so I'll do that now and I'll hopefully be back with my first warm weather breakfast photo.

BBIAB

Nite nite orl

I used the product test for the first time at about 4.30pm and I'm dead on my feet now, so I'm really hoping I'll be asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow tonight.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

First 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
• Refill bottle with squash
• Run daily virus scan
• 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
• Add more books to my TBR pile
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music/the radio
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/water (day 6 and last of the bread)
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Have caffeinated coffee
• Bring in delivery this morning
• Wash and dry towels
• Air towels
• Put towels away
• Buy brother's birthday gift
• Contact bank about Steve's statements for last year of his life
• Keep an eye on emails about the digital switchover
• Request quotes for plug fix on Check A Trade - a plumber has asked for photo's so I've asked if they want the video instead - I sent him the video this morning - he's away for a week but is gonna let me know when he's back then he'll come and do it for me - today's the day! - he was ill so we are gonna reschedule it when he's feeling better - he's coming between 9am and 10am today - he didn't come after all, so I'll give him one last chance before I give up and readvertise the job again
• Find out about most secure locks from insurers - I've emailed so just waiting for their reply now - they don't advise apparently so I've just gotta do my own research - it's gonna be a BS3621 5-lever mortice deadlock
• Request quotes for 2 new outside doors on Check A Trade (front door MUST be wood and have a letter box with a BS3621 5-lever mortice deadlock)
• Keep checking to see if anyone wants the carrots - the listing expired so I asked a horse-lover that I know instead
• Ask M to bring box of stuff to Freegle downstairs so that I can...
• Take photos of unwanted things in the spare room
• Advertise spare room things on Freegle
• Do morning laps
• Do 75 morning sit-ups
• Do 35 morning crunches
• Housework - Monday - change bedding & bring in rubbish/recycling
• Housework - Tuesday - tidy living room & groceries
• Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom
• Housework - Thursday - sweep carpets/meet up with C
• Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms/get bathroom plug replaced 9-10am
• Housework - Saturday - clean kitchen
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Put menu up on blog every weekend
• 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 anything
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion or kitchen things
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of butternut squash, mushrooms, mixed veg & sweet potato
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Refill dosette box every Sunday
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall
• Do crunches in hall
• Put OddBox container in front of the door on Sunday
• Wait for service certificate for ASHP
• Email service certificate to home insurers
• 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
• As well as choccie raisins too
• 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

That's all the...

...non-food items added to Freecycle and Olio now too so keep your fingers crossed that I get some interest soon!

This weekend will mark...

...the first two warm weather breakfasts and the last two cool weather lunches - not sure how my stomach will react to it but it's only twice a year and hopefully by the end of next week it'll be 'all systems go' for warm weather meals.

I'll still be having creamy hot choccies whenever I want them, but it'll soon be choccie Weetabix (and blueberries??) for breakfast and salads for lunches.  It'll prolly take a few days for my body to adjust again, but hopefully it won't be too bad.

I was wrong this morning, I'm sorry for my mistake

I thought and typed this morning that today would be my Mindful Souls subscription box but I've just checked my account and it's not due until 7th May so today's delivery is a product test that I can't wait to try out and I'll let you all know my thoughts on it as soon as I'm allowed to - I'm hoping it's yummy and me-friendly otherwise I'll be spending forever in the bathroom and potentially bouncing off the wall for hours lol

I'm sorry for my mistake this morning.

Today's (1st May 2026) to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• 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
• Add more books to my TBR pile
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music/the radio
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/water (day 6 and last of the bread)
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Have caffeinated coffee
• Bring in delivery this morning
• Wash and dry towels
• Air towels
• Put towels away
• Buy brother's birthday gift
• Contact bank about Steve's statements for last year of his life
• Keep an eye on emails about the digital switchover
• Request quotes for plug fix on Check A Trade - a plumber has asked for photo's so I've asked if they want the video instead - I sent him the video this morning - he's away for a week but is gonna let me know when he's back then he'll come and do it for me - today's the day! - he was ill so we are gonna reschedule it when he's feeling better - he's coming between 9am and 10am today
• Find out about most secure locks from insurers - I've emailed so just waiting for their reply now - they don't advise apparently so I've just gotta do my own research - it's gonna be a BS3621 5-lever mortice deadlock
• Request quotes for 2 new outside doors on Check A Trade (front door MUST be wood and have a letter box with a BS3621 5-lever mortice deadlock)
• Keep checking to see if anyone wants the carrots - the listing expired so I asked a horse-lover that I know instead
• Ask M to bring box of stuff to Freegle downstairs so that I can...
• Take photos of unwanted things in the spare room
• Advertise spare room things on Freegle
• Do morning laps
• Do 75 morning sit-ups
• Do 35 morning crunches
• Housework - Monday - change bedding & bring in rubbish/recycling
• Housework - Tuesday - tidy living room & groceries
• Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom
• Housework - Thursday - sweep carpets/meet up with C
• Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms/get bathroom plug replaced 9-10am
• Housework - Saturday - clean kitchen
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Put menu up on blog every weekend
• 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 anything
• Advertise blueberries on Olio
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion or blueberries
• Give blueberries away
• Make lunch of butternut squash, mushrooms, mixed veg & sweet potato/fruit
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Refill dosette box every Sunday
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall
• Do crunches in hall
• Put OddBox container in front of the door on Sunday
• Wait for service certificate for ASHP
• Email service certificate to home insurers
• 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
• As well as choccie raisins too
• 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 (1st May 2026) breakfast photo

Today's breakfast was the last two useable slices of 'Toastie' toast, 'Buttery' spread and a 500ml glass of water.  There are officially 12 usable slices in each loaf even though there are actually 14 slices, but I couldn't separate the last two, so there are only 12 useable slices.  Tomorrow morning, it'll be choccie Weetabix and soya milk, potentially with blueberries (if they are still fresh) and a bottle of Tropical juice that won't be freshly-decanted 'cos I did that by mistake this morning!  lol

Here's today's breakfast photo: