Thursday, 30 July 2026

Nite nite orl

I've had a very long, very hot, very stressful day today and apparently I've gotta make another appointment about my DVLA renewal, which is totally understandable, but I bet I'll forget tomorrow lol


I've taken my last two pills of the day and I'm heading on up to beddy-byes now.


I'll see you all in the morning.


Nite nite orl


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

  • Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 again today
  • Take FunCap reading on 1st of each month
  • Use new 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/random music/the radio
  • Check forum
  • Announce birthdays if necessary
  • Refill bottle with squash
  • Make breakfast of Weetabix, soya milk and juice/toast/water
  • Take photo of breakfast
  • Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
  • Wash up
  • Put breakfast into NutraCheck
  • Weigh myself every Monday
  • Log weight into NutraCheck
  • Get washed and changed
  • Brush my teeth
  • Keep voicemail active
  • Have caffeinated coffee/peach tea
  • Sort OddBox recipes into breakfast/lunch/tea/pud/snack/drink
  • Open living room window
  • Open kitchen window
  • Open back door
  • Open bathroom window
  • Sort out last of the hidden cupboard
  • Take photos of hidden cupboard things
  • Advertise hidden cupboard things on Freegle
  • Sort out cupboard next to freezer
  • Take photos of freezer cupboard things
  • Advertise freezer cupboard things on Freegle
  • Sort out cupboards under main counter
  • Take photos of main counter cupboard things
  • Advertise main counter cupboard things on Freegle
  • Put new appliances away in the cupboards
  • Buy more storage containers if necessary
  • Indulge in as many creamy drinks as I want
  • Run monthly virus scan on 28th of every month
  • Keep an eye on emails about the digital switchover - someone phoned last night and apparently I'll get a letter through the post with a number to call to arrange the engineer's visit to put in the necessary phone line and connect me to the digital thing, so I've just gotta be patient with that as well as the ASHP service document to send to my insurers now - an engineer is due on Thursday to get it all sorted for me - today's the day and I'm sooo nervous! - done and dusted now!
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Weigh myself every Monday - I'm 950g into the safe zone, which is reassuring
  • Match up Steve's statements against my spreadsheet
  • Do morning laps
  • Do morning sit-ups
  • Do morning crunches
  • Do morning twists
  • Housework - Monday - change bedding & bring in rubbish/recycling
  • Housework - Tuesday - tidy living room & groceries & clear caches
  • Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom
  • Housework - Thursday - sweep carpets
  • Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms
  • Housework - Saturday - clean kitchen/have bath/shower
  • Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
  • Take bedding back upstairs
  • Arrange for emergency plumber to come back out for the other radiator coolant fillings
  • Phone central heating bods to get talked through how to change control panel back to just temperature
  • 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 the chilled packaging or envelopes or tiles or juice bottles or packing material or radiator or cushion - they are coming for their things tomorrow (Friday) at 4.15pm
  • Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the beans/salad leaves
  • Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
  • Keep an eye on CheckATrade to see if anyone is interested in kitchen job - there are a couple of people interested and I've sent photos to the one who requested them and offered the photos to the other person - I've had 1 quote so far, over £1000 just for labour and not including parts, so I don't think I'll be using them.  I've sent the photos to the other interested tradesperson so I'll wait and see what they say - apparently the first tradesperson was just guessing "so that you can get your finances ready for the site visit" so I'm definitely not going with them.
  • Make lunch of protein and veg/ice cream
  • Take photo of lunch
  • Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
  • Do washing up
  • Put lunch into NutraCheck
  • Take lunchtime pill
  • Refill dosette box every Sunday
  • Refill can dispenser
  • Do afternoon laps 
  • Do sit-ups in hall
  • Do crunches in hall
  • Do twists in hall
  • Charge up powerbanks
  • Charge up Visible
  • Charge up personal phone
  • Charge up spam phone
  • Charge up watch
  • Charge up HLTH band
  • Refill bottle with squash
  • Put OddBox container in front of the door on Sunday
  • Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/toast/fruit
  • Take photo of tea
  • Bring tea through to the living room
  • Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
  • Do washing up
  • Put tea into NutraCheck
  • Choccie raisins in the fridge too
  • 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 BP spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
  • Close living room window
  • Close kitchen window
  • Close bathroom window
  • Close back door
  • Clear browser caches every Tuesday
  • Clear browser caches on 27th of every month
  • Do evening Visible check-in
  • Take evening pills
  • Go to bed

Second update to today's to-do list

  • Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 again today
  • Take FunCap reading on 1st of each month
  • Use new 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/random music/the radio
  • Check forum
  • Announce birthdays if necessary
  • Refill bottle with squash
  • Make breakfast of Weetabix, soya milk and juice/toast/water
  • Take photo of breakfast
  • Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
  • Wash up
  • Put breakfast into NutraCheck
  • Weigh myself every Monday
  • Log weight into NutraCheck
  • Get washed and changed
  • Brush my teeth
  • Keep voicemail active
  • Have caffeinated coffee/peach tea
  • Sort OddBox recipes into breakfast/lunch/tea/pud/snack/drink
  • Open living room window
  • Open kitchen window
  • Open back door
  • Open bathroom window
  • Sort out last of the hidden cupboard
  • Take photos of hidden cupboard things
  • Advertise hidden cupboard things on Freegle
  • Sort out cupboard next to freezer
  • Take photos of freezer cupboard things
  • Advertise freezer cupboard things on Freegle
  • Sort out cupboards under main counter
  • Take photos of main counter cupboard things
  • Advertise main counter cupboard things on Freegle
  • Put new appliances away in the cupboards
  • Buy more storage containers if necessary
  • Indulge in as many creamy drinks as I want
  • Run monthly virus scan on 28th of every month
  • Keep an eye on emails about the digital switchover - someone phoned last night and apparently I'll get a letter through the post with a number to call to arrange the engineer's visit to put in the necessary phone line and connect me to the digital thing, so I've just gotta be patient with that as well as the ASHP service document to send to my insurers now - an engineer is due on Thursday to get it all sorted for me - today's the day and I'm sooo nervous! - done and dusted now!
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Weigh myself every Monday - I'm 950g into the safe zone, which is reassuring
  • Match up Steve's statements against my spreadsheet
  • Do morning laps
  • Do morning sit-ups
  • Do morning crunches
  • Do morning twists
  • Housework - Monday - change bedding & bring in rubbish/recycling
  • Housework - Tuesday - tidy living room & groceries & clear caches
  • Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom
  • Housework - Thursday - sweep carpets
  • Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms
  • Housework - Saturday - clean kitchen/have bath/shower
  • Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
  • Take bedding back upstairs
  • Arrange for emergency plumber to come back out for the other radiator coolant fillings
  • Phone central heating bods to get talked through how to change control panel back to just temperature
  • 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 the chilled packaging or envelopes or tiles or juice bottles or packing material or radiator or cushion - they are coming for their things tomorrow (Friday) at 4.15pm
  • Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the beans/salad leaves
  • Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
  • Keep an eye on CheckATrade to see if anyone is interested in kitchen job - there are a couple of people interested and I've sent photos to the one who requested them and offered the photos to the other person - I've had 1 quote so far, over £1000 just for labour and not including parts, so I don't think I'll be using them.  I've sent the photos to the other interested tradesperson so I'll wait and see what they say - apparently the first tradesperson was just guessing "so that you can get your finances ready for the site visit" so I'm definitely not going with them.
  • Make lunch of protein and veg/ice cream
  • Take photo of lunch
  • Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
  • Do washing up
  • Put lunch into NutraCheck
  • Take lunchtime pill
  • Refill dosette box every Sunday
  • Refill can dispenser
  • Do afternoon laps 
  • Do sit-ups in hall
  • Do crunches in hall
  • Do twists in hall
  • Charge up powerbanks
  • Charge up Visible
  • Charge up personal phone
  • Charge up spam phone
  • Charge up watch
  • Charge up HLTH band
  • Refill bottle with squash
  • Put OddBox container in front of the door on Sunday
  • Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/toast/fruit
  • Take photo of tea
  • Bring tea through to the living room
  • Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
  • Do washing up
  • Put tea into NutraCheck
  • Choccie raisins in the fridge too
  • 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 BP spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
  • Close living room window
  • Close kitchen window
  • Close bathroom window
  • Close back door
  • Clear browser caches every Tuesday
  • Clear browser caches on 27th of every month
  • Do evening Visible check-in
  • Take evening pills
  • Go to bed

Today (30th July 2026) I'm grateful for...

...finally being digitally connected on my home phone and getting an emergency phone put in for free.


As if that wasn't enough, I've also successfully cooked my first ever fresh sweet potato for my lunch and it went down like a dream.


I'm also grateful that I've just created a (yet another) new blog to keep all of my recipes together and got my first recipe up already.  They will all be tried and tested by me personally, as opposed to pinched from somewhere online - if I haven't personally made it, then it won't be on there.


I'm also grateful that I did my exercises at sparrow's fart this morning 'cos there's no way I can do them this afternoon.


Today's (30th July 2026) lunch photo

A veeeery late lunch today after waiting impatiently for an engineer to come out and move my home phone over to digital.  That was the first thing I was proud of today, then I decided to try another first with preparing, cooking and eating my very first ever fresh (as opposed to the frozen chunks I've had in the past) sweet potato, cooked in my air fryer.  I was sooo proud of myself for managing the entire 40 minute cook all by myself and not exploding the street or hurting myself!


I've literally just started my next blog so that I can document all the new recipes I try thanks to my weekly OddBox delivery - sweet potatoes this week and aubergines next week as long as they are in stock.


I'm also stocked up on veggie proteins so I've got a stuffed chest freezer and a stuffed freezer section of my fridge-freezer, as well as my weekly OddBoxes and plenty of fruit, so I won't go hungry lol


Here's today's double celebratory lunch photo:


*ahem*

YYYYEEEESSSS!!!!

I realise that this may be nothing to many/most of you but it's a huuuuuuuuge deal for me!

I've just cooked and eaten my very first ever sweet potato totally alone that wasn't pre-prepared or frozen or pre-cooked or made in a restaurant... this literally came out of the ground, into my OddBox, into my air-fryer and into my mouth!

There were a couple of very small areas, no bigger than a 2p coin that could maybe have done with a few seconds more, but any more than that and it would have been overdone, so I'm counting it as a very successful meal!

I rubbed the oil all over it after scrubbing it with my new vegetable scrubbers that came yesterday and that worked perfectly too.

Today has been the best day that I've had for a very long time so I'm not gonna feel guilty for grinning like a loon for the rest of the day now!

Today's the day!!

I'm gonna try, for the first time ever, air-frying a sweet potato.


My limited research is telling me that it's 200c for 35-45 minutes and that I've gotta wash/scrub the potato, pat it dry, poke it with a fork coat it with a thin layer of oil and turn it half way through for even cooking.  I'm gonna use the air-fryer spray as opposed to liquid oil like it says and keep my fingers crossed.  One of the recipes says to use vegan butter on the cut potato but I'm gonna see how dry it is when I've cut it open before I decide.


Wish me luck!!


As of now...

...I've got a digital landline connected up to my broadband and an emergency phone just in case I need to call 999 in a power cut or internet outage.


I think that calls for a celebratory pre-lunch mocha!


I've just...

...heard from the engineer who is doing my switchover so unless something major goes wrong I'll be able to have a proper lunch today after all!


I'm sooooo anxious now though lol


First update to today's to-do list

  • Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 again today
  • Take FunCap reading on 1st of each month
  • Use new 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/random music/the radio
  • Check forum
  • Announce birthdays if necessary
  • Refill bottle with squash
  • Make breakfast of Weetabix, soya milk and juice/toast/water
  • Take photo of breakfast
  • Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
  • Wash up
  • Put breakfast into NutraCheck
  • Weigh myself every Monday
  • Log weight into NutraCheck
  • Get washed and changed
  • Brush my teeth
  • Keep voicemail active
  • Have caffeinated coffee/peach tea
  • Sort OddBox recipes into breakfast/lunch/tea/pud/snack/drink
  • Open living room window
  • Open kitchen window
  • Open back door
  • Open bathroom window
  • Sort out last of the hidden cupboard
  • Take photos of hidden cupboard things
  • Advertise hidden cupboard things on Freegle
  • Sort out cupboard next to freezer
  • Take photos of freezer cupboard things
  • Advertise freezer cupboard things on Freegle
  • Sort out cupboards under main counter
  • Take photos of main counter cupboard things
  • Advertise main counter cupboard things on Freegle
  • Put new appliances away in the cupboards
  • Buy more storage containers if necessary
  • Indulge in as many creamy drinks as I want
  • Run monthly virus scan on 28th of every month
  • Keep an eye on emails about the digital switchover - someone phoned last night and apparently I'll get a letter through the post with a number to call to arrange the engineer's visit to put in the necessary phone line and connect me to the digital thing, so I've just gotta be patient with that as well as the ASHP service document to send to my insurers now - an engineer is due on Thursday to get it all sorted for me - today's the day and I'm sooo nervous!
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Weigh myself every Monday - I'm 950g into the safe zone, which is reassuring
  • Match up Steve's statements against my spreadsheet
  • Do morning laps
  • Do morning sit-ups
  • Do morning crunches
  • Do morning twists
  • Housework - Monday - change bedding & bring in rubbish/recycling
  • Housework - Tuesday - tidy living room & groceries & clear caches
  • Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom
  • Housework - Thursday - sweep carpets
  • Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms
  • Housework - Saturday - clean kitchen/have bath/shower
  • Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
  • Take bedding back upstairs
  • Arrange for emergency plumber to come back out for the other radiator coolant fillings
  • Phone central heating bods to get talked through how to change control panel back to just temperature
  • 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 the chilled packaging or envelopes or tiles or juice bottles or packing material or radiator or cushion - they are coming for their things tomorrow (Friday) at 4.15pm
  • Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the beans/salad leaves
  • Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
  • Keep an eye on CheckATrade to see if anyone is interested in kitchen job - there are a couple of people interested and I've sent photos to the one who requested them and offered the photos to the other person - I've had 1 quote so far, over £1000 just for labour and not including parts, so I don't think I'll be using them.  I've sent the photos to the other interested tradesperson so I'll wait and see what they say - apparently the first tradesperson was just guessing "so that you can get your finances ready for the site visit" so I'm definitely not going with them.
  • Make lunch of protein and veg/ice cream
  • Take photo of lunch
  • Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
  • Do washing up
  • Put lunch into NutraCheck
  • Take lunchtime pill
  • Refill dosette box every Sunday
  • Refill can dispenser
  • Do afternoon laps 
  • Do sit-ups in hall
  • Do crunches in hall
  • Do twists in hall
  • Charge up powerbanks
  • Charge up Visible
  • Charge up personal phone
  • Charge up spam phone
  • Charge up watch
  • Charge up HLTH band
  • Refill bottle with squash
  • Put OddBox container in front of the door on Sunday
  • Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/toast/fruit
  • Take photo of tea
  • Bring tea through to the living room
  • Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
  • Do washing up
  • Put tea into NutraCheck
  • Choccie raisins in the fridge too
  • 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 BP spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
  • Close living room window
  • Close kitchen window
  • Close bathroom window
  • Close back door
  • Clear browser caches every Tuesday
  • Clear browser caches on 27th of every month
  • Do evening Visible check-in
  • Take evening pills
  • Go to bed