First update to today's to-do list

• Take Visible reading - 2 out of 5 today
• Take FunCap reading on 1st of each month - 1.7 out of 5 for July - 1.8 for August - 1.9 for September - 1.9 for October too
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Weigh myself every Monday
• Log weight into NutraCheck
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Download Visible readings on 1st of each month
• Put Visible readings onto health site on 1st of each month
• 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 toast & juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on Instagram
• Wash up
• Put breakfast into NutraCheck
• Update menu with your breakfast
• Get washed and changed
• Brush my teeth
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups in hall
• Do morning crunches in hall
• Do morning twists in hall
• Do wall planks in hall
• Do side steps in hall
• Do hip circles in hall
• Do squats in living room
• Take part in competitions
• Take OddBox container out at 5pm every Sunday
• Keep voicemail active
• Have caffeinated coffee/peach tea - want to try and get through a second week without caffeine this week
• Sort OddBox recipes into breakfast/lunch/tea/pud/snack/drink
• Open living room window
• Open kitchen window
• Open back door
• Open bathroom window
• Indulge in as many creamy drinks as I want
• Run monthly virus scan on 28th of every month
• 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
• Housework - Monday - change bedding & bring in rubbish/recycling
• Housework - Tuesday - tidy living room & groceries & clear caches
• Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom & virus scan & backups
• Housework - Thursday - vacuum carpets
• Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms
• Housework - Saturday - clean kitchen/have bath or shower
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Arrange for emergency plumber to come back out for the other radiator coolant fillings - I've just re-found him (TJB Heating if I forget again) on Check A Trade and explained the situation and he's up for doing it, so I've sent him the questions from my home insurers and as soon as I've got their approval I'll sort out when he can come and fit the other 5 radiators and fill them up with coolant
• Contact home insurers for their approval of radiator replacements - I heard from them just before lunch and they had a few questions which I've answered as well as I can before contacting the plumber but I want their approval before I get on the blower to him
• Put menu up on blog every weekend - got very rough menu's until 15th November now - I'll come up with some new ones ready for next week 'cos I've only had soup for my lunch so far in November - all up and ready until the start of December now
• Contact home insurers about leaky roof - I've just sent them the additional information they asked for yesterday
• 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 glasses or the plates or the bowl
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants the glasses or the plates or the bowl
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of egg, protein and veg/meal replacement/soup
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on Instagram
• Do washing up
• Put lunch into NutraCheck
• Take lunchtime pill
• Update menu with your lunch
• Refill dosette box every Sunday
• Put in Amazon order on Sunday
• Refill can dispenser
• Do afternoon laps
• Do afternoon sit-ups in hall
• Do afternoon crunches in hall
• Do afternoon twists in hall
• Do wall planks in hall
• Do side steps in hall
• Do hip circles in hall
• Do squats in living room
• Charge up powerbanks
• Charge up Visible
• Charge up personal phone
• Charge up spam phone
• Charge up watch
• Charge up HLTH band
• Charge up fan
• Charge up Kindle
• Refill bottle with squash
• Put OddBox container in front of the door on Sunday
• Bring in OddBox
• Put new fruit and veg away
• Make tea of water/meal replacements/fruit/soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Put photo of tea on Instagram
• Do washing up
• Put tea into NutraCheck
• Update menu with your tea
• There's 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's (13th November 2026) breakfast comment

It's Friday the 13th today so it's Loki's day for us and we came to an agreement that He could cause whatever sort of mayhem and chaos in my life every Friday the 13th as long as He "behaved" on the other days.  He seems to be happy with that so He's been giving me a nightmare with my email programme all morning and it's only just occured to me that I can save pictures from my online email account rather than having to rely on my email programme.

I've just downloaded and resized it over 6 hours after I had it, but my breakfast this morning was just my usual 500ml glass of water to wash my 10 morning pills down with.  I've also had 250g of chocolate covered raisins because my mouth was lonely, but there's no photo of that 'cos they were a snack rather than a meal.

Today's (13th November 2026) to-do list

• Take Visible reading - 2 out of 5 today
• Take FunCap reading on 1st of each month - 1.7 out of 5 for July - 1.8 for August - 1.9 for September - 1.9 for October too
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Weigh myself every Monday
• Log weight into NutraCheck
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Download Visible readings on 1st of each month
• Put Visible readings onto health site on 1st of each month
• 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 toast & juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on Instagram
• Wash up
• Put breakfast into NutraCheck
• Update menu with your breakfast
• Get washed and changed
• Brush my teeth
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups in hall
• Do morning crunches in hall
• Do morning twists in hall
• Do wall planks in hall
• Do side steps in hall
• Do hip circles in hall
• Do squats in living room
• Take part in competitions
• Take OddBox container out at 5pm every Sunday
• Keep voicemail active
• Have caffeinated coffee/peach tea - want to try and get through a second week without caffeine this week
• Sort OddBox recipes into breakfast/lunch/tea/pud/snack/drink
• Open living room window
• Open kitchen window
• Open back door
• Open bathroom window
• Indulge in as many creamy drinks as I want
• Run monthly virus scan on 28th of every month
• 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
• Housework - Monday - change bedding & bring in rubbish/recycling
• Housework - Tuesday - tidy living room & groceries & clear caches
• Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom & virus scan & backups
• Housework - Thursday - vacuum carpets
• Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms
• Housework - Saturday - clean kitchen/have bath or shower
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Arrange for emergency plumber to come back out for the other radiator coolant fillings - I've just re-found him (TJB Heating if I forget again) on Check A Trade and explained the situation and he's up for doing it, so I've sent him the questions from my home insurers and as soon as I've got their approval I'll sort out when he can come and fit the other 5 radiators and fill them up with coolant
• Contact home insurers for their approval of radiator replacements - I heard from them just before lunch and they had a few questions which I've answered as well as I can before contacting the plumber but I want their approval before I get on the blower to him
• Put menu up on blog every weekend - got very rough menu's until 15th November now - I'll come up with some new ones ready for next week 'cos I've only had soup for my lunch so far in November - all up and ready until the start of December now
• Contact home insurers about leaky roof - I've just sent them the additional information they asked for yesterday
• 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 glasses or the plates or the bowl
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants the glasses or the plates or the bowl
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of egg, protein and veg/meal replacement/soup
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on Instagram
• Do washing up
• Put lunch into NutraCheck
• Take lunchtime pill
• Update menu with your lunch
• Refill dosette box every Sunday
• Refill can dispenser
• Do afternoon laps
• Do afternoon sit-ups in hall
• Do afternoon crunches in hall
• Do afternoon twists in hall
• Do wall planks in hall
• Do side steps in hall
• Do hip circles in hall
• Do squats in living room
• Charge up powerbanks
• Charge up Visible
• Charge up personal phone
• Charge up spam phone
• Charge up watch
• Charge up HLTH band
• Charge up fan
• Charge up Kindle
• Refill bottle with squash
• Put OddBox container in front of the door on Sunday
• Bring in OddBox
• Put new fruit and veg away
• Make tea of water/meal replacements/fruit/soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Put photo of tea on Instagram
• Do washing up
• Put tea into NutraCheck
• Update menu with your tea
• There's 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

Loki has started lol

I forgot that it was Loki's chaos day today and He seems to be concentrating on my internet today lol

My technology still works (so far lol) but I can't access my emails or upload any of the spreadsheets to the Cloud, so Loki is obviously going to use today to mess with my internet lol

If you've sent me an email then I possibly won't be able to reply until tomorrow.  If it's urgent, just send me a quick text and I'll hopefully be able to get that today lol  If it's not urgent, social and not confidential for either of us, Facebook and/or this blog is the way to go today. 

Thank you Loki!

Mornin' all

Well, I've woken up to a Visible 'Morning Stability' score of 2 today, so there won't be any laps or exercises.

It's also Friday the 13th so it's Loki's day to cause mischief and mayhem for me, so anything at all could happen today lol

My blood pressure was 110 and I've remembered to pop all my 10 pills with my glass of water and I'm giving my phone some emergency juice.  It'll be creamy drinking chocolates until lunchtime now 'cos I wasn't hungry before I put my laptop back on the table, so nothing solid until lunchtime now.

The daily virus scan was reassuringly clear and I'm expecting a regular Olio-er to come for her chewing gum at 8am so I'm predicting that I'll have a mouthful of creamy drinking chocolate just as she rings my bell and I'll know that Loki is making full use of his day lol

I didn't wake up desperate for a wee at about 2am, so 4pm is definitely my cut-off for drinks now.

I'm gonna try and remember to ask my GP for a week's worth of sleeping pills to try and get my body back into being able to sleep deeply instead of lightly and feeling like I haven't slept at all.

I also wanna print out and file the recipes that I copied from my recipe blog so that I can keep them all together in the kitchen ready for when I make my meals, but I'll have to wait until my neighbours wake up before I do that.

Time to get my first creamy drinking chocolate of the day now, then I can start to hopefully warm up a bit.

BBS with my breakfast photo and to-do list.

Nite nite orl

I'm thoroughly knackered after this morning's full set of laps and exercises so I've taken my pills and I'm heading to bed.

I've got someone coming for the chewing gum at 8am tomorrow, so I'll do my laps and exercises either after that or in the afternoon as long as my Visible score is high enough.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Second 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 - 1.7 out of 5 for July - 1.8 for August - 1.9 for September - 1.9 for October too
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Weigh myself every Monday - 2.75kg over where the nurse wants me to be
• Log weight into NutraCheck
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Download Visible readings on 1st of each month
• Put Visible readings onto health site on 1st of each month
• 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 toast & juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on Instagram
• Wash up
• Put breakfast into NutraCheck
• Update menu with your breakfast
• Get washed and changed
• Brush my teeth
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups in hall
• Do morning crunches in hall
• Do morning twists in hall
• Do wall planks in hall
• Do side steps in hall
• Do hip circles in hall
• Do squats in living room
• Celebrate finishing the manuscript with ice cream
• Take part in competitions
• Take OddBox container out at 5pm every Sunday
• Keep voicemail active
• Have caffeinated coffee/peach tea - want to try and get through a second week without caffeine this week
• Sort OddBox recipes into breakfast/lunch/tea/pud/snack/drink
• Open living room window
• Open kitchen window
• Open back door
• Open bathroom window
• Indulge in as many creamy drinks as I want
• Run monthly virus scan on 28th of every month
• 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
• Housework - Monday - change bedding & bring in rubbish/recycling
• Housework - Tuesday - tidy living room & groceries & clear caches
• Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom & virus scan & backups
• Housework - Thursday - vacuum carpets
• Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms
• Housework - Saturday - clean kitchen/have bath or shower
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Arrange for emergency plumber to come back out for the other radiator coolant fillings - I've just re-found him (TJB Heating if I forget again) on Check A Trade and explained the situation and he's up for doing it, so I've sent him the questions from my home insurers and as soon as I've got their approval I'll sort out when he can come and fit the other 5 radiators and fill them up with coolant
• Contact home insurers for their approval of radiator replacements - I heard from them just before lunch and they had a few questions which I've answered as well as I can before contacting the plumber but I want their approval before I get on the blower to him
• Put menu up on blog every weekend - got very rough menu's until 15th November now - I'll come up with some new ones ready for next week 'cos I've only had soup for my lunch so far in November - all up and ready until the start of December now
• Contact home insurers about leaky roof
• 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 glasses or the plates or the bowl
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants the glasses or the plates or the bowl
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of egg, protein and veg/meal replacement/soup
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on Instagram
• Do washing up
• Put lunch into NutraCheck
• Take lunchtime pill
• Update menu with your lunch
• Refill dosette box every Sunday
• Refill can dispenser
• Do afternoon laps
• Do afternoon sit-ups in hall
• Do afternoon crunches in hall
• Do afternoon twists in hall
• Do wall planks in hall
• Do side steps in hall
• Do hip circles in hall
• Do squats in living room
• Charge up powerbanks
• Charge up Visible
• Charge up personal phone
• Charge up spam phone
• Charge up watch
• Charge up HLTH band
• Charge up fan
• Charge up Kindle
• Refill bottle with squash
• Put OddBox container in front of the door on Sunday
• Bring in OddBox
• Put new fruit and veg away
• Make tea of water/meal replacements/fruit/soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Put photo of tea on Instagram
• Do washing up
• Put tea into NutraCheck
• Update menu with your tea
• There's 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

Fifth update to this week's (9th to 15th November 2026) menu

Creamy drinking chocolates
J2O's as a reward
Mince pies
Instant soup
Omega seeds (chocolate) smoothie
Chocolate
Biscuits
Carrots

Monday 9th

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  Instant soup 
Tea:  OddBox fruit

Tuesday 10th

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  Instant soup 
Tea:  OddBox fruit

Wednesday 11th

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  1 x Pak Choi, 1 x tofu, mayo 
Tea:  OddBox fruit

Thursday 12th

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  1 x Pak Choi, 1 x tofu, mayo 
Tea:  OddBox fruit

Friday 13th

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  1 x Pak Choi, 1 x tofu, mayo 
Tea:  OddBox fruit

Saturday 14th

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  1 x Pak Choi, carrots, mayo 
Tea:  OddBox fruit

Sunday 15th

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  Sunday Roast 
Tea:  OddBox fruit

Tomorrow is...

...Friday the 13th, so it's Loki's agreed day to cause mischief for me.

We've come to an agreement that every Friday the 13th, He can cause as much chaos and mischief for me as He wants, so I'm glad that I've got my writing all done and dusted before then.

I might or might not be online much tomorrow, depending on the type of mischief that Loki wants to cause - if He chooses to mess with my electricity or technology, then I won't be but if He chooses a different way to cause chaos then I will be.

Tomorrow is Loki's day of freedom as long as He keeps me safe, so don't worry if I'm not around much tomorrow or my phones go splat or my internet goes pop or whatever - I'll be as safe as I always am, but Loki will just be making the most of His day.

Today's (12th November 2026) tea comment

Today's tea was a healthy end to the day - 2 apples and an easy peeler.