First 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 daily virus scan - all clear
• 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
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Have banana
• Have caffeinated coffee
• 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!
• 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 & Freegler
• Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom/do stock-take/adjust menu's
• Housework - Thursday - sweep carpets/meet up with C next week
• Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms & give sarnie toaster & frying pan away
• 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 
• 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
• 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
• Give Freegler her things @ 4.30pm
• 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

Just heard from...

...the person coming out to replace my plug - he's feeling really yucky today so we're rescheduling it which is no problemo at all 'cos it's far from urgent!  I can do my laps and exercises today after all though, which is an unexpected plus and I can relax instead of getting stressed too!

I hope he feels better soon!

Today's (24th April 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 - all clear
• 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
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Have banana
• Have caffeinated coffee
• 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!
• 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 & Freegler
• Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom/do stock-take/adjust menu's
• Housework - Thursday - sweep carpets/meet up with C next week
• Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms & give sarnie toaster & frying pan away
• 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 
• 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
• 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
• Give Freegler her things @ 4.30pm
• 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 (24th April 2026) breakfast photo

Today's breakfast was my usual two slices of wholemeal 'Toastie' toast with approx 20g of 'Buttery' spread and a 250ml bottle of freshly-decanted Tropical juice.

Here's today's breakfast photo:

Mornin' all

I've had a pretty productive morning so far!  I woke up at 3am and went for an emergency wee then went back to bed until 4.30am and got up properly.  I came downstairs, went for another emergency wee then put my glasses, shoes and socks on and got today's clothes sorted then came back down for the day.  I went for another wee, took my blood pressure (which was a bit high for me but still low in the official range), went for another emergency wee, took my morning pills (but I forgot to take a photo of the glass of water), went for another emergency wee, got washed and changed, had my breakfast, washed up, ran a scan on my personal phone while the scan was running on my laptop and here we are!

I'm feeling pretty anxious this morning just in case something gets fucked up with the bathroom sink plug - I just want the dratted thing to work! lol

Not gonna do my laps or exercises this morning, but I will this afternoon so that I can keep my heart healthy.

This first blog post of the day is getting to be a bit too long, so I'll shut up now and deal with my breakfast photo and then today's to-do list.

BBS

Nite nite orl

Well, what was supposed to be a recovery week hasn't turned out anything like that after all!  I've had at least one big thing happening every day and I'm getting my bathroom plug sorted tomorrow as well so I won't even be able to recover then!  The only free day I'll have this week will be Saturday when I have my very-well-deserved bath and I bet something will happen either immediately before or immediately after that too lol

I've definitely gotta get washed and changed tomorrow 'cos I stink, but I won't be doing my laps or other exercises in the morning, just attempt to do them in the afternoon instead.  I've gotta have my breakfast tomorrow too.

I've already popped my last pills of the day and the side effects are starting to kick in so I'm gonna head 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

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear
• 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
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Have banana
• Have caffeinated coffee
• Charge up Charge 6
• Charge up Inspire
• Keep an eye on emails about the digital switchover
• Empty kitchen cupboard - I've done the top shelf and run out of room lol
• Take photos of kitchen cupboard things
• Advertise kitchen cupboard things on Freegle
• 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
• 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 & Freegler
• Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom/do stock-take/adjust menu's
• Housework - Thursday - sweep carpets/meet up with C next week
• Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms & give sarnie toaster & frying pan away
• 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 bacon - someone is coming for the bacon "before 10am" - it's just gone
• 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
• 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

Out of the 6 caffeinated...

...drinks that I'm medically allowed a week (because of the size of my mug) I've only had one so far this week, won't be having any tomorrow or Sunday, so I'll only be having a maximum of two caffeinated drinks this week again, despite barely sleeping on one night (the night before I had the caffeine) which is good going I reckon!

Caffeine is just too strong for me now and even sugar doesn't make it much better, so as soon as I've finished off the sachets I've got from when I had my bathroom replaced and central heating fitted 3 years ago, I won't be getting any more!

I thought I would miss the caffeine but I don't - I find decaff a lot smoother and I don't need sugar in it!

I might keep a few sachets in for visitors, but it certainly won't be a regular thing!

Tomorrow morning between 9am and 10am...

...I'm finally getting my bathroom sink plug fixed/replaced after it siezed up after about 2 months lol

It'll cost me £100 and as long as it doesn't sieze up while it's down, then that'll be another thing ticked off my list and I'll just have the two doors and the stair wall to sort out then :-)

Today's (23rd April 2026) lunch photo

After only having a glass of water for breakfast, I was hungry before 9.30am so I had a sneaky packet of me-friendly crisps then was too full for an early lunch lol

Today's lunch was a serving (ie 5) breaded garlic mushrooms with 142g of mixed vegetables, 80g of butternut squash chunks and 80g of sweet potato chunks cooked in 2 servings (one for each air fryer basket thing) of air fryer oil that I very nearly forgot - the baskets were in the air fryer and everything started to cook but something niggled until I remembered that I hadn't sprayed either of them!  I washed it all down with a 330ml can of a Sparkling Mango pop.

Here's today's lunch photo: