Third 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 blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run weekly virus scan
• Do weekly backups
• 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/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
• 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 at the end of July to get it all sorted 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)
• 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
• Put Steve's savings into spreadsheet
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Do morning twists
• Bring in first delivery
• Open first delivery
• Put first delivery away
• Bring in second delivery
• Open second delivery
• Put second delivery away
• Bring in third delivery
• Open third delivery
• Put third delivery away
• Bring in fourth delivery
• Open fourth delivery
• Put fourth delivery away
• 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
• Put menu up on blog every weekend - the rest of this week and next week is up now
• 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
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the bacon or nectarine or sunflower spray or olive oil spray or buttery oil spray - the bacon and sprays are going at 5pm tomorrow (Thursday) - and so is the nectarine now
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of fruit/leftovers
• 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
• Wait for reply about coolant in radiators and changing the controls - they said they wouldn't come out just for that and to contact the installers which I've just done (21st July)
• Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/fruit bread/bread
• 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's (22nd July 2026) tea photo

After having so little to eat today, I thought I'd better play it safe and have something for my tea.  Today's tea was a new yoghurt for me - a lemon cheesecake flavour one.

Here's today's tea photo:

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 blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run weekly virus scan
• Do weekly backups
• 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/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
• 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 at the end of July to get it all sorted 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)
• 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
• Put Steve's savings into spreadsheet
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Do morning twists
• Bring in first delivery
• Open first delivery
• Put first delivery away
• Bring in second delivery
• Open second delivery
• Put second delivery away
• Bring in third delivery
• Open third delivery
• Put third delivery away
• Bring in fourth delivery
• Open fourth delivery
• Put fourth delivery away
• 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
• Put menu up on blog every weekend - the rest of this week and next week is up now
• 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
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the bacon or nectarine or sunflower spray or olive oil spray or buttery oil spray - the bacon and sprays are going at 5pm tomorrow (Thursday)
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of fruit/leftovers
• 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
• Wait for reply about coolant in radiators and changing the controls - they said they wouldn't come out just for that and to contact the installers which I've just done (21st July)
• Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/fruit bread/bread
• 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

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 blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run weekly virus scan
• Do weekly backups
• 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/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
• 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 at the end of July to get it all sorted 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)
• 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
• Put Steve's savings into spreadsheet
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Do morning twists
• Bring in first delivery
• Open first delivery
• Put first delivery away
• Bring in second delivery
• Open second delivery
• Put second delivery away
• Bring in third delivery
• Open third delivery
• Put third delivery away
• Bring in fourth delivery
• Open fourth delivery
• Put fourth delivery away
• 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
• Put menu up on blog every weekend - the rest of this week and next week is up now
• 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
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the bacon or nectarine or sunflower spray or olive oil spray or buttery oil spray
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of fruit/leftovers
• 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
• Wait for reply about coolant in radiators and changing the controls - they said they wouldn't come out just for that and to contact the installers which I've just done (21st July)
• Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/fruit bread/bread
• 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's (22nd July 2026) lunch photo

Well, today's lunch was a complete disaster lol

I was going to have the vegan bacon and had got everything ready, opened the packet and got the liners ready.  So far so good... except that the spray refused to move even though I was working up a small sweat trying to get it to work!  I gave up when I started getting wobbly and advertised the sprays and slices on Olio, then went back to the good old fruit for my lunch.  I managed one mouthful of the avocado before it fell on the floor, so had to give up on that and ended up with just 2 large pears and an apple for my lunch, washed down with a 330ml can of a Sparkling Passion[fruit] pop.

Here's my second of three attempts at my lunch photo:

Woohoo!

I can try my vegan bacon with the avocado at lunchtime 'cos the sprays have just been delivered!  Can't wait to try it and see what I think to it!

Today's (22nd July 2026) to-do list

• Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 again today
• Take FunCap reading on 1st of each month
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run weekly virus scan
• Do weekly backups
• 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/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
• 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 at the end of July to get it all sorted 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)
• 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
• Put Steve's savings into spreadsheet
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Do morning twists
• Bring in first delivery
• Open first delivery
• Put first delivery away
• Bring in second delivery
• Open second delivery
• Put second delivery away
• Bring in third delivery
• Open third delivery
• Put third delivery away
• Bring in fourth delivery
• Open fourth delivery
• Put fourth delivery away
• 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
• Put menu up on blog every weekend - the rest of this week and next week is up now
• 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
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of fruit/leftovers/bacon rashers & avocado
• 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
• Wait for reply about coolant in radiators and changing the controls - they said they wouldn't come out just for that and to contact the installers which I've just done (21st July)
• Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/fruit bread/bread
• 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's (22nd July 2026) breakfast photo

Today's breakfast really couldn't have been simpler - just a 500ml glass of tap water to wash my 10 morning pills down with.

Here's today's breakfast photo:

Mornin' all

Well, after such a late night yesterday, I've woken up at my usual time of 4.30am and feel completely knackered.

I'm expecting 4 deliveries today that'll hopefully mean that I can have my vegan bacon for lunch today.

I haven't had anything solid for breakfast 'cos I'm not hungry, but I've got plenty of snacks that I can have if I get hungry before lunch.

My morning pills have been popped and there's a photo of my only breakfast (the glass of water) that I'll put up when the backups have finished

It's the weekly virus scan and backups day today and the scan is already at 71% so I'm gonna attempt to crawl through my exercises before the first delivery comes.

BBL

Nite nite orl

I'm closing as many things as I can so that there's less for me to do when my delivery eventually turns up.  It was supposed to be here between 2.30pm and 4.30pm but the slot came and went but apparently it's "still arriving today" even though it's miles and miles in the other direction now!

I'm giving it until I've finished my glass of water then giving up and going to bed.  I've already taken my pills so hopefully the side effects will kick in soon.

I'll see you all in the morning for my weekly virus scan and backups, another two deliveries and hopefully my first taste of vegan bacon with any luck.

Nite nite orl