First update to today's to-do list

• Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 again today
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run weekly virus scan
• Do backups - started @ 5.50am and finished @ 7.32am
• Put external hard drive away
• Install update
• Resize 2 signs
• 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
• Have caffeinated coffee
• Bring in first delivery
• Open first delivery
• Put first delivery away
• Bring in second delivery
• Open second delivery
• Put second delivery away
• Contact bank about Steve's statements for last year of his life
• Get Steve's bank statements for all of 2022
• Keep an eye on emails about the digital switchover
• 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
• Do morning laps
• Do 75 morning sit-ups
• Do 35 morning crunches
• Do 75 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
• 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 - there's interest in the kitchen things now
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything - someone is interested - they didn't reply yesterday so I've sent them another message
• Make lunch of salad
• 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 - I've just emailed them to chase it up - I heard from them this morning and they have forwarded my message onto the most appropriate department, so I've just gotta be patient now
• Email service certificate to home insurers
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• 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 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

Globally, the amount of...

...people with my disability, in all its forms, including third world countries, is about 624 million sufferers in the entire globe from all of the causes of my disability combined which is roughly the size of the population of the EU but considerably less than the population of places like India and China which have almost 1.5 billion residents each, so it's no wonder that it took 5.5 years and me to be at deaths door and spending 4.5 months in hospital to be diagnosed!

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

• Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 again today
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run weekly virus scan
• Do backups - started @ 5.50am
• 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
• Have caffeinated coffee
• Bring in first delivery
• Open first delivery
• Put first delivery away
• Bring in second delivery
• Open second delivery
• Put second delivery away
• Contact bank about Steve's statements for last year of his life
• Get Steve's bank statements for all of 2022
• Keep an eye on emails about the digital switchover
• 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
• Do morning laps
• Do 75 morning sit-ups
• Do 35 morning crunches
• Do 75 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
• 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 - there's interest in the kitchen things now
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything - someone is interested - they didn't reply yesterday so I've sent them another message
• Make lunch of salad
• 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 - I've just emailed them to chase it up - I heard from them this morning and they have forwarded my message onto the most appropriate department, so I've just gotta be patient now
• Email service certificate to home insurers
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• 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 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 (13th May 2026) breakfast photo

There's only one breakfast photo today because I completely forgot to take my 9 morning pills until just now, so there's no photo of the water today.

My only breakfast was a bit different to my usual - still the choccie Weetabix and Plant Protein soya milk but with cherry juice this morning and it went down a treat!

Here's today's only breakfast photo:

Mornin' all

Well, it's gonna be a bad hayfever day for me today 'cos my nose is already running, my eyes are itchy, I'm sneezing and just generally feeling pretty bleh.

I've taken my Visible reading which gave me a score of 3 out of 5 so I'll be doing my exercises, my blood pressure was out of my normal range and a bit high, my pills went down fine and I've had my breakfast.

The weekly virus scan is already at 30%, I'll do the backups when it's finished and a couple of Olio people are interested in my kitchen things, as well as Tuesday's no-show, but they won't be getting either of the things now.

It looks, according to the progress bar on Amazon, that both of my deliveries will be coming together today, but they aren't out for delivery yet.

This first blog post of the day is already getting to be a bit long, so I'm gonna shut up and put today's breakfast photo up then get today's to-do list together.

I realised, as I was resizing my breakfast photo, that I hadn't taken my morning pills!  They are all down the hatch now, but there's only one breakfast photo this morning. 

BFN

Nite nite orl

It's been a long, hectic, stressful day that I'm glad is finally over and done with so I've taken my last two pills of the day, put in another repeat prescription for them, done my evening check-in with Visible and I'm going to bed now.

I've got another busy day tomorrow with two deliveries as well as my weekly virus scan and backups, potentially my second day of exercising (as long as my morning stability score is at 3 or above) and my first salad of the week with vegan cheese as well as eggs and spinach.

I've got a nasal spray to try for my hayfever tomorrow that came with the groceries this morning, so that's another first for me.

I started off a new tub of drinking chocolate a couple of hours ago, so I'm gonna dose myself up on those and plenty of cream tomorrow.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Third update to today's to-do list

• Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 today so laps or exercises are go!
• 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 Weetabix, soya milk and juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Put in next grocery order
• Have caffeinated coffee
• Order broken biscuits
• Bring groceries in
• Put groceries away
• Keep an eye on when Visible is due - 11am to 2pm apparently - been delivered @ 12.42pm
• Bring in Visible
• Read instructions
• Start charging Visible
• Contact bank about Steve's statements for last year of his life
• Get Steve's bank statements for all of 2022
• 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 - he's coming at 1pm on Tuesday, so I won't be eating lunch that day and I'll have to wait until he's gone before I do my laps and exercises - today's the day! - done and dusted at last!
• 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
• Do morning laps
• Do 75 morning sit-ups
• Do 35 morning crunches
• Do 75 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
• 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 - someone is interested - they didn't reply yesterday so I've sent them another message
• Get bathroom plug replaced
• Make lunch of salad
• 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 - I've just emailed them to chase it up - I heard from them this morning and they have forwarded my message onto the most appropriate department, so I've just gotta be patient now
• Email service certificate to home insurers
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Clear browser caches ready for tomorrow's virus scan & backups
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• As well as choccie raisins 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 blood pressure spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Today (12th May 2026) I'm grateful for...

...everything being in stock with my groceries and finally getting my bathroom plug replaced and putting in the order for the broken choccie biccies along with the containers to keep them and the giant corn (next time I order it) in and finally getting my brand new Visible to work.  

It's been a busy day today and I've got another two deliveries due tomorrow along with my weekly scan and backups so it's been a busy start to the week again, but I've limped through it so far and I've only got one more busy day left this week, which I'm also grateful for.

I'm also grateful that I've put more drinking choccie onto my next grocery order and I'm gonna have creamy drinking choccies for the rest of the week 'cos I definitely deserve it after today especially!

Today's (12th May 2026) lunch and tea photos

I've been run off my feet all day and this is the first time I've sat down for longer than 15 minutes since I had my breakfast!

The only solid meal that I've had today was my breakfast of choccie Weetabix and will be until tomorrow as well.  Today's lunch was a celebratory bottle of J2O Dragon Berry in celebration of finally getting my bathroom plug replaced, then it took me an hour to get my Visible up and running and I've now got my mug of instant Minestrone Cup Soup on the go for my tea.

I'll be run off my feet again tomorrow 'cos I've got my weekly virus scan and backups first thing then two deliveries due at some point, hopefully at a sensible time.

Here's today's lunch and tea photos:

All finally sorted for the day now

I've just gone through the process of resetting my new (as in less than 3 hours old) Visible band and finally got it to work.  I've also deleted my FitBit account so there's definitely no going back now.  My bathroom sink finally works properly.  My groceries have been delivered and put away and I've had a celebratory J2O for a late lunch.

I'm gonna make my tea, put my two photos up on here and Instagram then not move far from the sofa until bedtime.

I'll try and read and reply to your email while I'm recovering, C, but I'm not gonna push myself any more today otherwise I'll seriously regret it.