That's my...

...first J2O of the season earned and it hasn't been too bad so far this year.  I seem to be averaging about 1k an hour which ain't too bad at all and I'm hoping that I'll have squeezed in 10k by the time I head to bed 'cos I won't be eating today, so I won't have to factor in that delay - I've already had 6 packets of crisps, 8 chocolate biscuit bars and a packet of caramel buttons today, so it's no wonder that I'm not hungry lol

Nite nite orl

Tomorrow starts off NaNo so I'll be concentrating on that rather than using this blog or the internet more generally.  I'll still be around but I won't be posting good morning or goodnight posts and there definitely won't be any to-do lists or meal comments until it's all done and dusted.

I'll still be popping in every now and then, but it won't be regularly as of now.

I'll see you all at some point in November.

Nite nite orl

Second and final 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
• 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 
• 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
• 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

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
• 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
• 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 
• 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
• 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

Thirteenth update to this week's (26th October to 1st November 2026) menu

Creamy drinking chocolates
Pringles
Instant soup
Omega seeds (chocolate) smoothie
Chocolate
Biscuits
Crisps

Monday 26th

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  2 x Quorn family roast, 1 x roast potatoes 
Tea:  2 x (softest) gold Kiwi

Tuesday 27th

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  1 x Pak Choi, 1 x fillet, mayo 
Tea:  1 x gold Kiwi

Wednesday 28th

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  1 x Pak Choi, chestnut mushrooms, 1 x fillet, mayo 
Tea:  1 x gold Kiwi

Thursday 29th

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  2 x hard boiled eggs, chestnut mushrooms, mayo 
Tea:  1 x pear, 1 x gold Kiwi

Friday 30th

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  1 x hard boiled egg, chestnut mushrooms, mayo 
Tea:  1 x pear, 1 x gold Kiwi

Saturday 31st

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  2 x hard boiled eggs, chestnut mushrooms, mayo 
Tea:  1 x pear, 1 x gold Kiwi

Sunday 1st

Breakfast:  toast, vegan spread, plant-based Nutella, juice
Lunch:  1 x vegetarian sausage roll, 1 x fillet, mayo
Tea:  Any remaining fruit

Today's (31st October 2026) tea comment

My last photographed and publicly documented for a little while meal is my tea today, which was the last pear and the last two golden Kiwi fruits from this week's OddBox.

I'll still be eating and drinking, but won't be putting my laptop on the floor, taking photos or opening my email until I've finished writing my third and potentially final memoir throughout November.  NaNo is officially no more, but I'm still using November in the same way that I use January for what was once JanNo.  They were my two dedicated writing months every year and I wanna keep using them as motivation to write and edit even though neither NaNo nor JanNo exist any more.

Today's (31st October 2026) lunch comments

Today's lunch was different to recently for two reasons:  first, I was still not hungry after this morning's Pringles and second, I'm trying to get my body used to barely eating and certainly not properly, for most of November because of the unofficial writing challenge (NaNo) that I'm still taking part in, even though it's not running anymore - I'm treating it like JanNo and still taking part in it as if it were.

Today's lunch was the last sachet in the box of instant Minestrone Cup Soup and a multipack of 8 Toucan biscuit bars.

Today's (31st October 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
• 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
• 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 
• 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
• 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
• 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

Today's (31st October 2026) breakfast comment

I was thinking that this morning's breakfast would come in two parts again, so I got my first part, a 500ml glass of water, to wash my morning pills down with, but then forgot about my intended solid breakfast and put my laptop back on the table before realising what I'd done!

Today's breakfast was officially just the water, but I've got a 550ml mug of caffeinated instant coffee and the last 165g tube of Pringles on the go now too, to try and stop my belly from rumbling and making me feel sick.

Mornin' all

It's the last day of the month today and also Samhain, so I've gotta get my last blood pressure photo up, then the spreadsheet, then make myself a creamy drinking chocolate because I forgot to make myself anything solid before putting my laptop back on the table.

I've popped my last 11 morning pills of the month and woken up to a 'Morning Stability' score of 2 again, so I won't be lapping or exercising today.

The last virus scan of the month found an advanced issue, so I'd best get that sorted before I forget... OK, all sorted.

Time to get my monthly stuff sorted on my health site then I'll come back and sort out my breakfast comment and photo and put today's to-do list together.

BBIAB