Friday, 10 July 2026

Batteries

I haven't got any batteries for my scales, so I've just ordered several that'll be here between 7am and 1pm tomorrow.  It'll have to be bath-time in the afternoon instead of the morning tomorrow and it's potentially another day without anything solid for lunch.  I've got two apricots and 2 plums to have tomorrow though, so it'll potentially be a late lunch as well as a late bath.


I'm hoping that these will last longer than the current ones though!


Second update to today's to-do list

  • Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 once 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Update the spreadsheet with Steve's financial details starting on 1st March 2022 - just finished doing May 2022 and discovered that he paid pretty much £4,000 on what I suspect was porn in a single night which was a shock, and I'm also as sure as I can be that I was paying into Steve's savings rather than his current account because none of the payments I made to him have shown up yet but he frequently transfered hundreds of pounds from it to top up his current account, which was another lie he told me - up to August now and it's getting worse unfortunately - starting on September next time
  • Do morning laps
  • Do morning sit-ups
  • Do morning crunches
  • Do morning twists
  • Bring in first delivery
  • Put first delivery away
  • Bring in second delivery
  • Put second delivery away
  • Bring in third delivery
  • Put third delivery away
  • Change the battery in my scales
  • Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the apples
  • Put taxi booking into calendar for 17th
  • 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
  • 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 the chilled packaging or bin bags
  • Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion or apples
  • Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
  • Make lunch of fruit (2 x apricots and 2 x plums tomorrow)/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 service certificate for ASHP - I've just emailed them to chase it up - I heard from them 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 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 (10th July 2026) tea photo

Today's tea was a tub of me-friendly ice cream and it was gorgeous!


Here's today's tea photo:


First update to today's to-do list

  • Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 once 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Update the spreadsheet with Steve's financial details starting on 1st March 2022 - just finished doing May 2022 and discovered that he paid pretty much £4,000 on what I suspect was porn in a single night which was a shock, and I'm also as sure as I can be that I was paying into Steve's savings rather than his current account because none of the payments I made to him have shown up yet but he frequently transfered hundreds of pounds from it to top up his current account, which was another lie he told me - up to August now and it's getting worse unfortunately - starting on September next time
  • Do morning laps
  • Do morning sit-ups
  • Do morning crunches
  • Do morning twists
  • Bring in first delivery
  • Put first delivery away
  • Bring in second delivery
  • Put second delivery away
  • Bring in third delivery
  • Put third delivery away
  • Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the apples
  • Put taxi booking into calendar for 17th
  • 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
  • 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 the chilled packaging or bin bags
  • Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion or apples
  • Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
  • Make lunch of fruit (2 x apricots and 2 x plums tomorrow)/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 service certificate for ASHP - I've just emailed them to chase it up - I heard from them 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 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 (10th July 2026) lunch photo

Today's lunch, for safety reasons, is another 500ml glass of water to keep me hydrated while I'm waiting for my last two deliveries.  They have been into the street once and past the end of the road 5 times so far, so they can't say that they couldn't find me.  I've got no idea when I'll get the deliveries so it's just the glass of water until they are both in my hands.  It's not healthy when I wanna put on weight instead of losing it, but for safety reasons it needs to be done today.


Here's today's lunch photo:


1 down, 2 to go

My first delivery turned up just as I put my glass of water onto the table lol


My other two could turn up at any time now too, so it's a good job that I'm not having anything solid for my lunch today lol


If I get too hungry then I've got biscuits in the kitchen, but my official lunch is the water.


Well, it looks like...

...I potentially won't be eating anything else solid today 'cos 2 of my 3 deliveries are due "between 1.30pm and 3.30pm" and my third delivery could turn up at any time because it's been at my local "delivery office" since 9.47am, so I can't have sticky hands and therefore no fruit.  I also don't wanna accidentally pour boiling water all over myself if one or both of the deliverers decide to knock on my door with such force that it verges on breaking the door off it's hinges!  I wish I was joking, but the pharmacy did that this morning and the postie did it yesterday afternoon too!


Soooo, my lunch today is potentially just a glass of water which ain't good when I'm trying to put weight on!


Today's (10th July 2026) to-do list

  • Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 once 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Update the spreadsheet with Steve's financial details starting on 1st March 2022 - just finished doing May 2022 and discovered that he paid pretty much £4,000 on what I suspect was porn in a single night which was a shock, and I'm also as sure as I can be that I was paying into Steve's savings rather than his current account because none of the payments I made to him have shown up yet but he frequently transfered hundreds of pounds from it to top up his current account, which was another lie he told me - up to August now and it's getting worse unfortunately - starting on September next time
  • Do morning laps
  • Do morning sit-ups
  • Do morning crunches
  • Do morning twists
  • Bring in first delivery
  • Put first delivery away
  • Bring in second delivery
  • Put second delivery away
  • Bring in third delivery
  • Put third delivery away
  • Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the apples
  • Put taxi booking into calendar for 17th
  • 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
  • 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 apples
  • Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
  • Make lunch of fruit (strawberries, cherries and apricot and plum)/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 service certificate for ASHP - I've just emailed them to chase it up - I heard from them 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 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 (10th July 2026) breakfast photos

Today's breakfast came in two parts again and the second part was solid - the last of the box of choccie Weetabix with approx 150ml of a new carton of Plant Protein soya milk and the last 250ml in the carton of Flawsome sweet and sour apple juice.  New Weetabix and wonky orange juice next time!


Here's today's breakfast photos:



Goooood mornin' all

I've woken up in a pretty decent mood this morning, I got a 3 out of 5 for my 'Morning Stability' score, so can, in theory at least, do my exercises today, but my weight is too low so I'm not gonna risk it.  My blood pressure was back to normal at 106 and I've taken my morning pills (which were a struggle to take this morning).


All of my things have been dispatched overnight and two are coming via an Amazon courier and the other thing by Evri.


My hayfever is through the roof this morning, so it's gonna be a high pollen day and I'm gonna feel pretty rotten all day.


It's gonna be a day of creamy hot chocolates at every opportunity this morning to try and get my weight a bit higher.


The daily virus scan was reassuringly clear, so I can get on with my day, safe in the knowledge that I haven't been affected by anything nasty and I'm not gonna affect any of my friends today either.


This first blog post of the day is getting a bit long, so I'm gonna shut up and get my breakfast photos up, then today's to-do list, then my first hot choccie of the day.


BBS