Nite nite

I'm absolutely poopy-dooped so I've taken my last two pills of the day, done my evening Visible reading and I'm heading to bed now.

I'll see you all in the morning for the monthly virus scan.

Nite nite orl

Third 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
• Use new 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/random music/the radio
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Refill bottle with squash
• Make breakfast of Weetabix, soya milk and juice/toast/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
• Sort out last of the hidden cupboard
• Take photos of hidden cupboard things
• Advertise hidden cupboard things on Freegle
• Sort out cupboard next to freezer
• Take photos of freezer cupboard things
• Advertise freezer cupboard things on Freegle
• Sort out cupboards under main counter
• Take photos of main counter cupboard things
• Advertise main counter cupboard things on Freegle
• Put new appliances away in the cupboards
• Buy more storage containers if necessary
• 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 on Thursday 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 - I'm 950g into the safe zone, which is reassuring
• Match up Steve's statements against my spreadsheet
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Do morning 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/have bath/shower
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Take bedding back upstairs
• Arrange for emergency plumber to come back out for the other radiator coolant fillings
• Phone central heating bods to get talked through how to change control panel back to just temperature
• 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 envelopes or tiles or juice bottles or packing material or radiator or cushion - they are coming for their things on Friday at 4.15pm
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the 3 milks/beans/salad leaves
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on CheckATrade to see if anyone is interested in kitchen job - there are a couple of people interested and I've sent photos to the one who requested them and offered the photos to the other person
• Make lunch of fruit/leftovers/toast
• 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
• Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/toast/fruit
• 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

Second update to today's to-do list

• Take Visible reading - 2 out of 5 today
• Take FunCap reading on 1st of each month
• Use new 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/random music/the radio
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Refill bottle with squash
• Make breakfast of Weetabix, soya milk and juice/toast/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
• Sort out last of the hidden cupboard
• Take photos of hidden cupboard things
• Advertise hidden cupboard things on Freegle
• Sort out cupboard next to freezer
• Take photos of freezer cupboard things
• Advertise freezer cupboard things on Freegle
• Sort out cupboards under main counter
• Take photos of main counter cupboard things
• Advertise main counter cupboard things on Freegle
• Put new appliances away in the cupboards
• Buy more storage containers if necessary
• 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 on Thursday 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 - I'm 950g into the safe zone, which is reassuring
• Match up Steve's statements against my spreadsheet
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Do morning 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/have bath/shower
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Take bedding back upstairs
• Arrange for emergency plumber to come back out for the other radiator coolant fillings
• Phone central heating bods to get talked through how to change control panel back to just temperature
• 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 envelopes or tiles or juice bottles or packing material or radiator or cushion - they are coming for their things on Friday at 4.15pm
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the 3 milks/beans/salad leaves
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on CheckATrade to see if anyone is interested in kitchen job - there are a couple of people interested and I've sent photos to the one who requested them and offered them to the other person
• Make lunch of fruit/leftovers/toast
• 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
• Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/toast/fruit
• 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 (27th July 2027) I'm grateful for...

... getting everything packed away in my OddBox this morning and remembering to have toast for my breakfast and lunch in an attempt to chow down on the bread I've got in the freezer.  I'm hoping that I'll have finished off the bread by the weekend so that I can go back to choccie Weetabix again next week.

I'm also grateful that both of the cartons of pineapple juice were delivered... I've never had pineapple juice before so that'll be an interesting experiment in a couple of days!

I'm grateful that I remembered to put the beans and salad leaves onto Olio at 4.30am too.

Today's (27th July 2026) tea photo

Today's tea was the healthiest meal of the day 'cos it was my first apple from my OddBox and my first (small) plum from the same box.  I don't think the plums are quite ripe yet, so I've taken them out of the fridge and put them on the side.  I'll keep an eye on them and have one for one of my meals every day.

Here's today's tea photo:

First update to today's to-do list

• Take Visible reading - 2 out of 5 today
• Take FunCap reading on 1st of each month
• Use new 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/random music/the radio
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Refill bottle with squash
• Make breakfast of Weetabix, soya milk and juice/toast/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
• Sort out last of the hidden cupboard
• Take photos of hidden cupboard things
• Advertise hidden cupboard things on Freegle
• Sort out cupboard next to freezer
• Take photos of freezer cupboard things
• Advertise freezer cupboard things on Freegle
• Sort out cupboards under main counter
• Take photos of main counter cupboard things
• Advertise main counter cupboard things on Freegle
• Put new appliances away in the cupboards
• Buy more storage containers if necessary
• 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 on Thursday 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 - I'm 950g into the safe zone, which is reassuring
• Match up Steve's statements against my spreadsheet
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Do morning 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/have bath/shower
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Take bedding back upstairs
• Arrange for emergency plumber to come back out for the other radiator coolant fillings
• Phone central heating bods to get talked through how to change control panel back to just temperature
• 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 envelopes or tiles or juice bottles or packing material or radiator or cushion - they are coming for their things on Friday at 4.15pm
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on CheckATrade to see if anyone is interested in kitchen job - there are a couple of people interested and I've sent photos to the one who requested them and offered them to the other person
• Make lunch of fruit/leftovers/toast
• 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
• Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/toast
• 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 (27th July 2026) lunch photo

My lunch today was the same as my breakfast, other than the drink - 2 slices of medium sliced wholemeal toast with approx 10g of Buttery spread and a 330ml can of a Sparkling Guava pop.

Here's today's lunch photo:

My neighbour is...

...obviously having a good day with his disability today because when I opened my door to check that the recycling containers hadn't blown away overnight, we actually had a short, semi-civil conversation that went like this:

Him:  Alright?

Me:  Yeah ta.  You OK?

Him:  Just moving the cars around.

Me:  Ah right.  I'm just checking that my recycling hadn't disappeared overnight

Then he spotted his son and went to talk to him instead.

He and one of his sons are the only ones living in the street, and the Council have, in the last year or two, brought in a residents-only parking scheme in our street, with each house only being allowed one parking spot, which is fair enough.  

The father and son are two houses, so they are only allowed two parking spots, but they've got 5 cars between them and another son lives on the corner of the street with an address that isn't in the street, but he and his family park their 3 cars in the street too.  

Maths has never been my strong point, but where is my adding up going wrong with this calculation please:  1 family, in 2 houses, plus another extention of the family are parking 8 cars in a tiny street when they are only allowed 2 - my maths says that the family are illegally parking 6 vehicles in the street, right?  

Then there's the hospital staff and carers using the street to park in for free while they are at work too, as well as parents and school staff at a very close-by private secondary school parking here too so it's no wonder that there are rarely any gaps to park outside my own house!

Apparently there are supposed to be regular traffic warden visits to the street too, but I can count on one hand the number of inspections there have been in the last two years and still have two or three fingers left!

Today's (27th July 2026) to-do list

• Take Visible reading - 2 out of 5 today
• Take FunCap reading on 1st of each month
• Use new 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/random music/the radio
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Refill bottle with squash
• Make breakfast of Weetabix, soya milk and juice/toast/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
• Sort out last of the hidden cupboard
• Take photos of hidden cupboard things
• Advertise hidden cupboard things on Freegle
• Sort out cupboard next to freezer
• Take photos of freezer cupboard things
• Advertise freezer cupboard things on Freegle
• Sort out cupboards under main counter
• Take photos of main counter cupboard things
• Advertise main counter cupboard things on Freegle
• Put new appliances away in the cupboards
• Buy more storage containers if necessary
• 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 on Thursday 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 - I'm 950g into the safe zone, which is reassuring
• Match up Steve's statements against my spreadsheet
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Do morning 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/have bath/shower
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Take bedding back upstairs
• Arrange for emergency plumber to come back out for the other radiator coolant fillings
• Phone central heating bods to get talked through how to change control panel back to just temperature
• 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 envelopes or tiles or juice bottles or packing material or radiator or cushion - they are coming for their things on Friday at 4.15pm
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on CheckATrade to see if anyone is interested in kitchen job - there are a couple of people interested and I've sent photos to the one who requested them and offered them to the other person
• 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
• Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/toast
• 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 (27th July 2026) breakfast photos

Today's breakfast was a total break from my recent norm, because it was my standard 500ml glass of water to wash down my 10 morning pills with, but then I decided to have 2 slices of medium sliced wholemeal toast with approximately 10g of Buttery spread and a 250ml bottle of Wonky Orange juice.  I had the toast 'cos I need all the room I can get in my freezer, ready for tomorrow's huge protein and herbs order lol  Assuming that the proteins are in stock, it could shock my belly tomorrow lunchtime with having both fresh veg and protein, which it hasn't had for many years.  I've had frozen veg, but not fresh for almost 30 years so it'll be interesting to see how my belly copes lol

Here's today's breakfast photos: