Nite nite orl

Tomorrow is the start of another hectic week and I'm knackered so I'm taking myself off to beddy-byes.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Fifth and final update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run monthly virus scan
• Bring shoes into the living room
• Give clothes rail to Freegler "after 9am"
• Charge up Inspire
• Charge up Charge 6
• Keep my eye on Freegle to see if backup wants the recorder
• Put spreadsheet onto health site
• Bring in last delivery?
• Put last delivery away?
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/bananas and water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol - Thursday 5th March at some point between 8am and 6pm but they'll call an hour before, so I've definitely gotta get washed and changed that day lol
• Give small fingered recorder to backup Freegler?
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler this morning after 9am
• Advertise fruit bowl on Freegle - someone expressed an interest within minutes of me advertising it! lol - someone different is picking it up on Monday
• Advertise rolling clothes rail on Amazon
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Buy hearing aids
• Buy Steve's friend's book
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• 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

Book Review: "Fragments of a Decent Man" by Christopher Parent

Kindle Unlimited     Paperback

⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5

Each book I read and review stars off with the full five stars but I'm never afraid to remove them and always give my reason(s) within the review.  The usual reason for me heartbreakingly removing a star from an otherwise five star book is because of copyright or trademark infringement.  There is a magic little sentence that has appeared in two books so far where the lost star is replaced thanks to a magic little sentence either at the start or end of the book and I'd love to see that happen each time I feel I have to remove a star.

At the time of starting to read this book, 11 readers have rated it an average of 4.8 stars so I'm trying to remain hopeful that this'll be a great book, deserving of the full load.

Let's get reading and reviewing shall we?

Apparently, at my reading speed, this book will be finished in 4 hours and 6 minutes, so it could potentially be a late night tonight if I can't stop reading or an early start tomorrow morning.

The first chapter was a bit boring, so I hope that doesn't set the tone for the rest of the book 'cos I've already skipped ahead.  If chapter 2 is no better then the first star is coming off through boredom... I hope this won't be my second DNF in 2 days!

Oh boy.  I didn't even finish reading the first page of chapter two before I skipped to the end of the chapter from the absolute boring dullness of it.  The first star is coming off at page 36 unfortunately.

I hope the third chapter is more interesting but I've already skipped most of the first two chapters, so it's not looking good unfortunately.

Chapter three is about sport which is an incredibly boring subject for me, so I'm skipping ahead for the third time in as many chapters.

Chapter four seems to be about running, which is sport, so I'm officially giving up and declaring this my second DNF in as many days unfortunately.   I'm sure that, for the right audience, this would be a good book, I'm just not enjoying it at all unfortunately.

Maybe that's why this book got such a high rating?  The previous eleven readers quickly gave up reading it too but didn't want to disappoint the author if it got better in later chapters?

It's a 4 star book that I DNF.

I'm potentially only gonna...

...be able to eat lunch and tea on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday next week with potentially only drinks tomorrow, Monday, Thursday and Friday.    Next Sunday is potentially the only day that I'll be able to eat all three meals, so if I need to lose weight then next week is gonna be easy to achieve it, especially if my weight means that I can exercise too.  It's gonna be a very hungry week and my bottom won't like having such a small amount of solids either, so I hope the diarrhoea and rehydration meds I've got actually work lol

Fourth update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run monthly virus scan
• Bring shoes into the living room
• Give clothes rail to Freegler "after 9am"
• Charge up Inspire
• Charge up Charge 6
• Keep my eye on Freegle to see if backup wants the recorder
• Put spreadsheet onto health site
• Bring in last delivery?
• Put last delivery away?
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/bananas and water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol - Thursday 5th March at some point between 8am and 6pm but they'll call an hour before, so I've definitely gotta get washed and changed that day lol
• Give small fingered recorder to backup Freegler?
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler this morning after 9am
• Advertise fruit bowl on Freegle - someone expressed an interest within minutes of me advertising it! lol - someone different is picking it up on Monday
• Advertise rolling clothes rail on Amazon
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Buy hearing aids
• Buy Steve's friend's book
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• 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 (28th February 2026) lunch photo

Today's lunch was the same as yesterday's - 4 Veggie Fingers, 3 battered onion rings, approx 10g of Vegan Mayo all washed down with a 330ml can of Sparkling Passion[fruit] pop.

Here's today's lunch photo:

Third update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run monthly virus scan
• Bring shoes into the living room
• Give clothes rail to Freegler "after 9am"
• Charge up Inspire
• Charge up Charge 6
• Keep my eye on Freegle to see if backup wants the recorder
• Put spreadsheet onto health site
• Bring in last delivery?
• Put last delivery away?
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/bananas and water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol - Thursday 5th March at some point between 8am and 6pm but they'll call an hour before, so I've definitely gotta get washed and changed that day lol
• Give small fingered recorder to backup Freegler?
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler this morning after 9am
• Advertise fruit bowl on Freegle - someone expressed an interest within minutes of me advertising it! lol
• Advertise rolling clothes rail on Amazon
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Buy hearing aids
• Buy Steve's friend's book
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• 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

Updated busy-ness week list

Tomorrow (Saturday) - giving 2 Freeglers their things - still waiting to hear from the second Freegler and the monthly virus scan as well as potentially bringing in the delivery and putting my blood pressure spreadsheet on my health site too!

Sunday - bring eBay delivery?, bring in Amazon deliveries, refill dosette box, take rubbish and recycling outside

Monday - bring eBay delivery?, bring in Amazon delivery

Tuesday - groceries

Wednesday - weekly virus scan and backups

Thursday - glasses frames choice between 8am and 6pm

Friday - giving final Freegler their things

Saturday - bath

Sunday - collapse into an exhausted heap, refill dosette box, take rubbish and recycling outside

Second update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run monthly virus scan
• Bring shoes into the living room
• Give clothes rail to Freegler "after 9am"
• Charge up Inspire
• Charge up Charge 6
• Keep my eye on Freegle to see if backup wants the recorder
• Put spreadsheet onto health site
• Bring in last delivery?
• Put last delivery away?
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/bananas and water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol - Thursday 5th March at some point between 8am and 6pm but they'll call an hour before, so I've definitely gotta get washed and changed that day lol
• Give small fingered recorder to backup Freegler?
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler this morning after 9am
• Advertise fruit bowl on Freegle - someone expressed an interest within minutes of me advertising it! lol
• Advertise rolling clothes rail on Amazon
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• 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

For the first time in...

...about 3 years, I've just vacuumed the entire hall and the carpet didn't know what hit it lol

I've just given away the clothes rail and the entire hall was empty so it seemed like a good opportunity to give it a much-needed clean.

The hall carpet is dark beige instead of almost brown now lol

First update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run monthly virus scan
• Bring shoes into the living room
• Give clothes rail to Freegler "after 9am"
• Charge up Inspire
• Charge up Charge 6
• Keep my eye on Freegle to see if backup wants the recorder
• Put spreadsheet onto health site
• Bring in last delivery?
• Put last delivery away?
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/bananas and water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol - Thursday 5th March at some point between 8am and 6pm but they'll call an hour before, so I've definitely gotta get washed and changed that day lol
• Give small fingered recorder to backup Freegler?
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler this morning after 9am
• Take photo of fruit bowl
• Advertise fruit bowl on Freegle
• Take photo of rolling clothes rail
• Advertise rolling clothes rail on Amazon
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• 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 (28th February 2026) breakfast photo

Today's breakfast was a healthy 2 bananas and a 500ml glass of water.  It's potentially my only meal again today because I'm waiting for a Freegler to come and pick something up so can't eat until they have picked it up.  They've said "after 9am" which could be any time and some Freeglers have come a lot earlier in the past, so I'm ready for whenever they come.

Here's today's breakfast photo:

The monthly virus scan...

...is finished for another month and it didn't find anything it shouldn't so that's a relief.

Today's (28th February 2026) to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run monthly virus scan
• Bring shoes into the living room
• Give clothes rail to Freegler "after 9am"
• Charge up Inspire
• Charge up Charge 6
• Keep my eye on Freegle to see if backup wants the recorder
• Put spreadsheet onto health site
• Bring in last delivery?
• Put last delivery away?
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/bananas and water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol - Thursday 5th March at some point between 8am and 6pm but they'll call an hour before, so I've definitely gotta get washed and changed that day lol
• Give small fingered recorder to backup Freegler?
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler this morning after 9am
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• 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

Mornin' all

Well, I've had a very coughy start to the day so far, but my blood pressure was back to being my normal again.  I've swallowed my morning pills, had my breakfast and started the monthly virus scan so far this morning, so as soon as I've put today's to-do list together, I'll do my laps, sit-ups and crunches then bring my shoes into the living room and wait for the Freegler to pick up the clothes rail.  Gotta remember to charge up my FitBits too. Wanna get my nose stuck into a book as well.

I'm keeping this first post of the day relatively short and I'm gonna put today's to-do list together now.

Nite nite orl

I've got a busy day tomorrow 'cos as well as having breakfast and doing my exercises, the clothes rail is going after 9am tomorrow and I've gotta keep my eye on Freegle to see if the back-up wants the recorder as well as putting the spreadsheet onto my health site, possibly the eBay delivery and it's the monthly virus scan too!  You watch me forget something! lol

I've popped my last two pills of the day and I'm heading on up to beddy-byes now.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Fourth and final update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear again this morning
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol - Thursday 5th March at some point between 8am and 6pm but they'll call an hour before, so I've definitely gotta get washed and changed that day lol
• Bring in delivery?
• Put delivery away?
• Wear glasses for the first time
• Unplug weeds from the drain
• Give small fingered recorder to Freegler at 5.30pm-6pm today - they couldn't make it after all, so I've contacted my backup about it
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler on Saturday
• Give butternut squash to Olio-er at about 3pm today - it's been delayed until 3.30pm now, but she's still coming - gone to its new home now
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week. - we're trying again on Friday so keep your fingers crossed! - today's the day! - it's gone at last now
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Refill bottle with squash
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Clear caches ready for tomorrow's monthly scan
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room - finished them off for elevenses
• 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

Got another busy 10 days ahead of me!

Tomorrow (Saturday) - giving 2 Freeglers their things and the monthly virus scan as well as potentially bringing in the delivery and putting my blood pressure spreadsheet on my health site too!

Sunday - bring in delivery?

Monday - bring in delivery?

Tuesday - groceries

Wednesday - weekly virus scan and backups

Thursday - glasses frames choice between 8am and 6pm

Friday - giving final Freegler their things

Saturday - bath

Sunday - collapse into an exhausted heap

Third update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear again this morning
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol - Thursday 5th March at some point between 8am and 6pm but they'll call an hour before, so I've definitely gotta get washed and changed that day lol
• Bring in delivery?
• Put delivery away?
• Wear glasses for the first time
• Unplug weeds from the drain
• Give small fingered recorder to Freegler at 5.30pm-6pm today
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler on Saturday
• Give butternut squash to Olio-er at about 3pm today - it's been delayed until 3.30pm now, but she's still coming - gone to its new home now
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week. - we're trying again on Friday so keep your fingers crossed! - today's the day! - it's gone at last now
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Refill bottle with squash
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Clear caches ready for tomorrow's monthly scan
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room - finished them off for elevenses
• 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

Second update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear again this morning
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol
• Bring in delivery?
• Put delivery away?
• Wear glasses for the first time
• Unplug weeds from the drain
• Give small fingered recorder to Freegler at 5.30pm-6pm today
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler on Saturday
• Give butternut squash to Olio-er at about 3pm today - it's been delayed until 3.30pm now, but she's still coming
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week. - we're trying again on Friday so keep your fingers crossed! - today's the day!
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Refill bottle with squash
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Clear caches ready for tomorrow's monthly scan
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room - finished them off for elevenses
• 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

Book Review: "Becoming Still: A Tale of Wild Places and Inner Reckoning" by SEJ SARAIYA

Kindle Unlimited     Paperback

⭐⭐ out of 5

Have you read any of my other book reviews from the last few years?  If so, you'll know that I always start them off with the full packing of 5 stars and that I'm always hopeful that they will all still be stuck firmly in place by the time I close the back cover.  You'll also know that I don't just knock off stars for no reason, I always give my reason(s) within the review.  The most common reason I make a book 4 stars when it should be a 5 is because of copyright or trademark infringement within the book.  I've replaced a lost star twice so far after a magic little sentence right at the back of the book and I'm more than happy to do it again in future if that sentence is there.

I've got high hopes for this book because at the time of reading it has 1 review which has given it the full 5 stars.  I haven't read the review 'cos I prefer to read each book with an open mind, rather than being influenced by others' opinions before I've even opened my Kindle.

Let's get going with the reading and reviewing, shall we?

Ooh!  The book starts off with an "Author's Note" and what she has written makes me think that there are some controversial/discriminatory pieces within her book.  She has chosen to present the work as it was originally written in 2012 so it'll be interesting to see what she has to say!

Just before the start of the first chapter, there's what looks like a long photo and tiny writing which are both unseeable on my Kindle so I hope that's the only image in this book like that so that I don't have to remove the first star already.

Oh dear, there's the brand name of a car in chapter two, so we've got two wobbly stars already!

I'm glad that this is a relatively short book 'cos so far I've been bored out of my brain!  I'm up to page 9 of 77 and I've yet to read anything that takes my interest... if this is the authors dull work from 2012 then I *seriously* hope she's improved now!!

Up to chapter 4 and it's such a dull, boring book that the first star is officially plopping off with the other two still wobbly.  I'm glad I didn't read the review that's already up first otherwise I would have been even more disappointed that he or she had thought so highly of the book!

I'm giving this book until the end of chapter 4 before I officially give up on it and declare it another DNF.

OK, I've just finished the fourth chapter and it didn't improve so I'm declaring it another DNF unfortunately and I'm taking the two wobbly stars off too because they don't deserve to stay on.

That's the...

...drainage sorted.

There was barely any growth outside, so I guessed that yesterday's banana peels were still in the waste disposal, ran it for a few seconds, et voila.

Gonna spend the rest of today with my nose in a book now.

First update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear again this morning
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol
• Bring in delivery?
• Put delivery away?
• Wear glasses for the first time
• Unplug weeds from the drain
• Give small fingered recorder to Freegler at 5.30pm-6pm today
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler on Saturday
• Give butternut squash to Olio-er at about 3pm today
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week. - we're trying again on Friday so keep your fingers crossed! - today's the day!
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Clear caches ready for tomorrow's monthly scan
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room
• 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 (27th February 2026) breakfast photo

Today's breakfast was my usual 2 slices of wholemeal 'Toastie' toast, approx 20g from a new tub of 'Buttery' spread and a freshly-decanted 250ml bottle of Tropical juice.

I'm not gonna have any lunch today 'cos I'm 1.6kg overweight and I've put on half a kilo since Monday morning.  Today is a busy day for me so I'll just have drinks instead of anything solid.

Here's today's breakfast photo:

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

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear again this morning
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol
• Bring in delivery?
• Put delivery away?
• Wear glasses for the first time
• Unplug weeds from the drain
• Give small fingered recorder to Freegler at 5.30pm-6pm today
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give clothes rail to Freegler on Saturday
• Give butternut squash to Olio-er at about 3pm today
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week. - we're trying again on Friday so keep your fingers crossed! - today's the day!
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Clear caches ready for tomorrow's monthly scan
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room
• 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

Mornin' all

I've made two reassuring discoveries this morning:  First, my FitBit alarm only goes off twice if I don't turn it off and second, I can swallow my 5-HTP whole as long as it's the second pill I take (after my bladder pill).

My blood pressure was low even for me this morning at 99 for the first time in months!  I decided not to get washed again this morning and when I did the washing up from my breakfast, I got the sign that I need to do some weed removal again, so I've asked Alexa to remind me at 9am.

I put my new glasses on when I woke up and it took a while for my eyes to adjust, but they seem to be OK with it now.

The daily virus scan was reassuringly clear, so that's good news.

I'm gonna do my laps in just under half an hour, then have my second caffeinated drink of the week methinks.

Time to get today's to-do list together now methinks.

BBS

Nite nite orl

I'm absolutely knackered so I've taken my last two pills of the day and I'm heading on up to beddy-byes.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Sixth and final update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear this morning
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/2 bananas
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol
• Bring in delivery?
• Put delivery away?
• Bring glasses in - due between 4.50pm and 6pm
• Take glasses upstairs
• Wear glasses for the first time tomorrow
• Give small fingered recorder to Freegler Friday early evening
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give anonymiser to Freegler today
• Give clothes rail to Freegler on Saturday
• Give butternut squash to Olio-er on Friday
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week. - we're trying again on Friday so keep your fingers crossed!
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room
• 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

Fifth update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear this morning
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/2 bananas
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol
• Bring in delivery?
• Put delivery away?
• Bring glasses in - due between 4.50pm and 6pm
• Take glasses upstairs
• Wear glasses for the first time tomorrow
• Give small fingered recorder to Freegler Friday early evening
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give anonymiser to Freegler today
• Give clothes rail to Freegler on Saturday
• Give butternut squash to Olio-er on Friday
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week. - we're trying again on Friday so keep your fingers crossed!
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room
• 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

Aaaaand... relax

That's the first of 5 collections between now and Saturday and the collector was a good Freegler who seemed to be appreciative of what I gave her.

Tomorrow I'm giving away my childhood recorder, Friday will see the tissues and chocolate box going, Saturday morning is the clothes rail and Saturday afternoon is the butternut squash so it's a busy few days for me, as well as the monthly virus scan too!

Fourth update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear this morning
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/2 bananas
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol
• Bring in delivery?
• Put delivery away?
• Give small fingered recorder to Freegler Friday early evening
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give anonymiser to Freegler today
• Give clothes rail to Freegler on Saturday
• Give butternut squash to Olio-er on Friday
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week. - we're trying again on Friday so keep your fingers crossed!
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room
• 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

Third update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear this morning
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/2 bananas
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol
• Bring in delivery?
• Put delivery away?
• Give small fingered recorder to Freegler Friday early evening
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give anonymiser to Freegler today
• Give clothes rail to Freegler on Saturday
• Give butternut squash to Olio-er on Friday
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week. - we're trying again on Friday so keep your fingers crossed!
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room
• 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 (26th February 2026) lunch photo

Today's lunch was the same as yesterday's and Tuesday's, just without the mushrooms.  It was 4 "Veggie Fingers", 3 onion rings, approx 10g of "Vegan Mayo" all washed down with a 330ml can of "Sparkling Passion[fruit]".

Here's today's lunch photo:

On Saturday, I'll need...

...to do my exercises and have my breakfast as early as possible 'cos the clothes rail is going "in the morning after 9am" and I don't wanna be mid laps or on the floor when the collector arrives lol

Second update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear this morning
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/2 bananas
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol
• Bring in delivery?
• Put delivery away?
• Give small fingered recorder to Freegler Friday early evening
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Give anonymiser to Freegler today
• Give clothes rail to Freegler on Saturday
• Give butternut squash to Olio-er on Friday
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week. - we're trying again on Friday so keep your fingers crossed!
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room
• 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

It's amazing how...

...quickly some things are snapped up on Freegle and Olio!

I advertised something yesterday morning and it's going at lunchtime today.

I advertised the clothes rail at about 4.30pm yesterday and that's going on Saturday.

Then someone is coming for the Butternut squash on Friday.

I've got a busy few days ahead of me lol

First update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear this morning
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/2 bananas
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol
• Bring in delivery?
• Put delivery away?
• Give small fingered recorder to Freegler tomorrow early evening
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week.
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room
• 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 (26th February 2026) breakfast photo

After yesterday afternoon, I'm too weak and feeble to stand up for long enough at the toaster, so I just had a 500ml glass of water and 2 OddBox bananas for my breakfast today.  I'm still wobbly and weak, but I'm more awake now, thankfully.

Here's today's breakfast photo:

Today's (26th February 2026) to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan - all clear this morning
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/2 bananas
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol
• Bring in delivery?
• Put delivery away?
• Give small fingered recorder to Freegler tomorrow early evening
• Give tissues and chocolate box to Freegler on the 6th
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week.
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch of Veggie fingers, onion rings and mayo
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room
• 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

Mornin' all

I obviously put my body through too much yesterday 'cos I totally slept through the FitBit vibration on my ankle this morning lol

I've popped my 10 morning pills with my first glass of water of the day, had my breakfast and the daily virus scan is just finishing off.

Not gonna risk getting washed and changed this morning 'cos my legs just don't feel stable enough to hold me up for long enough and I'm gonna take today's laps very carefully.

Alexa is playing some Baroque music for me because I forgot to unplug her yesterday lol

I've potentially got a delivery due any time between today and Monday and a Freegler is interested in one of the things I advertised yesterday, so I'll have a look at that request when I've got the photo of my breakfast and to-do list together.

BBS

Nite nite orl

I've had a busy day and a thoroughly exhausting last 3 hours, but I'm on top of things now.

I've had to rush all my freshly washed clothes upstairs because my clothes rail refuses to stay upright, so I've gotta remember to bring a set of clothes and undies downstairs with me tomorrow.  I've advertised the rail on Freegle and most of the things that I'd sorted out from the spare room too and a couple of them have already been snapped up.

I'm expecting a delivery at some point between tomorrow and Monday and my new glasses have been dispatched too, so I've gotta remember to put those ones on as soon as I wake up rather than when they are delivered because apparently that's safer as my sight is so bad.

I've taken my last two pills of the day and I can barely keep my eyes open, so it's time for beddy-byes methinks.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Fifth and final update to today's to-do list

• 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
• 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
• Plug Alexa in
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Put first load of laundry on to wash and dry
• Put second load of laundry on to wash and dry
• Sort out first load of clothes and put them away
• Sort out second load of clothes and put them away
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/Barista cinamon roll milk
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Urgently charge up Charge 6
• Urgently charge up Inspire
• Email optician about frames choosing appointment
• Find out when appointment is for choosing reading glasses frames - it hasn't been booked in yet so no wonder I couldn't find it lol
• Put fruit bowl together
• Put fruit into fruit bowl
• Sort out more of spare room
• Attempt to bring things down to Freegle
• Take photos of Freegle things
• Advertise things on Freegle
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Give Butternut Squash to Olio-er? - someone is interested and they are hopefully coming for it tonight, which is a relief - they've had a nightmare day apparently, so we're gonna try on a different day this week.
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit
• 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 radiator or fake ivy or seat cushion or empty chocolate box
• Make lunch
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And vegan snacks in the living room
• 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