Nite nite orl

I'm sooo hungry because all I've eaten today is the two bananas I had for breakfast!

I've finished reading another book, taken my last two pills of the week and I'm heading to bed 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 - it found an advanced issue which is now resolved
• Charge up spam phone
• Charge up personal phone
• Bring in first delivery between 7am and 1pm
• Put first delivery away
• Bring in second delivery
• Put second delivery away
• Bring in third delivery
• Put delivery away
• Bring in eBay delivery?
• Put eBay delivery away?
• Give clothes rack to Freegler
• Give recorder to Freegler
• 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 and liners to Freegler on the 6th
• Give fruit bowl to Freegler on Monday
• Advertise air fryer liners on Freegle
• Advertise fruit on Olio
• Give fruit to Olio-er(s)
• Box up recycling
• Take recycling outside
• Bag up rubbish but DO NOT take outside
• 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 fruit and water
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Refill dosette box
• 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: "The Three Most Important Lessons You've Never Been Taught" by Martin Lewis

Kindle     Paperback

⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5

All of my more recent book reviews have started in the same way - by saying that every book I read and review starts off with the full classroom of stars and I'm always hopeful that they will all still be in place by the time I close the book.  They also say that I'm not afraid to remove stars if I feel it necessary, but I always give my reasons within the review, they don't just disappear.  Saying that though, I've replaced a star twice so far because of a magical little sentence at the back that has removed the reason I took it off in the first place.

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

Apparently this book will take a smidgen over an hour to read, so hopefully I'll be able to get it finished and this review written before today's deliveries arrive.

I totally agree with what he is saying about fashion... all my clothes are bought when I *need* them and they've literally got holes in them.  The closest I've got to following fashion was to get some non-NHS glasses for the first time in my life because I needed them (my prescription had changed) and I could afford it.  It'll be the same on Thursday with my reading glasses - I need them because my prescription has changed significantly and I can afford it right now.  I'll also use both sets of glasses daily so that I can see and hopefully avoid the eye strain the optician explained about with the reading glasses.  They won't be at the height of fashion but they will be more colourful and upbeat and outgoing that I can wear with any of my current clothes so it'll be worth the extra money to me.

Just finished the first lesson and it's made me think.  I used to be a lot worse with impulse buys and got into huuuge financial debt because of it.  I learnt the hard way that cheaper doesn't necessarily mean worse, it can mean that you're getting exactly the same thing but without the brand name.  I recently discovered that buying a famous brand of "Veggie Fingers" were exactly the same as the supermarket own brand "vegetable fingers" just with a heftier price tag and the only reason I got them is because they were a substitute on my groceries delivery and I needed them for that week's meals!

There have been the usual Trademark issues, so the first star is coming off an otherwise 5 star book again.

It's been a useful book and I understand what compound interest is now and how I got into the financial crisis that I did and why it was so hard to break free from it.

Just finished reading the book and it took *a lot* longer than an hour, but it's been so worthwhile.  I'd say to get the paperback version though, as certain parts were unreadable because they were so small on my Kindle.

All in all, a very worthwhile book.

Today's (1st March 2026) lunch photo

I'm still waiting for two deliveries today and they could turn up anywhere between 12.30pm and 4.45pm today apparently so it looks like the two bananas that I had for breakfast could be my only solid meal today.

My lunch was a 500ml glass of water today - here's the photo:

That's the...

...Freegle thing gone and my other two deliveries could turn up anywhere from 12.30pm to 4.45pm so it looks like I could be surviving on just the bananas today if the deliveries turn up after 3pm, which is annoying.

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 - it found an advanced issue which is now resolved
• Charge up spam phone
• Charge up personal phone
• Bring in first delivery between 7am and 1pm
• Put first delivery away
• Bring in second delivery
• Put second delivery away
• Bring in third delivery
• Put delivery away
• Bring in eBay delivery?
• Put eBay delivery away?
• Give clothes rack to Freegler
• Give recorder to Freegler
• 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 fruit bowl to Freegler on Monday
• Advertise air fryer liners on Freegle
• Advertise fruit on Olio
• Give fruit to Olio-er(s)
• Box up recycling
• Take recycling outside
• Bag up rubbish but DO NOT take outside
• 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 fruit and water
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Refill dosette box
• 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

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 - it found an advanced issue which is now resolved
• Charge up spam phone
• Charge up personal phone
• Bring in first delivery between 7am and 1pm
• Put first delivery away
• Bring in second delivery
• Put second delivery away
• Bring in third delivery
• Put delivery away
• Bring in eBay delivery?
• Put eBay delivery away?
• Give clothes rack to Freegler
• Give recorder to Freegler
• 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 fruit bowl to Freegler on Monday
• Advertise air fryer liners on Freegle
• Advertise fruit on Olio
• Give fruit to Olio-er(s)
• Box up recycling
• Take recycling outside
• Bag up rubbish but DO NOT take outside
• 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 fruit and water
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Refill dosette box
• 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

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 - it found an advanced issue which is now resolved
• Charge up spam phone
• Charge up personal phone
• Bring in first delivery between 7am and 1pm
• Put first delivery away
• Bring in second delivery
• Put second delivery away
• Bring in third delivery
• Put delivery away
• Bring in eBay delivery?
• Put eBay delivery away?
• Give clothes rack to Freegler
• Give recorder to Freegler
• 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 fruit bowl to Freegler on Monday
• 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 fruit and water
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Refill dosette box
• 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 (1st March 2026) breakfast photo

To please an Instagram follower (@vegan.viking) I'm having fruit and/or water for each meal until I've finished the fruit, then it'll be back to proper meals until I get my next OddBox delivery.


Today's breakfast was the last two bananas and a 500ml glass of water. Today's lunch will probably be a passionfruit and water. I won't be snacking any more and my drinks will probably only be water, so you will all be able to see exactly what I eat and drink every day, but that's OK, right @vegan.viking ?

Here's today's breakfast photo:

Today's (1st March 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 - it found an advanced issue which is now resolved
• Charge up spam phone
• Charge up personal phone
• Bring in first delivery between 7am and 1pm
• Put first delivery away
• Bring in second delivery
• Put second delivery away
• Bring in third delivery
• Put delivery away
• Bring in eBay delivery?
• Put eBay 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 fruit bowl to Freegler on Monday
• 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 fruit and water
• 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

Goood morning all!

According to my FitBit I had under 7 hours of sleep overnight but I've woken up feeling OK, so that's alright.

I've taken my blood pressure which was still in my normal range, my 9 morning pills went down OK but I've gotta remember to refill my dosette box after lunch.  I've got 3 deliveries due today, starting from 7am so I'm gonna get my laps, sit-ups and crunches done at 5am so that I can recover before they potentially start arriving.  The daily virus scan found an advanced issue, so I'd best sort that out...

Gonna keep this short this morning and get today's to-do list up.

BBS