Today's (1st April 2026) 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
• 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
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Do weekly backups
• Crack open a new jar of decaff coffee
• Contact the council about the recycling boxes return - they've gotta be dropped off at a depot so I've asked my SIL to do it for me - she was going to do it yesterday, but someone had put rubbish in them so she wasn't willing to take them until that had been sorted which it was 5 minutes after she left, so I've just gotta keep my eyes peeled for any more rubbish that gets put in there now
• Sort out more of spare room
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups - 75 this week
• Do morning crunches - 35 this week
• Give clothes to Anglo Doorstep Collection today between 11am and 1pm
• Sob my heart out
• Have creamy drinking chocolates
• And chocolate from the fridge
• Sob my heart out for a while
• Console myself with a creamy drinking chocolate
• 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 seat cushion
• Make lunch of sweet potato fries, frozen veggies and mayo
• Take photo of 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
• Clean the bathroom
• Put new rim block in toilet
• Mop the bathroom floor
• Tidy living room
• 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
• As well as choccie raisins too
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And dried fruit and nuts in the tubs
• And toasted giant corn in the drawers
• 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 April 2026) breakfast photo

My first meal of my fresh-start month was my usual 2 slices of wholemeal 'Toastie' toast with approximately 20g of 'Buttery' spread and a freshly decanted 250ml bottle of Tropical juice.

Here's today's breakfast photo:

Mornin' all

I've been awake and downstairs for 3½ hours, and I'm pretty proud of everything I've accomplished so far this morning.  I've taken my blood pressure (which was in my normal range), popped my 9 morning pills, started off the weekly virus scan, had my breakfast, got washed and changed, started off the weekly backups, done my exercises, put my external hard drive away and collapsed onto the sofa to make this first blog post of the day.

My heart is gonna break in a big way today, but it needs to be done and it's been waiting for 4 years, so it's time for me to say goodbye to Steve for the last time.

Gonna get today's breakfast photo sorted now, then put today's to-do list together.

BBS