I Just Found the Blogger App

I had no idea there was a Blogger app until 10 minutes ago.

This is going to make it so much simpler to add to my blogging journey when I am away from home.

October and November are now fully booked with Anglo  Doorstep Collections , a home based eye test, having my oven cleaned, a visit from my hair stylist and a stay in Premier Inn.

My Unretirement plan 2006

.This year (2026), I reached state pension age in the UK, but I won't be retiring any time soon. This is because I didn't suddenly stop having life goals and dreams when I reached 66 years old.

Life is about living, isn't it?

On seeing the first pension payment in my bank account, I quickly realised that the current state pension won't cover my plan to relocate to live closer to the seaside in Eastbourne

Medication Fun Update

Apparently, having weird dreams is a rare side effect of the  prescription medication I have been taking to help stabilise my heart failure, blood pressure, kidney function and my blood glucose levels 

I take this med around 5-6am and then have a nap while I wait for it to kick in. This morning I dreamt that someone had painting the walls of my day room pink 💗  It was clearly an Amlodipine induced side effect and was so vivid that I genuinely expected to wake up to a pink day room. 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣

My Writing Journey Update March 2026

 So the journey began on Tuesday, 3rd March this year, when I ordered a new notebook from Amazon.

The notebook is a purple hardback notebook with a dreamcatcher design.

I bought this new notebook so I could fill it with lists of life goals and plans on how to reach them.

The second writing-related thing I did was to download the Kindle Create app. I then opened the app, very quickly realised I was supposed to already have a manuscript written and decided to play Spider Solitaire instead.

Bit Of A Surprise Heart and Kidneys packing up!

 

So I checked my health record and I was diagnosed (by the NHS) with heart failure in 2016 after more than 20 years of symptoms. Then diagnosed with stage 3 Chronic Kidney disease in 2022 after 8 years of symptoms. I found out about the kidney disease when I randomly checked my health records on my NHS app in February. I am on a waiting list for housing in Gosport but the waiting list is 20 years long while the average life expectancy for people with both conditions is about 2.2 years...oops!

Confused Again! What a Surprise! Health Update

 

What a dilemma! I have heart failure and am at increased risk of cardiac arrest because I have had one already. I also have stage 3 chronic kidney disease + type 2 Diabetes.

The dietary requirements for heart failure include foods high in potassium and the main dietary requirements for those with chronic kidney disease include minimising or avoiding foods which contain potassium.

The food selections I am looking at are opposites. So I have a choice of managing the heart failure OR the kidney disease.

How To Change a Lightbulb in a Social Media Group

 

How many people does it take to change a lightbulb in a Facebook group?

• 1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.

• 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.

• 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.

• 17 purists who use candles and are offended by light bulb discussions.

• 6 to argue over whether it's 'lightbulb' or 'light bulb'.

• Another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid.

• 22 to tell THOSE 6 to stop being idiots.

• 2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is 'lamp'.

• 15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that 'light bulb' is perfectly correct.

• 249 to post memes and gifs (several are of someone eating popcorn with the words added, “I’m just here for the comments.”)

• 19 to post that this page is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a light bulb page.

• 11 to defend the posting to this page saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant here.

• 12 to post F.

• 8 to ask what F means.

• 16 to post 'Following' but there's 3 dots at the top right that means you don't have to.

• 3 to say "can't share"

• 2 to reply "can't share from a closed group"

• 36 People to post pics of their own light bulbs.

• 15 People to post "I can't see S$%^!" and use their own light bulbs.

• 6 to report the post or PM an admin because someone said "f÷×$"

• 4 to say "Didn't we go through this already a short time ago?".

• 13 to say "Do a search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs".

• 1 to bring politics into the discussion by adding that (insert politician of choice) isn't the brightest bulb. This usually takes place within the first three comments.

• 50 more to get into personal attacks over their political views.

• 5 admins to ban the light bulb posters who took it all too seriously.

• 1 late arrival to comment on the original post 6 months later and start it all over again.

(Borrowed from a friend)

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