Hurray the first Friday of 2025 and the weather is holding. I wake to find my partner has gone to work, downstairs to the office, so I get on with my getting up ritual like taking my vitals, all good, checking my social media, checking the news, and seeing if there is anything I need to organise today. It takes a while but I get the basic LifeMin out of the way early. When I finally get out of bed I have a to do list and a plan. Today its straight into my training kit, take my morning meds and head for the garage and the faithful rower. The rower must be one of the best investments I ever made. Its cold, 3 degrees cold so I strap in and get going thinking that I am likely to be jaded having trained yesterday, but to my surprise at the end of the session I had done more than 6 kilometres in my 30 minutes.

I stay in my gear as record the session and then set about some pre weekend jobs that need doing. First is to compact the waste bins, dur to missing a recycling run the bins have got full so I grab my tamping bar and set to work on the wheelie bins. In no time at all they are sorted, general waste now has space enough for a couple of bags and the garden waste can have its lid closed. A very satisfying outcome. Then its onto the light over the range that is set into the extractor hood. I rummage through my bits and pieces bags and find a spare glass for it, the old one being broken. There is then a period of cathartic curding and swearing until I get the damn thing fitted back in with a new bulb. Ta Da! Once again there is light, damn me I am good at times. I take a break adn find a supplier of the small round glass down light fronts and order some spares as I am going to need them for the lights over the kitchen window. I make sure the light in question all have new bulbs but alas they still won’t work. Nothing for it but to ring the electrician and ask if he come and do it. So he is coming next week now.

My partner makes bacon sandwiches for lunch and I crack on to my next task. I try to ignite the gas fire in the lounge, the one we have just had serviced, however it will not play ball. I test the batteries, all good, and the battery circuit, also all good, so I ring the gas fitter and ask him to get back to me so that we can either fix it or up grade the guts of the appliance. With all this out of the way its time for a shower before I can settle down to do todays crosswords. I am clearly on form as I flash through them today and I am soon filling in the family planner for 2025 with all my jab dates and family birthdays. I cruise into the evening to draft the blog, eat tea and then hopefully there is a rugby match to watch on TV before I do the last minute adjustments to tomorrows Tesco order. I had a late night last night so I am hopping to get my meds down me early and have an early night, as I need to be up early to get my monthly drugs from the chemist in the morning. It has come round to 28 day jab time again on Monday so I need for my jab to be available. Of course Sunday is 12th night so the decorations will need to come down, so that will see me busy for the pre jab day.