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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 760 , Wednesday 26/11/2025

Wednesday started just after 07:30 & found me suffering from a streaming cold which had come over me during the night causing me to sneeze myself awake in the wee small hours!

I cracked on with breakfast & my chores then set about insulating the pipes that run along the landing & those in Mrs S’s study.
I also re laid part of the cable run to my room because it was bugging me that it wasn’t ’just so’.

The doorbell went around 11am & our postie stood without holding my iPad, which I’m now using to write this! However at the time I was very good, & put it on one side, having thanked our Portman profusely, & went back to re-laying the floorboards.

Stopped for a cheese n pickle sarnie around 1pm then finished the floorboards.

I had just finished that at around 3pm when Mrs S rang to say that her mum had been taken to hospital again & she was on route to see what was what. Turns out that my MiL had had a fall & cut her leg, but other than a dressing & an overnight stay under observation she seems to be ok - indeed Mrs S rang this evening & the Dr was discussing discharge details with her.

The upshot of all this is that I delayed unpacking & making the the new iPad mine until I knew all was well & I wasn’t going to have to find someway getting over to the hospital without a car!

So it was at around 4pm I finally got to play with my new toy / early Christmas present.

I’ve decided not to do a straight copy of everything all at once as I want to tailor this new iPad according to its capabilities.

Final Thoughts.

Not a bad day all told, the post router move work is very nearly done & I have my new iPad 3 days before I was expecting it!

Now it just has to survive until tomorrow lunchtime when the case & screen protector arrive!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 801 , Tuesday 06/01/2026

Tuesday started late - the duvet was hard to let go of & I finally managed to escape its clutches at around 08:15.

Mrs S had gone into the office so there was a load of tidying up to do before I could get my breakfast.

Caught up on here after breakfast then finished the days chores.

I finally decided on a ‘new’ game this afternoon, having access to the playstation back catalog thru my PSN+ I decided to try ‘Dishonoured’ from something like 10 years ago. I can see why it won a load of awards, it had me gripped from the start & there is a follow up also available on the back catalog. It’s not got a wide open world but I can live with it.

We had a pasta bake for tea when Mrs S got home then a bit of nostalgia in the shape of episodes of ‘All Creatures Great & Small’ & ‘One Foot in the Grave’ seeing us to the end of the evening.
I am Victor Meldrew! 😆

Final Thoughts.

It’s my MiL’s funeral tomorrow, it looks like a cold day to be standing outside for her burial. Many spoons will be needed.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 962 , Tuesday 16/06/2026

Well today went quick!

I meant to have a lie in but failed miserably, despite me putting earplugs in last night my body decided that just before 7am was the ideal time to rise & shine!

Breakfast & chores as per.

Did a bit of work on the pond - the plant life is going nuts & is causing it to overflow so I yanked a load of it out. A more permanent fix is needed but I have neither the energy nor the inclination at the moment.

Final Thoughts.

I am super forgetful at the moment, I nearly forgot that it was my brother’s birthday but remembered just in time to give him a call around teatime!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 779 , Monday 15/12/2025

Monday started rather early and just before 7am.

I made us breakfast then did some chores before we set out for the days adventures.

First stop was to drop Mrs S off at the solicitors to have a meeting about next steps vis a vis the will & my MiL's estate, it seems that they will do the majority of the heavy lifting, for a fee of course!

While Mrs S was in with the solicitor I went up to my MiL's house and tackled a couple more draws ... made some interesting finds today in the shape of a laser measure (Bosch so a decent make), a handful of pencils, some miscellaneous small tools and a pair of binoculars. Mine are a Russian made pair I bought when I was a teenager, these are Miranda 10x50 wide angle with coated lenses. Not super special but better than my Russian pair!
There were a variety of other small nik-naks. I also came away with a small foot poof that I'm resting my tootsies on now and very comfy it is too!

We went to one of the local garden centres for lunch after Mrs S's meeting at the solicitors had finished. Then we closed up the house and went to meeting with the Undertakers, which went ok.

We did a bit of clothes shopping on the way home and then had a light tea of a couple of chicken skewers followed by a naughty helping of ice-cream.

Final Thoughts.

Mrs S is back in the office tomorrow so I can have a day to myself, which after today I could do with to be honest.

I'm endeavouring not to feel guilty about claiming my FiL & MiL's bits and bobs. I know that the contents were left to Mrs S and I to share between us but even so.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 761 , Thursday 27/11/2025

Thursday started around 07:15 ish, after an absolutely rubbish night due to I the lurgy that has me in its clutches.

Mrs S has stepped up & helped a lot today, I must look ill!

Spent most of the day working on getting my new iPad the way I want it & transferring Mrs S’s stuff from her old iPad to my ‘old’ iPad Pro. It should be a significant change for her not least because it’s a bigger screen.
She is not, by any stretch of the imagination a techno nerd but hopefully she will enjoy the bump up in speed & facilities.

One thing I have noticed is that my new iPad seems to have corrected a long standing problem I had with compose boxes on Mona & other apps not scrolling down when the text hit the bottom of the compose box, in fact not merely not scrolling down but the text vanishing until the post was sent. I found that placing a cartridge return or an emoji at the end of the text was a work around but it was annoying nonetheless!
It only took buying a whole new iPad to fix!

Final Thoughts.

I’m feeling slightly better this evening, which is an improvement - I’m hoping for a better night tonight!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 762 , Friday 28/11/2025

Friday started just after 07:15 after a much better night than the previous one but with me still coughing & splitting as I fight the lurgy!

Today has been a quiet day with the high point being the arrival of the bits & bobs for my new iPad - a screen protector, case & a new apple pencil as the old one isn’t compatible - talk about built in obsolescence!

I’ve reset the AVR today factory settings again today & so I have to go thru the settings & recalibrate it next week when Mrs S is in the office.

Final Thoughts.

Well thanks to a number of fairly minor frustrations today has not ended on a high note.

Sometimes I wish there was someone close at hand who I could depend upon to help with technical issues. It is exhausting under usual circumstances to be the one working out the solution to pretty much any problem that occurs with even the most simple electronic devices in the house, it’s even more exhausting when I’m ill & my brain isn’t firing on all cylinders!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 763 , Saturday 29/11/2025

Saturday started late, I had another very disturbed night so I slept thru until nearly 8am.

It’s been a quiet day, I went wild & made scrambled eggs for lunch - threw a couple of bread cakes into the air fryer for a couple of minutes - it toasted them wonderfully! Spread some blue cheese onto the toasted bread cakes & threw the eggs on top = very nice if I do say so myself.

It’s been another day of recovery today - I’m mostly there - just gotta get my strength back now, hopefully I will get a good nights sleep tonight!

We’ve had a Downton fest this afternoon / evening with pizza for tea!

The new iPad is settling in nicely, Mrs S seems happy with her upgrade & the ‘old’ iPad 7th gen is cleared ready for the trade in when the relevant packaging arrives next week.

Final Thoughts.

I seem to have won the battle with this bug, so I can look to finish tidying up after the great router move of 2025!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 764 , Sunday 30/11/2025

Sunday started obscenely early at just past 6am when Mrs S woke me to tell me that she had had a call from the hospital where my MiL is being treated to the effect that she should get over there because they were putting my MiL on ‘End of Life’ care!

Mrs S insured on going in on her own, although I offered several times to go with.

I took me a while to get my act into gear, & by the time I got downstairs for breakfast Mrs S had already left.

After breakfast I got on with the task of heroism upstairs back into some kind of shape, I had to take the door off Mrs S’s study to lay the carpet, then that had to go back on, there were a whole host of other minor jobs that cumulatively took me until 3pm, with only a berth stop for a quick lunch.

Mrs S got back around 4pm with the news that her mum was up & had been asking for tea & biscuits - so it looks like she might well recover. I swear my MiL has more lives than a cat, this is the 3rd time she has come back from what doctors at that hospital have described as ‘end of life’ care!

Mrs S seemed happy with my efforts & was happier still when I made us ham hocks with veg & baby potatoes, with lashings of gravy!

Final Thoughts.

Well today has been a different day to what I envisaged yesterday!

On the plus side my MiL seems to be on the mend, although we are only cautiously optimistic on that front!
Also I seem to have more or less gotten over the dreaded lurgy. I still have a cough & ache a bit but other than that I’m ok.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 765 , Monday 01/12/2025

Monday started stupidly early with next door’s kid screaming warheads off & chasing one another at around 6am!

I clung to my comfy warm duvet for as long as I could but was downstairs by 06:30!

Breakfast followed then after my coffee & some time on here I worked on the daily chores.

I’ve been taking ginkgo biloba for the last few weeks & it really seems to be helping me focus & find the motivation to do things.
I’ve tidied my desk today, with side forays into sorting out my not inconsiderable hoard of computer cables & drives.

The end result, after a days effort is a much tidier desk & a better layout for my mac & the 2 attached screens.

Now I’m left with the much bigger job of sorting my filing system out - it has been neglected for far too long!

Finished the day with s fried chicken takeaway & an episode of Judge John Deed - a fine way to end the day!

Final Thoughts.

I am starting to function again after a long period of struggle, but some of the key factors that drag me down are still very much in play. Perhaps one day I will be brave enough to tackle them & completely change my life.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 766 , Tuesday 02/12/2025

Tuesday started quite late, Mrs S was off to the office so I managed to get a lie in until around 07:30.

I’m still fighting off the dregs of last weeks cold, still a bit snotty & still got some gunk in my lungs so my cunning plan was to do the most urgent chores & then have a very relaxed day.
Oh the plans of mice (or squirrels) & men!

So we keep our spare toilet rolls in a cupboard under the CH boiler - I went to get a couple to top up supplies in the bathroom & noticed some water on the packaging - the last time this happened it was down to the condenser overflow coming loose, so i checked that was ok - it was fine. Then I put my diagnostics head on & went searching for the leak. Off came the cover of our Vaillant boiler, down came the instrument panel to give me access to the innards & there in front of me was a thin layer of water - after some further investigation I tracked the fault down to a component to near the pump - turns out this is the diverter valve, which aims the hot water at the heating system or the hot water heater as required.
I will tackle most plumbing problems but this one was beyond me so I called our tame plumber, Simon.
Simon id’s the part & then got a price for me - turns out our boiler is 14 years old & parts are not easy to come by nor are they cheap. The cost of the repair was a decent chunk towards a new boiler.
Given that the boiler is so old I decided that I would take the hint & let this boiler retire in favour of a new one.

Simon advised a Gloworm boiler of a similar heating output as they are made by Vaillant & share many parts, they are also cheaper.
Initially I was swayed by this argument, but, having had ice to think about it & chatted to Mrs S about it, we feel that although it is somewhat more expensive sticking with the brand we know with its superior quality parts is prolly the way to go.
(Additional: I’ve pinged Simon this evening & asked him for a price for a Vaillant boiler too. )

I went up into the loft & got down the oil filled electric radiator & the fan heater we store up there & installed them at strategic points in the house.

All this took me to around 3pm, wanting to have something to divert my mind I pulled my desk out & had a major go at tidying up the rats nest of power cables behind it.
By 5:30 pm it was all tidied too within an inch of its life!

By the time Mrs S got home it was mostly all done & dusted!

We had nuked lasagna for tea while watching one of Mrs S’s tv shows.

Final Thoughts.

Well today has been a moderately fraught day. We are still waiting on a price & a date for the new boiler, hopefully they will be provided tomorrow!

For those on MiL watch, we heard form the hospital this afternoon, she is still on a palliative care path but her condition is ‘not much changed’ from when Mrs S left her on Sunday afternoon. I’m not sure she will be coming home, but as noted before she is a hell of a tough nut & it’s not over till it’s over!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 767 , Wednesday 03/12/2025

Wednesday started early at just before 7am.
The oil radiator that I left on overnight to warm the upper floor had done sterling work - possibly working a bit too well, so I’ll turn it to a lower setting tonight & see how that feels in the morning.

The towel I put it the bottom of the cupboard housing the boiler was soaked thru this morning - I should have put a bowel down, but when I left it last night it was hard to tell exactly where the water was breaking out of the cabinet. This has been resolved now.

Mrs S, not wanting to be in our icebox of a house buggered off early to the office & was gone by the time I got downstairs about 15 minutes later.

22:30 I’m too tired & mentally exhausted to add much more to today’s entry - I’m glad I wrote up this morning this morning if that makes any sense.

So 2 things before I go to bed.

1. I have not heard from Simon the plumber all day, he is in extreme danger of loosing a long time customer especially after what is detailed in what follows:
2. My MiL passed this evening, sometime in between us getting a call from the hospital at around 18:30 & us arriving at the hospital - which is an hour away.
She passed peacefully in her sleep & I guess no one can ask for more than that.

Final Thoughts.

My MiL & I had a very stormy relationship, especially in recent years. I am still so sad that she will no longer be a force in our lives and I will miss her.
GNU Glo, may the ripples of your passing never fade. 😔🖤

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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#GnuGlo

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 780 , Tuesday 16/12/2025

Tuesday started just before 8am, Mrs S was in the office today so I got a lie in!

I was going to go for a lazy day today but it didn’t quite workout that way.

I was advices that the NHS had me on their Bowel Cancer Screening radar the other week & the kit arrived yesterday.
I knew that the posties came to empty the postbox 3 streets down (the days of one on each street are long gone) around 9am so I ‘procured’ a sample before breakfast (not as easy as it sounds) & fought my way thru the pouring rain to the postbox, popping my poop into the unsuspecting hands of the Royal Mail with around 15 minutes to spare.
Then I had to trudge uphill with the rain still beating down on me (I swear I’ve shrunk another inch!). Obviously by the time I had got in, shed my wet clothes & turned the coffee machine on the rain had stopped!

After a somewhat delayed breakfast I did my house-elf duties & finished in time for elevenses.

The plan then was to flop out & spend the afternoon getting an Attenborough fix via ‘Frozen Planet II’.
I made it thru the first episode & a half then got a bit restless & ended up cleaning the stainless steel fixed head on our shower, that has been bugging me for weeks.
It’s a pain in the butt to clean, & awkward to dismantle.
I swear you need to be like Zaphod Beeblebrox & have an extra arm to re-attach the thing … & why is it that I always get ¾s of the way thru putting things back together before noticing I’ve missed something - in this case the decorative stainless steel ring that covers the spacer that allows the water to fill the shower head. So the whole thing had to come back off again & then, with the ring now firmly in place I got the dang thing re-assembled!

I’ve prolly poisoned myself holding the nuts for the 5 bolts that hold the ensemble together between my lips while I fitted the bolts into the main shower body.
Still the job is done for another year!

Mrs S & I exchanged Christmas cards this evening, I got her a pop up cat card which went down very well, my stock of brownie points is riding high!

Final Thoughts.

Not a bad day - I wish I could just rest though, without my brain dragging me off to do sundry tasks all the time.

In other news Simon the plumber is AWOL & incommunicado again now that the old boiler needs getting rid of - I have news for him its now at the top of the drive so the if he wants it for parts / scrap value he will have to beat the scrap man who comes round periodically looking for such things.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1013 , Thursday 06/08/2026

I was up at 7am & after a quick bite of breakfast was cast into the day!

I did my chores, dropped Mrs S off at the office & then on to my late MiLs.

I spent the morning there, working in the garage & then rescuing a few things from the house.

Got back for a late lunch then spent some time finding temporary homes for the stuff that I had brought back.

Managed to squeeze in a couple of hours on the PS5 before I had to go & collect Mrs S.

Made us a simple tea - chicken kievs, baked beans & and bread roll each.

Final Thoughts.

Not a bad day, but I will be very glad when we are finally done with my late MiLs house at the end of next week!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 781 , Wednesday 17/12/2025

Wednesday stated at just before 8am, despite a decent nights sleep I woke knackered.

I felt bunged up & snuffly this morning, I think I've caught a bug again, I’m feeling cold despite the heating which is always a hint that all is not as it should be in this run down temple of a body.

It's been a quiet day, it seems that what I actually need to have such a day is a ripening bout of man flu.

Watched 'Infinite' with Mark Whalberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor & Sophie Cookson. A bit of turn your brain off fun with nods to the Matrix.

Then, for the first time in a while I actually spent a couple of hours playing 'Atomfall' on the PS5.

Did us a ham & cheese tagliatelle in the nukebox for tea because I had neither the energy or inclination to do anything more exciting.
That said I have got a cottage pie out of the freeze to bung in the air fryer tomorrow night & I'll make some gravy to go with.

Final Thoughts.

I seem to be getting even bug going & it's somewhat of a catch 22 situation, I go out & catch a bug because I don't go out very often (once a week at times), catching bug reinforces the desire not to go out ... rinse & repeat!
Nest year I am gonna have to get a handle on this hermit thing ... assuming I make it that long & don't catch something fatal in the meantime!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 782 , Thursday 18/12/2025

Thursday started earlier than I hoped - first at around 5 past 5 in the very am because Mrs S had set the washing machine to start too early & then, having gotten back to sleep at around 7am because next door seems to have bought the kids a heard of elephants for an early Christmas present! …. BAH HUMBUG!

It’s been a mostly quiet day, I rang my dad but he was busy & said he would ring me back … it’s 21:21 & I’m still waiting. Hey ho.

The lurgy has mostly gone now but it did have a fun day of having me visit the ‘throne’ room on a regular basis thru the day! Now I just feel drained & exhausted.

Simon the plumber rang - apparently he wants to buy the old ch filter off me, he offered me a free service on the new boiler initially but given the givens I’m not sure we will be using him in future. I’ll let him sweat for a day or so, I mean fairs fair!

Final Thoughts.

A quiet day, I hope that I can get over this bug before Christmas Eve!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 932 , Sunday 17/05/2026

A quiet Sunday.

Final Thoughts.

No thoughts worth sharing.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

A change of scenery can be good for the mind 💚

On Thursday, it rained non-stop, but I enjoyed a day out in Stafford. My friend and I had a walk around the castle grounds and wandered through the historic market town. More importantly, it was a chance to escape the daily routine and have a long chat with someone who has a brain that is wired in a similar way to mine. The best thing, however, was the absence of crowds 😁

#neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #adhd #neurospicy #mentalhealth #anxiety

ALT

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 802 , Wednesday 07/01/2026

Wednesday started early, around 7am.

After breakfast I put on my suit, something I haven't done since 2019 & it showed in the fact that it took several attempts to get my tie to the right length.

We got to my MiL's house in good time & the Weather Witches smiled on us giving us a day that was very cold but very sunny with blue skies.

The funeral service was beautiful, Kevin, the vicar, gave a perfect eulogy for Gloria and everything went to plan.

He read out my poem ‘Guardians’ & did it proud, he was right it suited the occasion well.

We went out for lunch afterwards, stopping at a pub I've not been to for many years where we enjoyed a delicious meal.

We hid away from the world this afternoon, just taking comfort in each other’s company.

Final Thoughts.

As Kevin said, the jigsaw puzzle of my late Mother in Law, Gloria, is now complete & we will remember her forever.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 783 , Friday 19/12/2025

Friday started at around 7am, I tried to sleep longer but neither my brain nor next doors kids would let me.

Felt a lot better today so did my chores & then around 10am ventured forth in search of victuals for the Christmas fortnight.
Man, the whole of Yorkshire seemed to have descended into our little part of deepest, darkest Yorkshire! Stupidly amounts of traffic when there should be 3 cars & the odd bus! (Ok maybe a few more but not that many more!)

Made it to Sainsbury’s ™ & had a good forage - largely snack type food, our master plan is for a day long buffet on our first Christmas Day with no commitments!
We used to see Mrs S’s family on Christmas Day & my family on either Boxing Day or New Year’s Day depending. Sometimes in the middle if folks were on holiday or in work.

This year Christmas Eve & Christmas Day are ours, then we are crossing the hills to see my family on Boxing Day.

Spent a couple of hours roaming the aisles then headed home for lunch. Again stupid levels of traffic so I made for the back routes as soon as I could.

Spent the afternoon recovering by playing an extended session of Atomfall - heck there is so much to this game, it maybe smaller than Fallout but even so there are loads of places to find!

Had a Chinese takeaway for tea (chicken with green peppers & black bean sauce) as we have fallen out with the pizza place.

Finished the evening half watching a Kavanagh QC while having some fun on here.

Final Thoughts.

Not a bad day, although I once again proved that I can resist anything but temptation!

I really think I have impulse control issues.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 785 , Sunday 21/12/2025

Sunday started around 07\:15 as opposed to the more normal 08:00 because next door have really just totally forgotten that we exist I think.

I hope they go away over Christmas & come back in the early hours so that I can return the favour later that morning!

Today was going to be a day of utter relaxation but my ND brain decided otherwise, fixating on cleaning a Revolving Relish Server Dish that Mrs S found at her mums & took a fancy too. It was in a bit of a state when I started but it now looks almost like new & I’ve managed to save all but 1 of the serving spoons (which looks like a replacement anyway).

Then for an encore I cleaned & polished the wooden ‘Lazy Susan’ that made its way back to our house at the same time.

That basically took me to lunchtime so I made us some turkey sandwiches (well it’s that time of year).

I rang my dad again after lunch & this time he had time to talk to me, so out Boxing Day plans are now finalised.

Once I had called my dad we settled down to watch the 2nd ‘Knives Out’ move - ‘The Glass Onion’.

We were going to watch the final instalment tonight but Mrs S decided that a couple of episodes of ‘The Last Leg’ were more to her liking to end the day.

We had Pizza for tea, from the place we normally get our fried chicken takeaways from, it was nice & delivered on time!

Final Thoughts.

Not quite the relaxed day I had envisioned but not a bad day at all.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 784 , Saturday 20/12/2025

Saturday started at just gone 7am when I wandered downstairs made breakfast for Mrs S.

After I had finished my chores Mrs S told me that a neighbour of my late MiL had called her to say that they had noticed that the overflow for the central heating was leaking.

So a completely unplanned mission to identify & fix the leak was launched. Somewhat delayed by me being completely unable to find my portable work light (which I found much later in the day still up in the loft at our own house! )

So we trundled across to my MiL's house thru thick fog, narrowly avoiding other drivers who thought that either driving at breakneck speed or driving without lights on in the middle of nowhere were good survival techniques in dense fog!

The first challenge when we arrived was finding the step ladders used to access the loft - this would seem to be a fairly easy task, but thanks to the law of Sod it turned out to be fairly epic.
The ladders were stored in one of the 2 sheds on the property - I do wonder if my late FiL was a bit of a man cave fanatic! when we opened the shed door we found that the ladders were covered by an old kitchen cupboard. On closer inspection the cupboard had fallen off the wall, the chipboard back being compromised because there was a leak in the shed roof!

The cupboard was still full of stuff & it was face down, so as soon as one started to lift it the contents made ominous glass / crockery type noises.
Not to be defeated by mere physics & gravity I hit upon the idea of removing the chipboard backing. This as already noted was warped & compromised due to water damage.
Getting stuff out was then childishly trivial with only 1 old & rather ugly glass vase not making the cut!
Between the 2 of us we managed to get the carcass of the cupboard out of the shed & dumped it out the way behind the other shed.
Then finally the step ladders were laid bare for all to see!

Having gained acres to the loft I discovered, amongst the piles of old clothes, Christmas decorations (some of which have accidentally followed us home) & general bric a brac that seems to breed in lofts of houses that have had the same occupants for a couple of decades, the header tank - conveniently located in the middle of the loft not far from the hatch - yjr lights even worked although they stretched off in the other direction ... how we laughed! *sigh*

The leak was, it turned out due to a worn ballcock valve seal. I had to remove the body of the ballcock valve & replace the seal downstairs because there was no room & less light in the loft.
By happy coincidence I had in my fairly extensive plumbing kit a brand new set of seals - The Lady feeling pity for me after the whole cupboard debacle!

Leak fixed we got everything back into the car & set out for home.

On the way Mrs S treated me to lunch at a small cafe we know on the edge of the moors, a very pretty location & a nice little cafe. I had a seasonal take on a bacon & sausage butty & in all honesty it was one of the tastiest meals I've had in a while! We spent a pleasant hour there then headed for the hills of home.

When we got home I discovered that I had left my portable BT speaker at my MiLs house, this was frustrating, but they are not expensive & Mrs S bought me a new one for Christmas!

We finished the day by relaxing with the cats infant of the TV, starting a 'Knives Out' fest. We managed the first one today & we will probably get thru the other 2 tomorrow.

Final Thoughts.

Actually not a bad day, there was a lot of frustration, but the satisfaction of fixing the problem offset most of that. Getting lunch out & a new BT speaker out of the exercise was just the icing on the cake!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 788 , Wednesday 24/12/2025

It’s been a Lovely relaxed Christmas Eve.

I slept in late, watched a few good movies (mostly Aardman animation ones), ate more than I should. Then went out & ate even more at a Christmas Eve meal at our favourite eatery!

Home now & getting ready to go to bed - ear plugs will be deployed tonight as I’m sure that next doors kids will be up at crack of sparrows (or should it be Robins ?) fart in the morning!

Final Thoughts.

I wish you all the a wonderful Christmas & for those who don’t celebrate a wonderful Thursday & I wish peace & good will to all!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 786 , Monday 22/12/2025

Monday started at around 7am with the usual routine, breakfast & chores. Got throughly triggered by how the bedding had been hung out the previous day - yes I know that I should be grateful that Mrs S hung them out, but that’s the point if you hang them so they dry crumpled?
Sometimes being ND makes life far more drought than it really needs to be.

It has been a lazy day though, I started reading the original edition of ‘A Christmas Carol’ - the first time I have actually read it - oh I’ve seen endless variations of the story dramatised in various forms but never actually got around to reading it. Boy old Charles Dickens was a wordsmith & a half - I never realised he had such a whimsical streak - very pTerry / Douglas Adams (well the other way around I know but still & all!)

I must have read Dickens at school at some point but was too young to appreciate the craft in his writing. Older is in this case wiser.

I moved to the PS5 for the last couple of hours of the afternoon - getting closer to the end of Atomfall but it will keep me going a while yet.

We had a ham joint with veg & gravy for tea - it was pre-cooked but still rather nice. It is also TARDIS like - it looked really small in the box but it will see us 2 meals & sarnies tomorrow!

We watched the last of the ‘Knives Out’ trilogy ‘Wake up Dead Man’ which we enjoyed a lot. I hope Netflix will commission another story in the series, I do like Danial Craig’s character Benoit Blanc.

Final Thoughts.

I’m the whole not a bad day, although I slipped on the ladder when I was fixing the ballcock valve on Saturday & thought I had just scraped a decent chunk of my left knee out, but there is some weakness in my right knee going upstairs so I’m hoping that is nothing long term & settles down on its own.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 787 , Tuesday 23/12/2025

Tuesday started just after 7am, I put ear plugs in last night & took some codeine to quell my aches & pains & I slept like a log, so while I was up earlyish it was because my body was rested enough for once.

Busy day today, sorted the laundry out, emptied the dishwasher & did the other normal daily chores .

Then I vacuumed & mopped the relevant downstairs floors.

Then I sorted thru the latest box from my late MiLs house. So much stuff to go thru!

Cooked ham & Cranston pickle sandwich for lunch then I cast around for a movie to watch while wrapping presents - settled on Tomb Raider, which is a nice turn your brain off movie that I haven’t seen for a while.

Presents were mostly wrapped by the time Mrs S got home at just gone 6pm, by which time I’d finished her pressies & was working on the way of the families. I’ll finish them tomorrow.

We finished the cooked ham joint tonight, accompanied by a (cheaty) mushroom sauce, sweetcorn & new potatoes. It was very nice considering I made the thing up on the spur of the moment.

Final Thoughts.

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 791 , Saturday 27/12/2025

Saturday started very late, the trick to deep & long sleep is total emotional, mental & physical exhaustion & an effective set of ear plugs!!

Got up & made breakfast, folded the laundry then settled down to catch up on some of the Christmas shows.

Made us some sarnies & threw in a couple of pickles & cheese bites.

We watched the last Bridget Jones movie & it has to be said I am the the biggest baby on the planet, it only takes an overly soppy scene & I’m blubbering away!

Mrs S will insist on overfeeding our varmints, which inevitably leads to them being sick somewhere - this time on the stairs - not what you want to step in in stocking feet.
Hey ho, clean socks, clean up the vomit & await the next little gift!

20:18 once more Mrs S listens to mindless dross on Fashbook & I cook , wash up & clean up. The work of a house-elf is never done!

Final Thoughts.

Bah humbug.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

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