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Thursday 16th June 2022
07:19 BST

  Yesterday was quite a warm day with plenty of sunshine - even into the evening when the forecast said it would get a bit cloudy. The temperature was forecast to reach 26° C, but I saw 28° C on my thermometers.
possibly a muggy day
  Today could be even warmer than yesterday with the forecast saying a high of 28° C, but it seems it may get cloudy towards the end of the morning. That suggests it could be a very humid and sticky this afternoon. The sun may not show until midday tomorrow, but it will be full strength from 2pm until the end of the end, and that should drive the temperature up to a sizzling 31° C !

  Yesterday was most notable for an extended stomach upset. After I had finished writing I had a lazy hour before I needed to get shaved, shampooed, and showered ready to go out to meet Angela in the the pub. I had been to the toilet twice soon after I got up, and everything seemed normal. Maybe three hours later I had to go again, and again ! This story resumes later in the day....

  It is fortunate that after my final visit to the toilet I felt perfectly comfortable, and a bit later I could enjoy a quiet stroll through the sunny park. I say a quiet stroll, but I guess that is poetic licence. When I first started walking I felt stiff and creaky, but after 5 or 10 minutes I got into my stride, and couldn't seem to slow down. It is lucky I stopped now and then to take a few pictures or I could have got to the pub early.
green grass and
                              blue sky
  This picture shows how lovely it was in the park. The sky was blue, and the grass was nice and green. Later on it may turn brown if we don't get some rain.
red roses
  The red rose bush in the park had a good amount of roses on it, but it is partly surrounded by other bushes, and so they are not that prominent.

  The curious thing is that having walked quite quickly through the park, and feeling good about it, I suddenly ran out of wind while walking through the grounds of St Mary's church just a hundred yards from the pub. It barely slowed my down, but suddenly it felt almost like hard work. It was nice to get in the pub to sit down. I am not sure what time I arrived. I think it was early, but Angela arrived before the drinks had finished being poured.

  Angela said she felt very tired yesterday. She didn't know why apart from getting up earlier than usual on these light summer mornings. It meant that our meeting didn't have the sparkle or closeness that many have. With the temperature being rather higher than we are currently used to, there was less physical closeness. For all that I still greatly enjoyed our meeting, and along with the very nice weather, it put me in a good frame of mind.

  That good frame of mind was useful for moderating my food intake, although there were other reasons for that. On the other hand, maybe my food intake was not moderated at all for a while. After only having a single bowl of instant noodles for breakfast, I was feeling quite peckish after a stroll in the park, and drinking two pints of Guinness. Soon after I got home I initially decided I would have a can of Estonian (or some east European country) beans with smoked sausages.

  These are the cans of big beans with very minimal English writing on them. I hadn't meant to buy the version with smoked bacon in rather than sausage. The three small slices of sausage they use is not nearly as nice at the version with smoked bacon. Maybe it was with this in mind that I decided I would also have a couple of spicy Turkish sausages. It was a pretty unhealthy lunch, but very tasty, and most importantly it was very low in sugar.

  After eating I lay on my bed reading, and after 15 minutes of reading I had a snooze. It was probably gone 4pm, and maybe near 5pm that it felt like I needed the toilet again. I don't know where it all came from, considering how much I had passed in the morning, but three very productive sessions, with little more than 5 minutes between them, left me feeling very empty. I felt less keen about my dinner after that, and when dinnertime came around, at approx 7pm, I couldn't be bothered to prepare any lettuce to go with the well grilled bacon I was planning to eat. I just ate the bacon.

  After a bit of TV I was in bed, or more accurately, on my bed - it was too hot for duvets, and hot enough to get my desk fan out of the spare room, and blowing across me as I lay on my bed. I read for a while, and then went to sleep. It was another night when I seemed to sleep really well. I have dreamy memories of getting up for a pee twice, and at the same time as the first, turning off the fan. I have a fading memory of thinking that I ought to remember a dream because it was interesting, but I can barely remember that memory about the memory, and nothing seems to remain of the dream now.

  I think I was woken by the bin men nearby at about 5am, but I turned over and went back to sleep. I think it was probably after I had gone back to sleep that they emptied my brown, garden waste bin (that I had dragged through the house yesterday afternoon to put out front). At about 6.30am I got up. Oddly enough I didn't need the toilet (except for a wee) this morning. I must be truly empty except for last night's dinner (and probably lunch too).

  My unwanted purging, and not eating anything with any significant sugar in it yesterday, means that this morning my blood glucose was down to a rather magnificent 6.3mmol/l. I haven't had such a good reading as that for ages, and ages. Now I need to try not to spoil it. I did consider that this morning would be the morning when I had cake for breakfast. I have a well sealed Madeira cake in the cupboard waiting for such an occasion, but not this morning. I had "southern fried" flavour fish burger patties for breakfast. They are usually very safe - particularly when eating in the morning.

  Being careful about what I eat now could be very beneficial for later today after a beer tasting session with Jodie. I always end up drunk, and usually feel ravenous. I will have to take particular care when I do one of two other things planned for today - shopping in Aldi. I will have to be very selective about what I buy. As much as I would love it in this weather, I think ice cream is off the menu. The other thing today will be to get some washing done, and hanging on the line to dry - possibly two lots of it.
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