08:30 BST

  Today could be a lot like yesterday. It has been, and seems to still be a sunny morning, but maybe it was degrade to just sunny spells soon. The afternoon could feature light rain, but the early evening should see sunny spells back. Of course the evenings are now getting quite short, and sunset will be just after 7pm tonight. The afternoon may only peak at just 17° C. Tonight may be no colder than last night. Tomorrow may start with some light rain - much of the night will also see light rain. I don't actually believe it, but from 8am tomorrow we could see sunny spells for the rest of the day, except for 4pm when there could be a light shower. Tomorrow high may only be 17° C again.

  Yesterday seemed a fairly relaxed day. I was expecting a parcel to be delivered by my regular postman, and I usually see him around midday, plus or minus half an hour. There was a possibility it might have been delivered by the Royal Mail van which is often seen earlier. I decided I would stay ready, but not washed, until the parcel arrived. It arrived almost when expected at about half past midday.

  The small parcel contained a new pair of shorts, and I made dam sure they had belt loops so that next summer I can wear the shorts, which are shorter shorts than my usual walking short, with a nice strong belt so they don't fall down on me like those that having only an elasticated waist. It occurs to me that there could be one flaw in these future plans. If the Mounjaro injections work as they are supposed to, I could drop quite a few trouser waist inches, and next summer I might have to buy new shorts and trousers. I remember a similar thing back in 1982.

  In 1982 (possibly starting in 1981) I managed to reduce my waist size by about 8 inches or more. They are in poor condition (but just about wearable), but I saves the smallest pair of jeans I have ever known myself to wear (although they must have been a bit smaller when I was just a kid). It has been a long ambition to be able to put them on again. If those injections are as magic as claimed, maybe I will be able to wear those jeans again.

  Once the postman had called with my parcel I could indulge in the semi luxury of having a shower, but it did seem a bit late, and I didn't wash my hair as originally intended (fortunately it didn't look bad once brushed). Once freshly cleaned and fragrant I got dressed, and ready to go out. There was no time for a walk in the park, and besides which I didn't want to end up too knackered, but there was plenty of time to go shopping in Aldi.

  After some low key excitement of shopping in Aldi again, after a pause of a few weeks or a couple of months, the excitement has now faded away, and I was able to almost be a lot more careful about how much I threw into my shopping trolley. I did buy fruit, but no vegetable. I was laughably relying on the ready meals I bought to provide a balanced diet ! I bought maybe half a dozed ready meals, and I also bought 3 tubs of ice cream.

  I was trying to buy ice cream that had Sodium Alginate listed as part of it's ingredients because I feel sure that what I read about Sodium Alginate blocking sugar absorption in the gut, is true. Unfortunately trying to read tiny type through a layer of frost did not make the task easy, or even possible. One of the ice creams was in a container that was not a tub - and so have a lot more ice cream in it. It listed Sodium Alginate as the last item, and so would not have had a lot of it. This story continues when I start writing about this morning.

  On this shopping trip my rucksack was not overloaded, and the two bags I carried were not very heavy (they weren't light though). I didn't walk home extra fast, but I didn't hang about either. I was spurred on by the feeling that getting to the toilet to have a pee would be a fine idea. Once I got home I dropped all my shopping, and went up to the toilet. Once I got there my apparent need became a lot less, and although I still wanted a pee, it was not the gallons I expected before I reached home. I think I would describe it as only a modest amount.

  Having dealt with that pee I started unpacking my bags, and putting my shopping away. Then it was time for lunch. I had deliberately bought some sliced and some grated cheese because I fancied cheese on toast, but my mind has slipped in Aldi, and I found I was putting another couple of "wraps" in my shopping trolley. They are probably not good for me, but I had Chicken Tikka in a naan bread wrap, and something very similar, but a bit different as a wrap around some Morrocan style chicken (I think it had apricots in it, but I didn't really notice any apricot in it).

  I still had time for a quick snooze, or at least that is what happened rather what was intended, before Jodie arrived for a beer tasting session. When she arrived she decided to open a can of weird beer. It was one I had ordered and paid for, and for some stupid reason I didn't think I would be sharing it with myself. I like to get a few beers in that I presume Jodie will like. This one was one she did like, but I thought it was disgusting. I had a few sips, and then opened a can of Irn Bru to help take the taste away.

  Michael did his usual of saying he had doubts about whether he could get here, and then turned up earlier than usual. As usual he had brought a few beers with him - basic supermarket beers like Heiniken - that he knew he definitely liked in case our beers were too weird for him - which does happen occasionally, but there always alternatives here (I always buy some lagers or pilsners when ordering beer supplies).

  Michael seemed in a fairly good state, but sometimes I do wonder if he is going down the dementia road. I had bought him a few key chains so that he wouldn't have to go through the pantomime of trying to find where he had put his keys before he left here. He claimed to have never noticed my keys on their chain attached to my trousers (only on my outdoor trousers). For some weird reason he thought keys on a chain may be a gay signal - instead of the more universal heavy metal signal !

  A little later we were joined by Mark. He only "bought" 30 minutes or parking, and so he and Jodie left about half an hour later, and Michael just a few minutes after that. I could finally have my dinner. I must admit I was looking forward to it, and that was despite not drinking that much booze. My dinner was another pulled pork with rice and green cabbage ready meal, and some ice cream. It was from the new container of salted caramel flavour ice cream I had bought from Aldi earlier, and I did seem to eat a fair amount of it...or at least a bit more than I thought was probably safe.

  I ate my dinner while watching TV. It was too late to watch the news, and I was watching Star Trek: The New Generation...I think ? I would occasionally look at other stuff on my PC, sometimes because I was a bit bored, and always during a commercial break. I turned off the TV at 11pm when QI finished, although I thought it usually finished at 10pm, but sometimes they swap around QI and Have I Got News For You.

  I did try and read when I got to bed, but I soon realised I wanted to sleep. I think I was fast asleep about half an hour after getting to bed. I seemed to sleep well, but I don't remember having any dreams, or at least I can't recall any details of any dream if I did have one. I mostly remember that it was another morning when I woke up earlier than I would have chosen, but got up to do my health measurements. I didn't go back to bed after doing them because I saw there were some updates for my computer, and some tech news to amuse me.

  This morning I didn't know what to expect when it came to weighing myself. I knew I had eaten well, and I had had beer. That all added up to a weight gain of 300gm. That is not welcome, but not that bad. I think I did go for another pee, and a poo a little later, but forgot to record what I saw when I weighed myself again. That was a bit annoying, because I may well have been a couple of hundred grams lighter than my records now show.

  My blood glucose measurement was always going to be interesting after eating some naughty, but very nice, salted caramel ice cream last night. The Contour meter read 8.2mmol/l, and while I prefer readings under 8.0mmol/l, it was almost a good reading. The GlucoRX meter read 8.1mmol/l, and while a bit lower, it would still have been better if it were lower still. The GlucoFix meter read the highest, but it was still only 8.3mmol/l. I would have expected all these readings to be higher, and so maybe I was saved by the Sodium Alginate in the ice cream. I think I have to say they were very satisfactory.

  This morning I was kept on the phone by my "friend" Lee. He claims he has no one else to talk to these days despite always claiming he has so many friends. The trouble is he describes the bloke down the road in the paper shop to be one of his friends because he sometimes chats for a minute or two when buying something in there. Of course it could be that I am one of the last "Friends" he has who is prepared to listen to him reliving his past because his future is so dull (but that is just how old age is).

  I finally got off the phone to him when I said I just had to go before my lunch got cold. It was two slices of cheese on toast. Now I am finishing writing this after I have eaten lunch. That is a first, and I hope it is going to be the last. My plans for today, as terribly vague as they were, are now all in turmoil. Once I have finished writing this, and uploaded to my web server, I will still have a lie down as I usually do - except it is usually a couple of hours earlier.

  Once I have had what will hopefully, but doesn't need to be, a short rest, I will have a shower, and I ought to wash my hair this time. After that I may go out for a walk. I feel I ought to have one, but in an hours time it may start raining. My original thoughts were that I might go for a walk, and be back home before it rains. I don't think I have any idea now about what I might do today. If I am very lucky, and the sun is still shining later, I may still go for a walk around the park, but I can't imagine anything better than that, and I am having a hard time even imagining that much !