09:55 BST

  Despite the warm(ish) wind last night, this morning started at just 14° C. The main feature of today's weather is very strong winds. Most hours, until 8pm when the winds should die down, will see winds of 40 to 45 mph. The wind will keep the clouds broken up, and there should be loads of sunny spells today, and the temperature should feel mild despite it only peaking at 18° C - however the latest revision to the forecast now shows the high as being just 17° C. The headline for tomorrow says "Sunny intervals and a moderate breeze". There is not a lot to add to that except to say the afternoon high may be 18° C.

    Yesterday seemed to be quite a pleasant and even enjoyable day. Of course there were always set back like another attempted long phone call from Lee, but at 11am I forced the call to an end because I had so much to do. For one thing I had to try and think up captions for all the pictures I showed yesterday.

  It was around midday when I finished writing yesterday's piece, and I had so much more to do. I was expecting visitors so I needed a shower, and I also washed my hair. Once I was clean, and dressed, I had a pile of washing up in the sink to do, as well as other cleaning/tidying in the kitchen and dining room. I wondered how I would get it all done, but somehow I did it with time to spare.

  No a lot happened then until Jodie arrived for the beer tasting. She rummaged through the two small beer fridges and said there was not a lot in them that I would probably like, but also said that she and Alan would definitely enjoy some of those that I would hate. I think the fist can Jodie opened I would use her word to describe such beers - minging ! After a while we joined by fluffy cat. He was after food, but I saw my neighbour put food down for him in her garden only a couple of hours later.

  I still fed fluffy cat, now tentatively identifies as a Maine Coone cat, or at least very, very similar. That identification was made by Alan who joined us an hour or two later. Fluffy cat is a very friendly cat, and he delighted in having 3 friends there to talk to - me, Jodie and Alan. He almost sat on Alan's lap, but like most cats, would much prefer it is you worse a dress instead of having a big gap between the legs.

  At one point, after I had gone to rinse out a couple of glasses, Fluffy cat jumped up on my chair, and made himself very comfortable. I only verbally told him it was my chair, and of course he completely ignored me. What he could not ignore was that there is a big gap under the chair back, and upon having a big wriggle, probably to show off to his new friend, ha fell down the back of the chair, and I was able to sit in my own  chair again.

  With the cat and Alan there I was able to have a conversation while Jodie ignored us all to scroll through her phone looking for pictures of cats or squirrels. It made it a much nicer session being able to have some sort of conversation. At this point I remember that I have not mentioned my pre-drinking, stomach lining, lunch. It was two "Kimchi burgers". They were very weird, and it was hard to tell if they were cooked enough.

  Those burgers may have been vegetarian because they seemed to based on mashed potato with other vegetables mixed in. Some of the vegetables were quite spicy, but not really that hot. It was worth trying them, but I found little pleasure in them, and I doubt I will ever buy more of them. I mainly mention them now because after the drinking was over, I had "Frikadellen", or basically pork burgers with a lot of onion in them.

  After I had eaten my dinner I watched some TV, actually quite a few hours of it. Then I went to bed. I was feeling like I had made a mistake even before I went to bed. Once I was laying on my bed, with no distractions, I realised the Kimchi burgers and the Frikadellen were having a bad effect on me - heartburn ! It was already quite late, but I had to get up to munch some antacid tablets. At one point the heart burn was so strong that I wondered if it was real heart ache.

  The test was to have a squirt of my anti angina, Glyceryl Trinitrate spray. Apart from a stinging sensation under my tongue, and feeling my heart rate change, (presumably) my blood pressure dropping, and getting a bit of a headache, the spray did nothing more. That proved that it was just indigestion/heartburn. I chewed a couple more different antacid tablets, and also some paracetamol.
 
  At first it seemed that nothing had happened because it seemed to happen so slowly, but I suddenly realised I felt fine, but very sleepy. Before I could surrender to sleep I needed a pee, and passed a lot of wind. I thought just the stink of it meant that I needed a poo, but it was just wind (until this morning). I'm sure it was after midnight before I fell asleep. I know I got up once for another quite big pee, but most of the night passed with no memories or sensations. I was as good as dead to the outside world.

  I woke up about my usual time, but I hadn't had much sleep. I did take a bit of time to weigh myself after going for a pee, and also refresh the weather forecasts so I could take screen shots later, but straight after I easily managed to go back to sleep again. I didn't have a long sleep in, but it was a lot later than usual before I got up again. I think I deserved to get up extra late.

  This time I went to the toilet and passed more pee, and also a fair sized poo. I weighed myself again, a made that my official morning record. That showed I had put on just 100gm since yesterday morning. Just one more small pee may have changed that to no increase and possibly a small loss, but a gain of 100gm is nothing to get desperate about.

  My blood glucose was not as good as hoped for. All readings were in the sort of meh ! good enough region. The Contour meter read 8.7mmol/l. That is a bit higher than I like, but still acceptable. The GlucoRX meter read 8.5mmol/l. That used to be my target until I found I could often do better, and so is sort of neither here nor there. The new GlucoFix meter read 8.1mmol/l, and while that was the best of the three, I was still really looking for a figure starting with a 7 or even a 6.

  At the moment I am trying to relax enough to get my blood pressure a bit low - which is an impossible thing to do while still typing. On my first reading my blood pressure was 130/51. That seems high to me, but the meter says it is "High Normal", and is the sort of reading my last doctor said she would expect (and accept). A second reading, after almost falling asleep reading some stuff about Windows 11, was pretty much the same. I guess my blood pressure is indeed "High Normal" this morning.

  Apart from a lie down, and almost certainly a snooze that might be short or long, I really don't know what I am doing today - beyond some simple housework. I do have some washing up to do, and it would probably be a good time to wash a few clothes, but there is nothing I have to do, and not really anything I want to do. While the sun is out, and with only some light rain possible at 2 and 3pm, it seems like it could be good to go for a walk somewhere, but I have doubts I will. Maybe today is just a day for relaxing. Well, that sounds good enough for me - even if it does nothing for my weight.