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Monday 29th September 2025
 09:11 BST
 
Most of yesterday was quite dull, although there were a few short sunny spells in the early morning, and as the sun was setting. No rain was shown on the forecast, but there was quite a lot of light rain or fine drizzle in the middle of the day. The temperature only rose to 16° C but, again, under the grey sky it felt colder.
BBC_weather forecast
  The weather warning on the chart above, refers to mist and fog. None is actually shown on this BBC chart, but the Met Office forecast shows mist from sunrise to 11am. It is quite misty now, and earlier on it did seem like it was thick enough to be called light fog. Somewhere above that fog, but below cloud level, it may be bright and sunny, but there is not a hint of the sunshine shown on the weather chart. Maybe the fog will lift in time for some sunshine before the sky clouds over. Today may be completely dry, except for condensation from the mist and fog, and the temperature may even reach 18° C, but if the fog has not lifted it will feel a very chilly 18° C. No mist or fog is forecast for tomorrow, and it should be dry with some sunny spells and even some full sunshine. That should allow the temperature to rise to 19° C for maybe a single hour in the afternoon.   

   Yesterday was one of those days that was both good and bad. The bad was mostly, but not entirely booze related, but more about this and other things later. Some of the bad was the not very friendly weather, and it was probably worse because it didn't seem so bad until properly checked.

  I don't think much happened yesterday morning, or if it did I can't seem to remember any more than having some breakfast of one single, medium large bag/pack of instant noodles followed by writing yesterday's piece. There was also the measuring my health readings, and being satisfied that everything had returned back to normal after the weirdness of my first, far too small, dose of Mounjaro (it make me wonder what will happen when I take the first full dose - probably today).

  After I had finished writing I had a rest, but I can't seem to remember if thatw as long or short. I know that after that I went to the bathroom (English version, for washing, and not the American version for going to the toilet). It was cold in the bathroom, and I decided it was too cold to wash my hair. Fortunately my hair didn't seem too bad after a good brush. I just had a shower, and then got part dressed once dry.

  The next thing I did was to have a quick tidy of the kitchen.....actually, it wasn't so quick because I took out some spoiling fruit to the garden waste bin. I also picked up a lot of paper plates I had used for cat food. Those plates still had traces of food on them, and were probably going smelly, although I did not seem to notice that. I wrapped them well in a bin liner, and put them in the kitchen waste bin, and then took that, plus the recycling bin, out to the wheelie bins.

  After giving the work surfaces a quick wipe down it seemed to be about time to prepare some lunch. I think I might have decided the day before that I would have cheese on toast for lunch yesterday. I made two slices, and one had some sandwich (brown) pickle under the melted cheese, and the other had pickled and sliced red chillies. It may have been just a delusion, but I thought cheese on toasted sourdough bread would be "safe" (low sugar and maybe even low calorie), although this morning I have some strong doubts about it.

  I have no idea why, but yesterday morning seemed to slip by effortlessly, and it did not seem long before Jodie arrived for a beer tasting session. At least one beer was very unpleasant, and I only had one mouthful. It was fruity and sour, and so Jodie thought it was great. At least one other beer was an imperial stout type, and I am sure that it was very syrupy, and probably loaded with sugar. Other beers may have had more sugar than is ideal for me.

  To make matters worse, I opened a big bag of German Pilsner flavoured crisps. I don't think they tasted like beer at all, but they did have a very pleasant savoury taste. I shared them with Jodie, but she had other beer snacks. I ended up eating most of those crisps, and that was another bad idea yesterday. In the last half hour before Jodie left, I cooked my dinner. It was "burnt ends of beef". It was some sort of American idea, and maybe, once upon a time, they would cook up the more charred bits of a barbecue.

  I detected nothing burnt about the beef, but it was probably steam cooked to make it very soft with no gristly bits. By itself it may have had a very low sugar content, but towards the end of cooking I poured on a sachet of BBQ sauce, and that was based on syrup - probably the really unhealthy corn syrup so beloved of American food producers. I didn't let that stop me enjoying it.

  I should have had it with green vegetables and maybe potatoes - it would have been the only way it could have served two - as suggested on the box. The only vegetables I had it with was crisps !

 I must interrupt myself here: It has just gone 10am, and the sun has just broken through, and burnt off the mist and fog. It is still only about 12° C outside, but it is looking almost nice outside.

  After finishing that dinner I should not have felt the need to eat more, but I sort of fancied something like a little chunk of cheese to nibble on while watching TV prior to going to bed. I opened the fridge to get the cheese, but spotted something else. It was a ready to eat pack of "Nacho Cheese Croquettes". I had bought them because they looked intriguing, although I had no idea what they would be like. After eating the whole lot I concluded they were nice, but maybe not so nice as to justify eating so many.

  I can't seem to remember what I watched on TV last night, but I do remember spending increasing amounts of time reading some technology news items. I think it was around 9pm when I went to bed. If I recall correctly, I was not feeling that comfortable, but I did fall asleep for half an hour, or maybe a full hour. I woke up to the realisation that the rich food I had eaten had given my heartburn.

  Going out from my warm bedroom to the bathroom made it feel worse and more like the start of Angina. I am sure I had a pee in the bathroom, and I sat down on the toilet afterwards. I think it was only some wind that I passed. Back in my bedroom I had some Rennies, and they helped a bit, but I still had an angina like pain in my upper right arm. Past experience told me that a squirt of GTN spray would relieve the arm pain, and other pains I was experiencing.

  I probably spent a couple of hours sorting myself out when I should have been sleeping. That included a couple of visits to the toilet because I also had some lower discomfort. It seemed to be mostly gas, but I think I passed some solids as well. At the end of that hour or two I fell into a deep sleep, and for the first time in ages I woke up a fair bit later than usual.

  When I finally got up I discovered the folly of the beer and it's effect on my diet. My weight had shot up, although thankfully, another productive visit to the toilet, both pee and poo, after counting out my drugs and vitamins for today, helped to make it less of a disaster I still ended up 900gm heavier - and that is a lot ! It is also rather depressing - a lot of hard work gone to waste. The answer should be to cut out the booze, but I won't be doing that on Thursdays and Sundays.

  My blood glucose was a bit of a disaster as well. The Contour meter read a really terrible, and dangerous reading of 10.8mmol/l. The GlucoRX meter read just 8.3mmol/l. It is impossible for my blood to change over the course of about 20 seconds, and so one of those readings is an error. To make it more perplexing, the GlucoFix meter read 9.6mmol/l - sort of halfway between the other two.

  With figures like that I should have skipped breakfast, but I do like something to hold down the cod liver oil capsule I take every morning. The best think I could think of was a small amount of peanuts - about a level handful (probably). So far I have not had any fishy burps. The peanuts oil content means their calorific value is quite high, but they contain very little, almost no sugar.

  I don't really feel like it - I feel like going back to bed, but I ought to try and walk off some of the excess of last night. I had thought a walk in the fog might have been nice, but it has gone now. That does mean I could take a walk in the sunshine, and that could be good, but also bad. The air is cold enough to make wearing a light coat desirable, but I know I will cook inside a black leather coat in the sunshine. Tricky !

  The other thing I ought to do today is to take my first full dose of Mounjaro. I am unsure how I will feel after it, and I think it best to do it after I have come home (if I do go out for a walk). In theory it should stop things like the excesses of last night, but I am not so sure. My desire for eating comes from my brain, and not my stomach, and Mounjaro acts on the stomach (or sort of).
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