09:29 BST

   Yesterday featured a lot of sunshine, although much of it was as sunny spells. It was a dry day, and the temperature peaked at 16° C. The temperature was forecast to fall to 11° C before midnight, but I think there was just enough cloud to stop it falling too far.   By my reckoning, checking all 3 of my outside thermometers, it was more like 13° C than the forecast 11° C start to the day. The sky was clear, and still is. That should have meant two things - a very cold start, that didn't happen, and full on sunshine this morning, and that did, and is happening. The forecast says full sunshine was only supposed to start at midday. The extra sunshine may mean this afternoon could be even warmer than the very pleasant 19° C that is forecast. Once again it will be a completely dry day, as should tomorrow, but tomorrow may only see sunny spells instead of full sunshine. The current prediction shows a high of just 17° C for tomorrow.

  It would be easy to describe yesterday as another lazy day, and I suppose a lot of it was, but there were moment of activity - including one bit of activity that was most definitely unplanned and unwanted. As I wrote yesterday, I started the day feeling horrible - like a storm was approaching - but that seemed to fade after a while, and I could have done stuff, but didn't.

  As well as a mild, but annoying headache, and aching joints (not untypical if a storm was really on it's way - which it wasn't - my other less short lived malady was constipation. This was a common side effect of the Mounjaro medicine I am using, but maybe only because it can also happen when dieting - which is what Mounjaro is supposed to help with (I am having doubts about it). The constipation was more annoying than uncomfortable. As I noted yesterday, and will do so again later, it is hard to make plans that take you away from a toilet when you have an almost 100% certainty of needing a toilet sooner or later.

  I had breakfast, wrote yesterday's 2,752 words, and had a lie down before I managed to relieve the feeling of constipation. It was not actually painful, but it was definitely an uncomfortable process. It should have come as a great uplifting joy when that was over, but it was no much more than just "satisfactory". In theory I could have gone out after that, but I could no longer raise any enthusiasm to do so, and that was despite some nice sunshine or sunny spells.

  I just resumed being very lazy. I was aided by the knowledge that it was very unlikely that Jodie would make a last minute change to her plans, and visit for some exotic beer tasting. One bit of non laziness was emptying a few rubbish bins around the house. The bin outside my bedroom was almost overflowing, and the bin in the kitchen was getting a bit stinky. There is a small bin in the bathroom, and that is very full, but I didn't seem to think of emptying that one.

  All the bins had liner bags in them, and I just had to take those bin liners out to the wheelie bin in my front garden, and put fresh bin liners in the bins I had emptied. Very obviously that meant going out into my front garden, and that was not as simple as it sounds. I had trousers on, but no t-shirt. That was simply fixed, but there was still one big problem to overcome - a problem that would have given Jodie a screaming fit, or worse if she found it the hard way.
  During the night (or so I presume) some little 8 legged bastard had constructed a web designed to capture human faces. It was at head height, and made the front porch unpassable - until a long handled broom came into play. It took little effort, and only a smidgen of skill to completely clear this web. The spider was last seen running towards the fence, and may have made it through to next door to spin a new web across next doors porch.

  With the spiders web clear, I dumped the full bin liners in the wheelie bin, and could sort of relax again. I think I deserved a rest after going man to man with a big spiders web. I took the icture at just gone 1pm, but that is only what my camera reported. I suspect that the camera's internal clock could still be set to GMT, and it may have only been just after midday. Either way, it seemed time for some lunch.

  Regardless of how Mounjaro (the wonder slimming drug - allegedly) is supposed to work, I thought I felt hungry. Maybe tmy stomach didn't feel hungry, but that doesn't rule my life. my brain does, and it was telling me it would be nice to have a bite to eat. Having written that explanation, I now find my brain can't seem to remember what it did about it. I am certain I had something to eat, but I can't remember what it was.

  Errr, yes it can remember now. I had the second two flapjack bars I had bought from Poundstretcher the day before. In theory that should have been sufficient, but I may have had a small bag or two of Marmite puffs, or perhaps it was Cheese Toasty flavoured puffs....

  I remembered to take a picture of one of the small (16gm) bags of Cheese Toastie Wotsits. The nutritional info says each bag has only 76 calories, and the sugar content is just 0.7gm. In theory that are pretty safe when eaten in small quantities of maybe just one or two bags. I think the Marmite flavoured puffs are very similar.

  After such a light lunch I shouldn't have needed to have a lie down, and maybe a snooze, but I didn't have anything better to do. I don't think I actually snoozed (but I can't put hand on heart and swear to it). I did spend some time just quietly reading on my bed.

  Maybe I did have a snooze because I'm sure time seemed to slip by very quickly. It was almost as if time had flown by so quickly that it was hardly any time at all until it was dinner time. Time passing quickly was actually helped by doing a few more useful, or semi useful things.

  One such thing was some preparations for my dinner. I should have done it earlier, but I finally made one token effort at eating better in terms of more fibre, and so, in theory, improving my stools (the medical kind, not the ones you sit on at the bar) by having some  fruit. I spent a bit of time dicing up two apples, skin and all (but obviously not stalk and pips).

  The apples had been ripening for maybe a fortnight since I bought them and thought they were too unripe to eat - hard and extremely tart. The plan was to eat them with some ice cream for my dessert - a sort of mix of the healthy and unhealthy, or maybe a careful balance between the two.

  With the apples diced and covered to keep off flies, and although I didn't really think it would work, it did seem to stop them going brown, I considered other things. I could still have gone for a walk. It was dry, but I had missed the best of the sunshine, and maybe all of the sunshine. Worse was that some bits of the sky were looking to be dark and cloudy.
  It is easy to see where the sun was in this picture - the very bright area near the top, roughly in the centre of the picture. It does make some of the clouds look darker than they were to the naked eye, but even so, it did seem some of those clouds might be trouble if they drifted overhead.

  One interesting thing about this picture is the two bright lights one the building in the school, and near the bottom of the picture. I could not see those lights with my eyes, and so I conclude they are infra red floodlights for the CCTV cameras. This picture was taken with my mobile phone, and mobile phone cameras are quite good at seeing infra red.

  It would have stayed dry if I had gone for a walk, but it could still have been a dull and gloomy walk. They bring little enjoyment, and no matter how good a walk may have been for me, I find it very hard to go out unless I have a specific destination I have to get to, or I will be able to enjoy going out. In this case it would be no pleasure walking around under a grey looking sky in grey looking light.

  I spent some time on the internet, generally reading some technology news, and then it was dinner time. First of all there was more preparation to do. I had a small tube of ready cooked chicken thighs, but they are not so nice when cold, and I gave them about 20 minutes in the mini oven to heat up, cook more, and let some of the flavours of some mixed herbs and spices soak into the meat. I ate the whole lot - all 5 thighs.

  I was very aware that just eating meat was not good for my digestive tract as well as other health things. That is why I had spent the time earlier dicing the two nicely ripe apples. I ate them with a spoon from a bowl to which I had added a few big dollops of plain vanilla ice cream. It was not as nice as hoped for, but it wasn't bad at all, and I may do something similar in the future. I just hope that when all the apple, or at least the insoluble fibres, reach the other end, they are a good cure for constipation.

  There are no Star Trek episodes shown on a Sunday night, but I found enough stuff to watch on TV to keep me at least slightly amused until 11pm. Some of it was banal, and some of it was of interest, but sometimes annoyingly biassed. The latter was some programmes shown on the PBS America channel, and they were about developments during world war two - bombs, armour, ships, submarines and aircraft.

  The segment that annoyed me was about aircraft, and the strong bias towards American aircraft. I will give them their due - they did acknowledge the Supermarine Spitfire as a superb aircraft, and almost grudgingly admitted that for a time it was better than any contemporary American aircraft. What they didn't do was acknowledge even the existence of the famous Lancaster Bomber.

  They concentrated on some American bombers, and ignored what a wonderful aircraft the Lancaster was. It's geodesic construction meant it was almost invulnerable to bullet and shells, and it was said it would still get you home with big holes in it. On top of that it was considered the only aircraft capable of carrying the very heavy bombs used in the Dam Buster raids, and the even bigger bombs used to blow holes in the roof of the German U-Boat pens in France. It seems that no American bomber could handle the laods of these huge and heavy bombs.

  I then watched both QI and Have I Got News For You, but I was practically falling asleep during whichever was on last. I was in bed at 11pm, and it is possible I was fast asleep 2 minutes later. One thing I was hoping for was that my apple and ice cream dessert would make me pee a lot during the night. I don't think it did because the one thing that Mounjaro seems to be very good at is keeping my blood glucose low.

  When I got up at around 7am (I think) I did not have a big pee, and I did not have a poo. The result of this was that when I weighed myself I found I had put on 500gm instead of losing anything - again ! It was a couple of hours later that I did have a rather uncomfortable poo, and maybe this morning I am not constipated....and yet, maybe I might need to go again some time soon.

  I then checked my blood glucose, and once again it was nice and low, and that should have suggested I should have lost weight - but most definitely didn't ! The Contour meter read 7.0mmol/l - not as low as yesterday, but still pretty good. The GlucoRX meter read 7.00mmol/l as well, and also slightly higher than yesterday. The GlucoFix meter read 6.9mmol/l. and that is the same as yesterday. These are all good readings, and lower than I might have expected before taking Mounjaro.

  Time seems to be flying by, and not helped by another call from Lee. Fortunately it was not one of his mega long rambles, but still long enough to mean that as I write this it is already lunch time ! I did think I might go out to a shop or two today, and possibly even walk further, but now I am not sure I am going out at all. It feels like I've left it too late somehow. I guess it is still possible I may go out, and even possible it might be for a medium, or longer walk. However, experience  suggests another very lazy, and probably boring day today. One definite thing for tomorrow is my second injection, done by myself, of Mounjaro.