10:03 BST

   Yesterday was another sunny day, or at least a fair amount of it was. It was also warm with the temperature peaking at 19° C. It did cool down quite a lot after dark - which started at 6:27pm. The days are getting shorter and shorter !
  The cloud seems too thick to let any sunshine through, but maybe it will break up soon. The temperature today peaks at  18° C at 6pm, and coincidently it is the single hour when we may get full sunshine - if the forecast is correct (which seeing as it says sunny spells now, and it is light grey instead, it is unlikely). Tomorrow may start at just 11° C, and until early evening, there will be no sign of the sun (a bit like today). After a grey day the temperature tomorrow may only peak at 17° C, and may not reach that until 4pm.

  Yesterday was a different sort of day to many recent days. It could have easily been boring, and I would end up doing nothing. Fortunately I found I fell down a big hole, and didn't surface again until dinner time. The big hole was Wikipedia (dot com), and what started as a simple query ended up with me following endless links to related information.

  I suppose I could describe yesterday morning as disappointing. I did have thoughts about going for a walk - either a short walk for shopping, or perhaps a longer walk for exercise. I even considered doing some laundry, but I didn't do any of these. Once I had finished writing yesterday's 2,324 words I laid on my bed and rested. That included a bit of reading, and some thinking. I was thinking about the TV documentary I mentioned yesterday (or the day before).

  As I wrote (whenever it was) I was happy that the American made documentary was very complimentary about the famous Supermarine Spitfire (the WW2 fighter aircraft), but for heavy bombers they only praised the Boeing B29 "Superfortress", and ignored the far more beautiful, and more capable Lancaster bomber. I decided I ought to see what I could find about the two to compare them.

  One of the things I wanted to do yesterday was to ignore the Mounjaro drug, and lose a bit of weight the only way I know how (or actually one of two ways).  My lunch was the tried and tested rice crackers and cheese, and together with some pickled cornichons, it was a very nice, and very safe lunch. It was so light a lunch that I only rested for maybe half an hours (and even that was not needed) before curiosity got the better of me.

  I couldn't give accurate answers about what I knew of the Lancaster bomber, but I had a fair overview of it.  I knew almost nothing about the American B29 bomber, and so I looked up that first on Wikipedia. It's bomb carrying capacity was very similar - so similar, but with the Lancaster having a slight edge, that the Yanks considered it for dropping the first nuclear weapons on Japan, but they decided only an American plane could have the dubious honour of that.

  In simplified terms, the B29 was the transit van of the day - obviously a flying version. It could carry a lot, and that was about it. If you wanted a specialist delivery you needed a specialist aircraft - the Lancaster, If you wanted a beautiful aircraft you needed a Lancaster and not a dirty white van driven by a grubby builder. All this research, even if only a brief overview, took about half an hour, but then I made the silly mistake of looking up some of British WW2 bombers.

  There were several bombers at the end of WW2 made by competing British aircraft manufacturers. Each had it's plus points. Some were faster, and some had a greater survivability against being shot up by machine gun and cannon. Some had greater range, or could carry heavier loads (the Lancaster !). It could be argued that having competing designs was not as economical as having a standard design, with the economies of scale that could bring. However, as any engineer, or carpenter will tell you, it is best to have the right tool for the job, and each of the different bombers was the right tool for their jobs.

  I didn't "resurface" from Wikipedia until almost 5pm. It passed a whole afternoon in an enjoyable way, and it was enjoyable enough to completely distract me from any temptations for snacks and stuff. It was not a long wait until dinner time. I ate my dinner while watching the BBC 6 O'clock news on the BBC News channel instead of BBC 1 (which I think may have been showing sport or strictly come Eurovision song war (or something). (I may be confusing last night with the night before due to a low emission brain cell).

  My dinner was not specifically healthy, but was possibly better than some. It was a Lamb Keema - minced lamb in a spicy sauce with diced potato and peas. It sounds like it should be with all the other curry based ready meals in Tesco, but is in a separate section - possibly Halal foods, or maybe not. I don't know (I ought to see what common theme they have). I am unsure, but the box may say it feeds two, and maybe with rice and vegetable side dishes, etc, it would, but by itself it is merely snack sized (by my distorted standards).

  I felt it definitely needed to be followed by a dessert, and I had a crazy idea for dessert. it was probably specifically crazy in so much that it included a small can of prunes that must have been a long way after their use by date. The can looked unblemished, but those prunes did seem to have a hint of a metallic taste about them. That was probably made worse by eating them with a big dollop of ice cream.

  I did do one thing to slightly lessen the high sugar content of those prunes. The can said they came in syrup (or maybe it just said "juice". I partly washed the prunes by rinsing off some of the "juice", although I have doubts it made that much difference, and particularly so because I did not want to wash away all the nice tasting juice. Once upon a time I would have believed that prunes and ice cream would have been a lethal combination in terms of controlling sugar intake. I had hoped they would be lethal in terms of a counter against constipation......I am still waiting !

  For the rest of the evening I watched the usual Star Trek offerings (the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine), and then I watched both QI and Have I Got News For You. Once again I did not get to bed until almost 11pm. Like recent night I did not bother to try and read, but turned over, and I was soon fast asleep. After the ice cream and prunes I was expecting my blood glucose to be high enough that I would be going for a large pee every 2 hours through the night. Oddly enough it was not that bad, and even when I did go for a pee it was not a very big one.

  I can almost remember having a dream last night, but I think the memory of that was partly erased to make room for a memory of what happened twice this morning. It was about 5am when I woke up to find the room whirling round. I had not drunk any booze so it was not "the whirlies" that were so common among our early drinking days. I feel sure it was some sort of inner ear problem.

  Once I was standing up by my bed the room slowed and stopped, and I was able to walk to the toilet with no hint of any unsteadyness. I was slightly wary about going back to sleep again in case it happened again. I did get to sleep, and it did happen again when I woke up a couple of hours late. This time, because I was half expecting it, I could retain just enough objectivity to make me think it only happened after sleeping on my right side (instead of my normal left).

  I don't know if the pressure of the pillow on the side of my head, on the right side, was relevant or not, but it made me suspect the problem may have been in my right ear. I have had hints of some wax in that ear, although not enough to noticeably affect my hearing, but maybe a hollow ring of wax is putting pressure where it shouldn't. It is a messy job, but I expect to be washing my hair this morning, and I'll put some oil in my right ear, and see what happens.

  My attempts to get back on my old diet, and so actually lose some weight, seem to have worked. I did pee a couple of time before finally weighing myself. If I could have had the poo that I expected the prunes to guarantee, I may have weighed less, but so far all I've passed is some gas. Only now, quite a few hours later, am I getting the feeling that something is moving. Sadly it is too late now because I have had breakfast. My weight before breakfast was a rather good 600gm less than yesterday.

  I did have doubts about how my body would get on with the rather sweet prunes and ice cream last night. This mornings readings were not quite as good, but the Mounjaro was still doing it's stuff. The Contour Meter read a good 7.4mmol/l. The GlucoRX meter read an even better 7.2mmol/l. The new GlucoFix meter was not as good, but 7.8mmol/l is still in the light green on my spreadsheet code, and well good enough.

  As mentioned further up the page, one of the things I will be doing today is to wash my hair, and also have a shower. Washing my hair is now needed because I now have almond oil in it after my ear over flowed when filling it in the hope it will soften any wax in it. It will also save time tomorrow when I will be going out to the pub, and it will be nice to have clean hair when among friends. I definitely need a shower today after not having one yesterday.

  Later on I may well go out shopping. The afternoon is (currently) forecast to be bright and sunny (or at least sunny spells). It could possibly temp me out for a walk (but I doubt it). I may possible wash some underwear and t-shirts today, but I will definitely have to force myself to finish it today so the bath is free for a shower tomorrow morning. Perhaps the most important thing today is that I will be having my next, self injected, Mounjaro jab.

  One note about this morning: I have lived here for 42 or so years, and in all that time I can't recall finding a big spider in the kitchen sink before the first time this very morning. It had possibly fallen from the ceiling (I have read that is how spiders end up in bath tubs), and it had fallen in a glass bowl that was half full of water. The side would have been too slippery to climb out, and I suspect it may have drowned (I assume spiders can drown). It put up no resistance when I flushed it down the plughole !













   Another thing I almost forgot to include was this picture of a small bag of cheese and Marmite Puff. Each 16.5gm bag contains a mere 84 calories, and a mere 0.5gm of sugars. I have no guilt at all about having two bags for a snack yesterday evening.