08:49 BST

   Yesterday was a dull day, but it was dry, and was almost mild with much of the afternoon 17° C. There were a few sunny spells at 6pm - just as the sun was about to set. The forecast said that by 2am, the next day, the temperature would be down to 10° C.   This morning has started at 10° C, and strong sunshine (well maybe not that strong while the sun was so low in the sky). We can hope for sunny spells for the rest of today, and the afternoon temperature should reach 17° C. Tomorrow will start, and remain cloudy. That means that the day will start at about 12° C, a degree or two higher than today, but afternoon will still only reach 17° C. Under a dull grey sky that could feel quite cool. The only saving grace may be that the wind looks like it could be very light, and there is currently zero chance of any rain.

  Yesterday didn't happen - or I didn't end up writing anything. I did start to write, but I got off to a late start, and then I got a message from my sister asking how I was. I didn't have to reply there and then, but with some recent medical stuff to write about I sat down to tell her about Mounjaro, how useful my GTN spray is, and how I had suffered from what was probably an inner ear problem (maybe from a build up from hard wax - which I have softened using oil in the ear, and it does seem to have helped a lot).

  By the time I had finished my reply to her email it was already getting a bit late. I can't seem to remember if it was before or after when I had a shower. I was wary of showering because one dizzy spell could be a disaster while standing in the bath. I did have one momentary bit of doubt, but it came to nothing, and I ended up having a good scrub under the shower. It will be washing my hair that will be the acid test. Leaning over the bath is a very unstable position, and the position itself seemed to bring on the dizzyness/vertigo/lightheadedness in double quick time.

  I did wonder how I would fare walking through the park on my usually regular Wednesday visit to The Jolly Farmers. It would be very embarrassing to have a dizzy spell while walking in the park, or anywhere else for that matter.  Fortunately I was fine, although I did experience a sort of odd feeling that might have felt like the prelude to a dizzy spell. That may have happened twice, but went as quickly as it came.

  It was also an interesting test to see if low blood pressure might have been involved in the dizzy spells I have had. It is not easy testing my blood pressure with the room appearing to spin around, but I did test it soon after, and unsurprisingly it was high - stress always make the blood pressure high. Before I started walking I had a spray from my GTN spray, and that does tend to lower the blood pressure a bit. There is a man I talk to in the pub that can't use GTN spray because it lowers his blood pressure too much, and he faints.

  I definitely had no problem like that, and I seemed to be able to walk quite fast. The section of screenshot from my mobile phone on the left shows the distance and speed of my walks, but unfortunately it puts the walk to the pub below the walk back home.

  The walk to the pub started at 12:34, and I used a slightly more direct route which is apparently only 0.664 miles. I think that is incorrect, and I forgot to take the tracker off pause for a 100ft or something. I expect that would affect the average walking speed, but I think I'll accept the stated 2.938 mph because it is rather good for me these days.


   Back in the days when I used to meet Angela in the pub, and I was both fit and healthy (by my own standards) and obviously keen to get there, I used to reckon I could make it to the pub in 15 minutes. Yesterday I seemed to make it in a new record of 13 minutes and 33 seconds. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of that, but it did feel I was making good progress. It is notable that I didn't stop to take any pictures on the way to the pub, and that must be thanks to pre-loading with GTN spray.

  I also had a spray of GTN when I started walking back from the pub, and maybe another quick spray along the way (but I am unsure about that). The walk home took an extra 5 minutes, but I did stop to take pictures on the way home, and that could account for the extra time if, as I think I may well have done, I forgot to pause he tracker every time I stopped. It was notable that I didn't arrive home feeling like I was on my last legs as is occasionally the case.

  The speed and other stuff about the walk home is all the remarkable because I had an extra pint of Guinness while I was in the pub (three it total). A gut full of Guinness swilling around usually seems to slow me down a lot. Yesterday's visit to the pub was not an exceptionally good one, but I think it was one of the better ones. There was some good banter, and thatw as probably because the pub was a bit quieter than usual, and that gave Ayse more opportunities to regale us with tales of her misdeeds and stuff. (Not actually serious misdeeds, but she had some adventure when she was a bus driver).

  I must admit it would have been tempting to stay for another Guinness, or maybe a short or two, but I definitely didn't fancy walking home through the park while very drunk. Three pints was just enough to loosen me up a bit. As I said a bit up the page, I stopped several times to take pictures on the way home.
  The tree in the middle of this picture looked like it was covered in yellow flowers from a distance, but it soon became obvious it was just bright yellow leaves.It looked like the best picture could be taken from the other side of the fence around Ladywell Arena, and it is possible I could have gone in there, but that would also mean taking the picture facing the sun, and that doesn't usually work well.
  It is a shame that there are no good stands of trees of the same type, and a type that gives the most glorious autumn colours. To do that I will have to, and may actually take a bus to Keston where the common has many such stands of trees, and many hang over the big ponds there for added beauty.
  it seemed interesting how this tree had yellow leaves at the top while the bottom still looked nice and green. All these tree pictures were taken in the small strip of park between Ladywell Arena and the road.

  From the trees to my front door is just a couple of minutes walk. I was going to say I was glad to get home, but only for two reasons. One reason was that unless I kept moving it was feeling a bit cool to be out in just a t-short and no coat, and the other reason was related to that. I was thinking how nice it would be to have some hot soup when I got home, and I did indeed have two cans of hot soup for my very late lunch.

  I didn't really do much after that late lunch except have a lie down, and I think I had a snooze. Nothing really happened after that until it was both dinner and TV time. I keep thinking I had cheese on toast for dinner, but maybe that was the day before. I know I definitely had a small Shepherds Pie ready meal for the main part of my dinner, and I ate it while watching the BBC 6 O'clock news.

  From then on I mostly watched TV until the last programme I wanted to watch finished at 11pm and I went straight to bed. As far as I can recall I fell asleep very quickly, and then slept soundly, or almost soundly until I woke up at the ridiculous time of about 4:45am. I had woken up once in the night for a pee, and I had one at 4:45am, but it was as if I wanted to get up at that time as well. I certainly took a long time before I could get back to sleep (where "a long time" may have been no more than half an hour, or possibly even less).

  When I did feel it really was time to get up, a little after 7am I think, I went to the toilet, but only peed. It was only just now, just after 11am, when I had a poo - another rather hard, and uncomfortable to push out, poo. It is a shame that poo didn't happen until after breakfast because it would have surely have knocked 100 to 200gm off my weight. This morning I have once again put weight on instead of taking it off. I am 500gm heavier than yesterday.

  While the Mounjaro injections do not seem to help me lose weight, they are still doing wonders for my morning blood glucose measurements. The Contour meter read 7.1mmol/l. That is pretty good, but the GlucoRX meter was even better with a nice low figure of 6.3mmol/l. I think I may make 6.5mmol/l my new target, and that reading would have been lower than my target. The usually very kind GlucoFix meter read 7.2mmol/l. That is still good in my book, but on this occasion the worst reading.

  After just after 1pm yesterday Amazon tried to deliver my latest order of some bottles of Jameson Whiskey. Usually they deliver much later in the afternoon - usually well late enough to be home from the pub. Maybe "usually" is getting a lot earlier now. Needless to say it was most annoying to miss my delivery. It should be out for delivery again today, but as yet I have had no notification of this. I wonder whether it is going to be one of their extra annoying "before 9pm" type deliveries.

  I had hoped to fit in a quick shower this morning, but that well known gas bag Lee dragged another 90% pointless phone call out for 44 minutes while I was trying to write this piece. Once again almost all the morning has evaporated. I have a feeling I will be having a quick flannel wash today instead of a shower. Later on this afternoon I should be joined by Jodie, possibly Alan, and probably Michael for some more beer tasting. I ought to try to be  clean and fragrant enough before I am joined by the others. Maybe I could take a chance on a quick shower if Amazon have not notified me my order is out for delivery soon.