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  Yesterday started damp, but at 12° C it was not very cold. The afternoon featured some sunny spells, and the temperature briefly peaked at 16° C. At sunset the temperature fell to 14° C, and it stayed close to that all night long.
  Despite what the forecast says, I feel sure I saw at least one brief sunny spell this morning, and maybe more, but it is very definitely grey outside as I write this. The temperature seemed to stay flat through the night, and today started where yesterday finished at 14° C. The temperature may rise to 15° C at 11am, and then fall back to 14° C at 2pm. There may be a couple of sunny spells this afternoon. From 4pm no rain is actually shown, but the chance of rain rises to 15%, and then slowly rises until it hits 50% at 8pm when rain is actually shown on the forecast. Tomorrow may start at 15° C, but rise to 16° C for the afternoon. It will then drop back to 15° C. A lot of tomorrow may feature sunny spells.

  Compared to the day before, yesterday was a rather boring day, although that is not to say it was a day when I did nothing. I must admit I didn't do much, and I probably only achieved one important thing. Maybe that could be broken down to several smaller, but linked things.

  After writing, and my usual post writing rest, I think I had a shower, but I didn't do one thing I wanted to do - wash my hair. I can't seem to think of the reason I didn't wash my hair. I did have some ideas that I might go for another walk in the park, but that never happened. I got sidetracked by another project. That was mostly trying to dry out the carpet behind the toilet bowel.

  The day before I speeded things up a bit by using a fan heater on it's lowest setting to blow warm air towards the back of the toilet bowl. As I noted yesterday, the drying carpet was giving of some pretty stinky odours - with old piss being the worst stink. I do my best to avoid my pee going anywhere but into the toilet bowl, but there are occasional misses, and over the last 40 years it al adds up.

  With the carpet now almost dry, but sadly not completely, the stink has reduced. Yesterday I went back to just using a desk fan, and that helped to lessen the stink, but I fear the only real cure is to replace the carpet. All carped in my hose was laid down when I first moved here at the end of 1983, and in an ideal world I would replace it all. As I mentioned a day or two ago, it is going to be a right bugger to do that in my cluttered rooms. Back in 1983, very soon after moving in, there was no clutter, and it was easy to get a room completely empty. That made laying carpet a simple job - even for me who had never done it before (although I was tutored by a friend when I laid the very first carpet in the front room).

  Probably the most important thing I did yesterday was to get conclusive evidence that the only source of the leaked water was from the gland at the top of the downpipe, at the bottom of the cistern. That gland nut is just about siezed, and I dare not try to undo it before I have a replacement at hand because it will probably break (it is plastic). If I can undo it I will pack out the entire joint with PTFE tape. That makes most joints watertight.

  In the meantime I have added a second drip tray to catch the drips closer to the source, although in practice that means catching them dripping off the down pipe as it goes level to take the water into the toilet bowl flush channel. Provided I keep an eye on it, and don't let it overflow like the other drip tray, it should keep things dry for now, and until I can find the bits I need for a permanent fix.

  I guess playing with the plumbing only took a little bit of the afternoon. I spent some time snoozing, and more time reading. I also took time out for some lunch. I must have been very distracted yesterday because I can't remember what I had for lunch. I am tempted to say cheese on toast, but I feel sure that was the day before. I know that I did have a mid afternoon snack that was mostly ice cream - a very yummy in the extreme, lemon and pistachio flavour !

  I spent a fair time in the afternoon quietly reading from my current book, but also some stuff on the internet. It did not seem to be all that long before it was time to prepare my dinner.  That just meant opening the packet, and putting a ready meal in the microwave. It was very slightly tough small cubes of chicken in a black bean sauce. Apart from the chicken being more chewy than expected, it was quite nice, but not wonderful.

  I had intended to have a dessert of just fresh fruit after my main course, but I seemed to forget I had intended to have the fruit. I am positive I never had any ice cream, and my "dessert" may have just been a chunk of cheese and a packet of plain crisps. I must admit that was a very strange dessert, but it evidently satisfied because I didn't eat any more until breakfast this morning.

  I spent the rest of the evening watching the usual sort of stuff on TV. I think I decided not to watch TV until 11pm and gave up to go to bed at 10pm. I was quite looking forward to sleep, but I stopped to read a page or two from my book before turning out the light. I remember almost nothing after that, and I assume I must have fallen to sleep very quickly. Apart from the usual getting up to pee several times in the night (more than once, and less than 4 times - at a guess) I can't think of anything else notable in the night.

  It seems to be getting a very silly habit, but once again I woke up earlier than it felt good to get up. I had a pee, refreshed the weather forecast so I could take screen shots late, and then went back to bed and got at least another hour of sleep. Maybe even that was not enough because I am looking forward to finish this writing so I can go and lay on my bed to rest, and more than likely have a snooze too.

  When I got up a second time I went for a second pee, but maybe because I didn't have my fruit last night, I did not have a poo. I did pass a lot of wind, and that seemed to be enough that I don't feel constipated despite passing nothing but gas. When I weighed myself after that second pee (a quite large one) I was happy to see that I seemed to have lost 200gm since yesterday morning. It may not be much, but 5 days of that would see a full kilogram last.

  When I checked my blood glucose readings I found the average of all three meters was 7.77mmol/l. That is OK, but a bit higher than I would want. The Contour meter read 8.2mmol/l - neither good nor bad. The GlucoRX meter read 7.2mmol/l, and that is fairly good. The new GlucoFix meter read a disappointing 7.9mmol/l. When brand new, that meter seemed to give the lowest readings, but now it has crept up to sometimes equal, and sometime higher than the other two. I wonder why ?

  While I have the spare fan heater, and long extension lead handy, I am going to blow some warm air into the bathroom, and after it has warmed for maybe half an hour, I am going to wash my hair, and have a shower. With clean hair I should only need quick shower tomorrow before I hope I will be going for my usually regular Wednesday lunchtime visit to The Jolly Farmers pub (last Wednesday I let the horrible rain keep my indoors in the dry). Once I have had a shower, and I am clean, I will be injecting myself with the first dose of the next strength up Mounjaro. Maybe, or maybe not, but the higher strength may bring on more weight loss attributes because the lowest dose has not been successful at all (except for keeping my blood glucose low for most [but not all] days).

  If it stays dry, and maybe if it brightens up, I may go out. My only destination may be Savers where I want to buy more shower gel, and maybe other stuff too. I don't feel I will go much further than that. It is possible that today may be slightly boring, but we'll see.

 









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