09:43 GMT

  The forecast says today will start with showers, but the last couple of hours have been sunny. There is a lot of thin cloud with plenty of blue patches in it, and it looks like this sunshine could last for some time. The only full sunshine actually forecast for today is shown for 3 and 4pm. Most of today will be 14° C, but the afternoon could be 15° C.  The temperature will drop a single degree, back to 14° C, and stay there all through the night. Much of tomorrow will also be 14° C, but once again the afternoon should see 15° C. There could be light showers at random times tomorrow, but from 8pm it could turn to heavy rain.

  Yesterday featured a few things worth noting, but it was hardly an exciting sort of day - except maybe a shopping trip. Then again, it also featured a lot of lazing around, and probably a snooze or two.

  After I finished writing I had a shorter rest than usual because I wanted to give myself my next Mounjaro injection. I had intended to do it after a shower when I was clean, but I used some alcohol hand sanitiser to clean the injection site. Now I have had some practice at doing these injections I did not anticipate any problems, but I did have a sort of problem. I thought the needle went in OK, but when I withdrew it the needle was bent. It is a very thin needle, and it is probably easy to bend it. I don't know if I hit something hard under the skin, or if I didn't keep it straight as I withdrew the needle, but it was certainly bent through almost a right angle. The Mounjaro seemed to go in OK, and as far as I can tell, it is working as expected.

  I rested for another 10 or 15 minutes after that, and then had a shower, and washed my hair. Once dressed I went out. It seemed a bit too cool to not wear a coat, and I put on one of my lightest coats - mostly to keep the cool wind out. My only destination was Poundstretcher, and I seemed to buy every thing I was hoping to buy.

  An important part of my shopping list was a couple of cheap plastic cereal bowls to use as cat feeding bowls, but they didn't have any. What they did have was proper cat feeding bowls in several shapes an sizes.  I bought two of those, and later on they got the seal of approval from Fluffy Cat. The other important thing on my shopping list was a new toilet brush and holder. The older one was made from cheap tin plate, and while it looked good originally, it was rusty, and even rusted through in one place, plus it was very smelly.

  The new toilet brush is a basic all plastic thing. That means it could be washable, although at just £6.99 I would tempted to just get a replacement if it got too shabby and smelly, or broken. This new one will be the third I have had since moving here 42 years ago. I guess I am not doing too bad.

  I did buy a few other things, mostly food, and that included the very nice, but apart from the possible fibre, very unhealthy flap jacks. I know I had one as part of my lunch, but I can't remember what else I had for lunch. It might have been rice crackers and cheese, but I could be confusing that with the previous day ..... although there is no reason I couldn't have it two, or more days running.

  After lunch I had a short lie down, but then I needed to get up again to go for a pee. While I was peeing I heard meowing, and I knew it was fluffy cat trying to get my attention. Out of curiosity I went into the back bedroom to look out the window to make sure it was him, and to make sure he wasn't "singing" to next door or something. I looked out and couldn't see him anywhere - until I looked up.

  I saw him casually strolling over the lower roof. I had long suspected that he had got onto next doors lower roof via the kitchen extension roof. I saw him leap from the top of the fence onto next doors kitchen extension, but I could not work out where he went once up there. I could see that using the back bedroom (if next door use it as a bedroom) windowsill would make it a very simple two leap jump to the lower roof, and from there the main house roof was only a jump of less than 2 feet - extremely simple for an agile cat like Fluffy.

  I speculate that had happened yesterday, and Fluffy Cat had gone up to the main house roof, crossed over to my side, and then come down onto the lower roof. I wondered where he would go next. As soon as he saw me he jumped the approx 4ft across the drop to the ground to land on the windowsill. Without wishing to tempt fate, I opened the window so he could come in and stop doing dangerous acrobatics !

  I managed to convince him to follow me downstairs without investigating every room upstairs. Once down in the dining room I closed the door to stop him getting back into the rest of the house, and went to dish out some dinner into one of his new food bowls. All I had was some turkey flavour food that he had previously rejected (and ended up as fox food). It seems that in the new bowl it was mysteriously now quite tasty. He almost finished it all, and then went to sit in a box. I had other things to do, and opened the dining room window for him in case he wanted to go out - which he did once I left the room.

  The "other things" I was intending to do was little more than being fairly lazy in my warm bedroom. I can't remember if I did or didn't, but I probably had a snooze. I certainly laid on my bed to do a bit more reading, and I am sure at one point I put the book down and closed my eyes. From the speed at which time seemed to pass I guess I did snooze for a bit. The next thing I knew was that it was time to get my dinner ready to eat while watching the 6 O'clock news.

  While trying to remember what I had for dinner, I have suddenly remembered the missing bit of my lunch. It was a Ginsters chicken and bacon pasty. I had never tried one before, and it was OK-ish, but generally underwhelming. I would probably buy another if it were on the reduced price shelf, but full price would over value it.

  I think I probably had a snack an hour or two before dinner, and I feel sure it was a packet or two of baked waffles (like packets of crisps). I had dared buy a packet of "maple syrup bacon" flavour. I had visions of burping up bacon flavour for the rest of the day - like smoky bacon crisps give you. In that respect these weren't bad, but I feel sure they are just a one off curiosity buy.

  My actual dinner was vanilla ice cream and fruit cake. It sounds daft, and the last thing to eat while trying to control sugar and calorie intake, but somehow it seems to be very safe, and maybe even good for me. I think I may have overdone the amount of ice cream this time, but my health tests this morning were still pretty good. Rather than eat any more I had lots of chilled water to make me feel a bit fuller, and I had a few whiskeys as well.

  I watched TV until 11pm, and it was the usual mix of start trek, QI and Have I Got News For You. Soon after 11pm I was in bed, and asleep. I thought I felt OK before I fell asleep, but at about 1am I woke up and burped. It was a very acid tasting burp, and as soon as I sat up I could feel heart burn starting. I had to get up and have some Gaviscon tablets to calm the acid down.

  That seemed to work, but I did feel a bit odd, and that became worse as I laid down to try and go back to sleep. I wanted to get back to sleep to see if I could resume, or even improve on a dream I had in the short period of sleep before I had to get up to deal with the heartburn. It was a quite erotic dream - hence the idea that I was hoping to resume it if I got back to sleep - despite long experience telling me I have never, ever resumed any good dream.

  The first I remember of the dream was laying on my bed, and 3 or 4 young woman jumping on top of me. The curious thing is that they seemed light as a feather, and I had no impression of any weight on me, but I still seemed to be amid a tangle of bodies. I think they may have been egged on by a friend I haven't seen for years, Ivor. One of the young women was his wife as remembered from possibly before he was married to her.

  As I tried to get my arms free i kept feeling things. One was a very soft but shapely bottom. It did not produce any negative reaction when I fondled it. Then I found myself caressing a breast. Once again there was no protest made. It was all very pleasant, and I suspect In touched other (all clothed) areas, but jut as I was enjoying myself I woke up with the acid feeling burp.

  I mentioned tha even after taking the Gaviscon tablets I still felt a bit odd. I thought I might vomit, and even put a bowl by my bed - just in case. The actual trouble seemed to be at the other end. I went to the toilet to have a pee, and got strong hints that I might have some bottom trouble. I went back to my bed, but only stayed there for something like 10 minutes before going back to the toilet.

  With just a modicum of effort I passed a medium sized, medium hard poo. I assumed that was all the bother was, and went back to bed. I had only been laying in bed for an few minutes when I felt the urge to fart, but I also felt an element of danger. I was right. I went back to the toilet and once I was sitting comfortable I exploded. It was nine tenths as bad as diarrhoea. I can't think of any reason why i might have got food poisoning, but that was what the cause may well have been.

  It was about 3am by the time I felt safe to give in to sleep. I had missed quite a bit of sleep, and it seems I made up for it by getting up extra late this morning. I did get up once before 8am so I could take screen shots of the weather forecasts, but than I went back to sleep again. When I was awake again I went to the toilet for a pee, and then weighed myself. The first time I weighed myself I seemed to have put a little weight on. The second time, which was only a big pee, but not a huge pee, seemed to have dropped my weight enough to say I had lost a miraculous 500gm since yesterday morning.

  My blood glucose was not as good as the day before, but still good enough. The Contour meter, and the GlocoFix meters read 7.8mmol/l. That is good enough, but not very good. The GlucoRX meter read 7.0mmol/l - the lowest of the three meters and that is actually almost very good.

  The main plan for today is to go for my (usually) regular Wednesday lunchtime drink in The Jolly Farmers. As I write this i should have just finished showering, and getting ready to go out in another 20 to 30 minutes time. I think I am going to be late, but that doesn't matter. It could even be good if the latest update to the weather forecast has any credibility. The BBC says there will be dizzle at midday, but from 1pm there may be sunny spells, and the walk through the park will be far more enjoyable. It could be 16° C, and I might not even need bother with a coat. Some nice sunshine on my arms would be very nice !








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