11:03 GMT

  Despite the forecast saying drizzle all morning, it is currently dry, and the road and pavements outside are starting to look dry. It is also currently 11° C, 2° C higher than the forecast says it should be. Of course it still feels quite chilly. The sky is looking rather dull, but I am not sure if it will rain or drizzle as per the forecast. By 2pm it should "officially" be dry, and then the temperature starts to drop. It looks like it could be a cold night at just 7° C, but there is worse to come in a few more days. It is worth noting that although the forecast shows no rain after 2pm, it still shows a small chance of rain ranging from 29% down to 14%. Tomorrow should start dry, but at 6am the temperature could be just 6° C. With a bit of wind chill it could feel as low as 3° C. If it were really as low as 3° C it would be cold enough for sleet and snow. That could be a reality on Thursday 20th !

  This morning I had a technical accident, and I am having to write this all over again - or try to. I doubt this will say word for word of my original version, but the important bits will be the same.

  One very important thing happened yesterday morning. I listened again to an audio message from Patricia, and found I had been mistaken about when I will see her next. I thought it could have been as early as yesterday, but she is wisely travelling by non weekend rail from where she has been staying near the south coast. Weekend rain travel can always be a bit of a gamble because that is when most engineering work takes place. The earliest I may see Patricia is tomorrow.

  Having checked and found her approximate travel plans I new I could be as lazy as I liked yesterday morning, and after I finished writing I laid on my bed to read and snooze. I can't recall which came next. It might have been lunch first, but more likely I would have washed my hair first so I didn't have to bend over the bathtub with a full belly. I can't quite remember why, but it seemed logical at the time, but I didn't bother having a shower.

   I think I knew that it wouldn't matter if I was clean if I went out for a sweaty walk in the park. I did have a mild desire to walk through the park to see what the river was doing after all the recent rain. I doubt I would have done it fast enough to work up a sweat, although I might have had to do it in one of my hooded rain coats, and it can get quite warm wearing one of those. In the end I didn't bother going out because I seemed too busy - even if I have nothing to show for all I was supposed to be doing. Actually, with hindsight, I was busy doing nothing.

  I did so much nothing that before long it seemed time for dinner. My lunch was not particularly light. It was half a medium big bag of crisps, and I think I then finished off that truly delicious chocolate and orange flavoured ice cream. That stuff is dangerously addictive, and each of the few portions I ate was quite a large portion. it was a 500mg tub, and instead of 4 or 5 light portions, I barely 3 or 4 servings from the pot.

  My dinner was....errr...I'm not sure if it was good or bad. It was bad that I didn't have a selection of vegetables with it. It was pork/ham shanks (just two of them) with a mustard sauce. I find it hard to believe it would ever have served more than two people, even with a full supporting cast of vegetable. I just ate the whole lot with no vegetables at all. I expected it to be really nice, but I almost didn't like it. I thought that after the two rib bones were subtracted from it there was not a hug amount of meat left.

  I followed it by a dessert of cake, but with no more ice cream (although I did have two different ice cream flavours in the freezer that I could have had - maybe I felt I had already eaten enough ice cream for the day). Te TV schedules were all different last night (because it was a Saturday). I managed to find stuff to watch, and some of it was fairly reasonable. I think that I went to bed at 11pm again. That is becoming a bad habit.

  I did not feel comfortable when I went to bed. I thought it prudent to have a couple of Gaviscon tablets to ward off possible heartburn. More immediately significant was a possible feeling that I was going to spend the first hour or more sitting on the toilet, but it seemed like it was just gas. I was probably asleep by, or soon after midnight. I think I can remember getting up at least once, maybe twice, in the night to pee, but it was an otherwise uneventful night.

  I did not get up very early, and by my intended standards, which might only be standard for when the days are longer, it could be described as late. It was certainly daylight outside - albeit a rather dull grey daylight. I went for my first pee of the morning, and it didn't seem to be a very big pee. I can't seem to remember if I did have a poo, or whether I just thought I should have a poo. Maybe I did a little later, and in time for weighing myself.

  This morning my weight has not changed much.....oops, I was comparing it to the day before yesterday. My weight yesterday was lower than the last few previous days, and it means that this morning I was actually a terrible 800gm more than yesterday.  I blame it on a lack of peeing, and that might, and for once maybe did indicate my blood glucose level was a bit lower.

  The Contour meter read 7.5mmol/l, and that is spot on my personal target, although I was supposed to be dropping my target to 6.5mmol/l as soon as it seemed realistic that I might manage it now and then. The GlucoRX meter read a rather good 6.3mmol/l, and if I had changed my target it would actually be under my new target. The GlucoFix meter also read 7.5mmol/l, and once again spot on my old target. The average of all three readings was 7.1mmol/l, and that is below the average of all meters so far this month. I think that the Mounjaro is working wonders on my blood glucose even if it continues to do nothing about my weight.

  Today there are no trains between Hayes and Lewisham, and I wondered if Jodie was going to come over for a beer drinking session today. I sent her a message a bit earlier, and she has replied to say she will get the 54 bus here. That means I had better have a shower today. I doubt I will have time, let alone the inclination to go and see what the river is like as it flows through the park, but I suppose it could still happen.








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