Today may be totally dry, but once again it will be a rather cool day. This morning we have had some very sparse sunny spells, but the rest of the day will be rather dull, although maybe not dull enough to be gloomy. This afternoon should see 18° C, which seems very poor for June. Tomorrow we may be back to all day rain, and the afternoon may struggle to reach a very poor 16° C, but 4pm may see 17° C for that one single hour. I still think the seasons have gone crazy.
 
  Yesterday was a day when I hardly did a thing. I seemed to bein a very lazy mood, or maybe I was just lacking inspiration. A cool and soggy wet day can do that to me.

  I think I can keep today's diary entry very short because there is very little to tell. I spent the morning just lazing around, reading stuff on the internet, reading my book, and I am sure i had a fair snooze, and maybe two. One thing I did do was to try and eat semi safely. I think my lunch was rice crackers with cheese and sliced pickled chillies. At some point, and possibly late morning, but it could equally have been sometime in the afternoon (I lost all track of time because nothing I did was time critical, and anyway, I basically did nothing) I scoffed about 6 pieces of liquorice allsorts.

  After an afternoon where I did a whole lot more of nothing, I did take time out to prepare and cook my dinner. It was a large sweet potato (actually low sugar and high fibre - although I am doubting that at the moment) that I baked in the oven, and served it with butter and cheese on it. I thought it would be a healthy choice, or at least the last time I boiled and mashed a similar amount of sweet potato, is seemed to be a good choice for my health.

  It may have been after the sweet potato that I had the 5 or 6 pieces of liquorice allsorts as a sort of dessert, but I suspect it may have been before dinner. Yesterday was so bland that it might have been later in the evening, and maybe there is a clue that that was the case.

  The only diversion from my usual evening routine of TV watching is that I got a phone call from my friend Keith, and like most calls from him, it went on for ages - at least an hour. In one respect that was good because Saturday night TV is pretty dire, and finding stuff I can watch often means a lot of channel surfing. In almost desperation I ended up watching a documentary about the women in Hitler's life. Apparently he was a sexual deviant and not beyond a bit of incest !

  I haven't got a clue what time I turned the TV off and went to bed. I don't think it was a lot later than 10pm because I still felt just about awake enough to read half a dozen pages from the book I am reading before I turned the light out, and tried for sleep. My memories are very hazy, but I am sure it was one of those nights that started off with what seemed like insomnia, but maybe 10 minutes later I was fast asleep.

  I think I slept well last night - I certainly seemed ready to get up fairly early (although I did go back to bed again). I remember getting up a couple of times for quite big pees. I don't think I remember any hints of dreams - which doesn't prove I didn't have any. I feel sure I had at least one dream, but it hasn't seemed to leave any memories to cling to.

  When I got up I passed a fair bit of wind, but no poo. I did pass a fair sized bit of pee. I was pleased that the care I took with my eating meant I was 500gm lighter this morning*. The paradox is that my blood glucose is almost dangerously high. Two meters gave readings of 10.2mmol/l, and that is over the read line and into the danger zone. The other meter was almost as bad at 9.6mmol/l. I am not sure why it is so high. It is why I speculate about just when it was that I had my 5 or 6 pieces of liquorice allsorts. They are the only high sugar thing I remember eating.

* Correction: I've just done a large poo, rather later than expected, but at least I have not eaten anything so weighing myself has given a valid reading. I am not happy to say that I have lost 600gm since yesterday morning, and it seems my self contrived diet worked - so why is my blood glucose so high ????

  One thing that can cause high blood glucose is the body being stressed by illness. I did not feel that wonderful yesterday, but it is hard to say why. I did have a short episode where my blood pressure was a lot higher than ideal, but still a bit short of going into the danger zone. I am starting to think a lot that my new heart valve is not the last of the treatment for my dodgy heart. I am not worried about whatever the treatment may be, but I am worried about another long stay in hospital. I feel I've seen enough of the inside of hospitals for this decade.

  I have had plans for today that I won't be carrying out, and one that I had not planned to do that I have done. Although I have officially given up using Mounjaro as a weight loss drug, I still had one dose left, and because it is so good at controlling my blood glucose (it was originally developed as a substitute for insulin), I have taken that last dose this morning after seeing how high my blood glucose was.

  Another plan was to go shopping in Tesco, but the temptations in there, particularly with food that would have a bad effect on my blood glucose, means that I have decided not to go this morning. Maybe I'll have to go tomorrow, but today I should be safe.....or would be, but later this afternoon I will be indulging in a beer tasting session with Jodie (it is usually just Jodie on a Sunday). I definitely don't feel in the right mood for it, but maybe I might go for a walk in the park before the beer drinking starts.
  I almost forgot this picture I took just before 5pm last night. The sky is a dull grey, and filled with leaking clouds. The camera hasn't captured any falling rain, but it is easy to see how wet the shed roof is on the right of the picture, about halfway up the right edge.