As well as some unmarked vans there were two bearing the rockit logo. Looking up their website, https://www.rockiteventproduction.co.uk/ doesn't provide more than a few clues as to what they were doing in Ladywell Arena. One possibility is that they do play bottom of the league football in the arena, and maybe they were going to live stream a football match, or ........

  One thing I wish I had taken a picture of was a mobile "Caribbean Kitchen" - a sort of modified caravan with Calor gas (or similar)  powered cooking, although it was connected to a mobile generator for it's lighting, and maybe some cooking appliances.

  The reason for wishing I had taken a picture of it because of what happened a couple of hours after I got home. I was in my kitchen when I saw a huge pall of black smoke rising from approximately where I would think that mobile kitchen was. I theorised that maybe a faulty gas connection, or something else caused the vehicle to catch fire, and all the smoke was cooking fat going up in flames. If I had the time I would have taken a wander along to the park, but I was expecting Jodie to arrive at any minute. I might have gone along this morning, but I had my appointment with the nurse. It is unlikely, but I could take a look later this afternoon. Even if the wreckage has been removed, the grass would still be scorched enough to confirm or deny my theory.



  As I wrote nearer the top of the page, it was not a very long walk yesterday, but it was a good test - testing two things. The first was the new slip on, £7, trainer like shoes I bought from Poundstretcher. They seemed comfortable enough to give me no trouble at all.

  The other test was my legs and in particular, my ankles. It could have been something to do with the new shoes, but I think not, but I did the whole walk with almost no discomfort from my ankles. I did get a slight ache from the right knee from time to time, but it was mostly ignorable, and when it was not ignorable it still wasn't specially painful.

  I think that I have almost restored the strength to my walking muscles, and maybe the next time I go for a walk I will see what happens if I try to do 2 miles, and maybe I might aim for three miles using a route where I can turn back early if I am starting to feel too much discomfort (although getting home would still be very unpleasant if I turned back the instant I felt some discomfort. It may be something I'll just have to endure when I try it.



   After Jodie arrived we started on the beers. I think we probably opened and tried about 6 cans of beer (all Lagers/Pilsners). Each can was 330ml, or roughly half a pint. In other words it was about a 3 pint session each - which doesn't seem excessive to me - even if some miserable doctors would say otherwise. I certainly felt seemingly very sober when Jodie went home, although I was very much looking forward to my dinner of grilled bacon, low sugar baked beans and a couple of small baked sweet potatoes. I did follow it was a bit of ice cream.

  After the usual evening TV, albeit a Sunday evening selection, or barely watchable in some cases (although an ancient episode of Red Dwarf was enjoyable) I went to bed. I read for long enough to completely finish the book I was reading, but that only took me up to about 11pm, and maybe a little earlier. I did not want to get to sleep too late because I had to be up early this morning. I think I woke up to pee a few times, but otherwise I seemed to sleep well.

  This morning I got up at 7am, and this time got up actually meant completely out of bed. I went to the toilet, and after weighing myself, and checking my blood glucose, I went and washed my hair and had a shower. I had intended to wash my hair, and also have a shower yesterday afternoon, but there never seemed to be the time or inclination for it. I felt washing my hair and having a shower were essential before my appointment with the nurse this morning. I even made a point of washing my feet more than just letting them rinse in the shower water. I also cut my toenails, and managed to draw blood as I did it.

  Now the bad thing was that although I had lost some weight, a whole 200gm since yesterday, my weight was still too high, and proof that the Mounjaro injections were not working as a weight loss agent by itself. However, it was still working wonders for my blood glucose level. I did eat a fair amount of sugar yesterday, but the averqage of all three blood glucose readings this morning was only 7.63mmol/l. That was not as low as the day before, but still rather good, and lower than quite a few days this month. I did check my blood pressure, but with all the rushing about, and my typical "white coat syndrome", even if the nurse does not wear a white coat, and is far less judgemental than some doctors, it was still moderately high.

  I did all that stuff, and still did a slow-ish walk to the surgery to arrive there about 15 minutes early. After a wait I was called into to see the nurse. I had deliberately worn my best leather jacket - not only was it a little cool outside, but it was a good example as to how my shape has changed for the better even if the scales do not show much improvement. I demonstrated how that coat which was once too tight to wear, and hard to even do up, now fitted really well. I also told her how I had recently checked all my summer shorts, and several that I had not been able to wear for years were now a good fit.

  The nurse told me that at a seminar she had attended it was reported that some people were known not to lose weight when using Mounjaro, and I am not sure if she said it directly, or implied it, that they were not actually doing anything wrong. I admitted that if I wanted to lose a lot of weight my only option was a very careful, and forced diet. Mounjaro does not effect my hunger in any way apart from, indirectly, the wrong way. The low blood glucose does almost certainly make me think that if my blood glucose is that well controlled I do not need to control some of what I eat.

  I told the nurse truthfully, as far as intentions go, that now I seem to be able to walk without too many aches again, I will probably be doing a lot more exercise in the warmer days we should be getting soon, and that usually makes me lose some weight. It can also help to modulate my eating in a more positive manner. On top of that I can cheat a lot. A long walk on a very hot day can sweat out several hundred grammes of water. Of course one pint of water (or beer) and it is straight back on, but a weight measurement before that can look good, and that very fact can make me want to try and make it more permanent. Whether that will happen if I am thinking along those lines is something I will find out later.

  After I had finished with the nurse I went shopping in Aldi (it is handily just around the corner). As usual, I bought a mix of the good,, bad and indifferent. I did stuff myself with a couple of sandwiches when I got home, and I also ate a whole small tub of a very high sugar content ice cream....or maybe it was actually a Gelato. That is what it said on the plastic jar it was in - "Lemon Meringue Gelato". It was very nice and very naughty. I shouldn't dare to eat another thing until tomorrow, but I know I will.