This morning has seen a bit of light rain, but it is dry again outside, and there is some hazy sunshine as I type this (at almost 11am). The forecast says this afternoon will be dull, but it will still reach 20° C. The clouds may finally dissipate around 8pm, and clear skies will mean a cold night. The temperature will have fallen to 15° C by midnight, By 6am tomorrow is could be just 13° C. Tomorrow will be very bright with most daylight hours featuring full sunshine. The afternoon may reach 22° C.

  Yesterday was generally OK, but like this morning, I got off to slow start, and didn't manage all I wanted to do yesterday. On the other hand I did do a few things that were very productive.

  The most productive thing was finding where all the hair that used to live on my head has gone. Much of it seemed to have moved in to the dining room carpet. For weeks, if not months, I've been thinking that the dining room carpet has been looking very grubby. Yesterday seemed like a good day to get the hoover out. There was one other reason why I did it. Next week I am still hoping Jo will be my getaway driver when I have my colonoscopy and gastroscopy. With a getaway driver I can sedation which will make the whole process far more pleasant. When Jo takes me home I will ask if she want to come in for a coffee or something. I thought I should try and make the dining room looks a little less like a tip.

  One thing that hoovering convinced me to do was to look at getting a new hoover. My current one is made to Euro energy saving specification, and sucks with all the power of an asthmatic ant. There is no way I am going to pay for a Dyson, but maybe I can find something better for around £100.

  I finished the hoovering, and the room looks a bit better now, but the carpet is well past it's "best before" date. I don't think I have plans to replace it. It would be super hard work stripping the room bare to lay a new carpet. On the other hand the carpet is over 40 years old now, and it had lead a very hard life. I also did some tidying up in the kitchen, and washed and polished the beer glasses.

  After all that there was little time to do much more, although I think I managed a brief snooze before Jodie turned up to start the beer tasting. Michael turned up an hour or two later saying that he had to try and leave earlier than usual. I don't recall that we finished particularly early, but maybe it was 6.30pm instead of 7pm.

  Once everyone had gone I went online and ordered some kebabs - a lamb shish kebab with salad for last night, and a chicken shish kebab with salad for tonight. There seemed to be some cock up over paying for it, and I think it was because the pin number I was sent to authorise the payment took ages to arrive in my email, and it had timed out before I could use it. That made my "card declined", and I had to pay cash at the door. I am not so sure I have not been charged twice, and I will be checking my credit card transactions on line to make sure I have not been charged twice.

  The lamb shish kebab was very nice, and as expected it was very good for my blood glucose this morning, but, and there is always a but, I was given a freebie because of the mix up over the payment. It was a portion of what seemed stale chips. I did not many of them, although I did eat all the side order of onion rings I had ordered. Something, and that includes the beers, did not do my weight any favours this morning.

  While I was nice and relaxed, and probably still under the influence of the beer (although I would rate it a very mild influence) I started looking on Amazon for a new phone. It was some weeks or more ago I was complaining here that the battery in my Huawei phone was fading. On top of that, I am not getting any operating system updates now, and the National Rail app that I rely on for departure times from railway stations no longer works. I am sure there is no real reason for it not to work, and it is just an arbitrary cut off date.

  I could transfer everything to my Honor 200 Smart phone  - I did buy it as a possible replacement of the Huawei phone, and particularly because it work on 5G which the Huawei is too old to use. To be honest I can't find a good excuse not to use the Honor phone, apart from I don't like how everything is done with swiping the screen instead of the three traditional onscreen buttons at at the bottom of the screen. Of course, over the months, I have gut used to the swiping instead of button pushing.
 
  Last night I found a new phone. It is a XIAOMI POCO M8 Smartphone 8+512GB. It is a 5G phone, and being new it should be able to run the National Rail app. That 512GB of storage is going to store a huge amount of photos and videos, and I think I would have been happier for a cheaper version with only 128GB, but there does not seem to be one. Anyway, it was £199, and I ordered one, and it should be here this coming Monday. I hope I am not disappointed by it.

  I watched some TV last night, and I read in bed for maybe 20 minutes. I have no real idea when I went to sleep, but I am sure it was before 11pm, and may have been as early as 10pm.  I slept OK, but did have to get up at least once to pee, and I had a very weird dreams. I guess most dreams are weird, but last nights was weird plus ! In the dream I was in a hospital, and being treated by being injected with blood. I have no idea why I was in hospital, and I have no idea why being injected with blood, particularly almost a pint of it, would do anything beneficial. Of particular note was that the injector was a standard, but giant, ordinary hypodermic. It was about the size of a bicycle pump !

  This morning it seemed like I was constipated, but an hour later I did a poo, and it all seemed very normal. Unfortunately the scales still showed I had gained 300gm since yesterday morning (although the first time I got in the scales, before the poo, and before another big pee, I seemed to have gained more than twice that. On the plus side my blood glucose was 7.53mmol/l (the average of my usual three readings), and that is just about on my current target.

  My blood pressures boringly normal-ish (if anyone knows what normal really is). It was 127/80 just before I wrote this sentence. Once again my pulse rate at 74bpm seems a bit fast. It may be because I apparently have a constriction in one of my bypass grafts, but as of this time there are no plans to do anything about it. Maybe the cardiologists want all the recent work, mainly the new heart valve, to fully settle in before messing about again.

  Today I think I am going shopping in Tesco. I would like a few sandwiches for today because I fancy some sandwiches. I want some bottles of Diet Coke, and I think I fancy some small (500ml) bottles of sparkling spring water. Today is the last day when I can eat and drink normally. Tomorrow I start my 4 day low fibre diet in the big build up to taking my first dose of PlenVu - the atomic powered, hypersonic, laxative. In 6 days time it will all be over, and I can eat and drink normally !