Today
features full sunshine from dawn
to dusk, and that should raise the
temperature to 25° C, but not
until 5pm. The night is going to
be another chilly night. Tomorrow
may start at just 15° C, but a lot
of full sunshine, with a few hours
of just sunny spells, should raise
the afternoon temperature to 26°
C. Sunday may see the return of
30° C !
I feel rotten this morning.
Some of it seemed like it was
going to be a stomach upset, but
that quickly resolved itself with
a visit to the toilet. The rest is
like I have a hangover, and that
would be fine if only I had drunk
any booze yesterday, but I didn't
touch a drop. I reckon it is
probably the latest media darling,
Ebola.
In view of how I feel, just
a brief look at the main things
yesterday. After a shower I git
dressed and went to the pharmacy
to pick up my latest, increased
does (0.5mg) injector of Ozempic.
I then walk to Poundland where
among other things I bought a
USB-C to USB-C lead, but I could
not find any USB-C power supplies.
For that I continued walking to
Poundstretcher where I bought more
assorted stuff, plus another
illuminated charging lead, and the
USB-C power supply. The latter was
not as powerful as hoped, but it
was still good enough to power the
charging coil to charge my Huawei
P30 Pro mobile phone.
Once I got home I had a
couple of packs of sandwiches I
had saved from my shopping trip to
Tesco the day before. After that I
sort of collapsed. Not in the
literal sense, but it felt like my
walk plus lunch had made me feel
very tired. I spent some time
reading, and maybe more time
snoozing. When I think about it,
it could have been the first
symptoms of whatever ails me this
morning. Like yesterday, I seem to
have run out of get up and go.
It didn't help that the one
thing I did attempt did not go
well. I tried to pack two cameras
with a few lenses, and some
accessories, in a very big "over
the shoulder" type camera bag, but
it weighed a ton, and it still
didn't have everything I might
have liked to take in it.
This assemblage of camera
kit was for tomorrow when I am
going to a much shorter outdoor
mini music festival in the park
behind Bromley's Churchill
Theatre. Just two bands will be
playing, and one of them will be
The Life Of Brian. I think the
whole event runs from midday to
3pm. It is easiest to get to by
getting a train to Shortlands, and
then I estimate it will take
little more than 10 minutes of
walking (I hope).
Using the big camera bag is
not going to work because of the
weight. I am going to have to use
my big camera carrying rucksack. I
know that is easy to carry on my
back, but it lack the immediacy of
a bag hung from my neck. On the
other hand, the only way of
getting most of the kit in the bag
would be to take the lenses off
the two cameras. That would kill
any immediacy, and so maybe the
rucksack is the sensible answer.
This was supposed to be
brief, and so I'll skip to almost
bed time. In practice that means
leaving out very little, very
little ! I was feeling tired as I
watched my usual evening TV fare,
but I didn't turn the TV off until
a bit before 11pm. I had brushed
my teeth during a commercial
break, and so I could go straight
to bed. I had intended to read for
a while, but I decided to turn out
the light, and go straight to
sleep. It was another of those
nights that seem to be the new
normal. I put my head on the
pillow, and within 5 minutes, and
probably less, I was fast asleep.
Last night was another
night that seems to have left no
memories. Maybe I do remember a
hint that I might have had some
sort of dream, but not a single
clue what it might have been
about. I am not even sure I woke
up to go for a pee during the
night, but I am sure I must have,
or then again it could explain one
thing if I didn't.is
When I got up I went to the
toilet, and had a pee, but didn't
poo. Now poo never seems to weigh
much, and when I weighed myself I
seemed to have gained a lot of
weight. I don't recall eating
anything that would explain that,
but a lot of water in my system
would explain my weight gain.
There was one thing that
hinted that my idea that I didn't
eat all that much might be true,
and it was my blood glucose
readings. They were not as good as
the day before, but 8.3, 8.3 and
8.6mmol/l are pretty good readings
- lower would be better, but these
readings are acceptable.
My final health reading is
my blood pressure. Despite a
headache that could have been a
blood pressure problem, a reading
of 129/69 is pretty good....at
least I think it is. My pulse rate
is the only thing that bothers me.
For the last four days it has been
76bpm, and there were a scattering
of similar pulse rate figures
during last month. It seems to be
a bit fast for when I am supposed
to be in a resting state, but the
nurse does not seem worried about
it, and although not a
cardiologist, she has had advance
training in these sorts of things.
Today I was going for a
walk in the park, and I was
thinking of another short shopping
trip, but I doubt I will do
either. I fancy a snooze, and when
I have had that I really need to
pull my finger out and finish the
photos I took at Petts Wood
calling. One photo album will be a
headache. It will be of The
Nameless whose lead singer is
Jamie Bull, son of renowned
photographer John Bull. I can't
match his photos, and the way he
gives them an almost surrealistic
look, but I have to try to find
enough of my photos that look like
they were taken by a professional
photographer rather than an
artist.