08:47 GMT

  Today has started very cold, just 5° C according to my thermometers, and the forecast predicts a high of just 8° C this afternoon. One positive thing is that as I write this we are having a sunny spell. The forecast shows many more, and that may go some way to lessen the impact of the cold during the day, but tonight the temperature may drop to just 4° C. and by tomorrow morning it could be down to 3° C. That seems cold enough to cause some frost on cars parked on the south side of the road, and which will be in permanent shade all day long. Tomorrow should see an afternoon high of just 6° C, and by 8pm it will be down to 4° C again. It should be completely dry tomorrow, and that is just as well because those morning and even temperature could be low enough for sleet or snow. That may well happen on Thursday morning !

  This morning I have an appointment with the nurse. It is mostly just monitoring how I am doing, and if my Mounjaro (self injected) injections are doing anything to cause weight loss. They are not, but Mounjaro is still regulating my blood glucose really well. My weight this morning is 400gm higher than when I first started taking Mounjaro !

  I am never going to finish this before I have to rush off to the surgery. I still have have an hour or so before I have to leave, and I can write a bit more, but I'll have to hope that it is all still here, ready for me to finish this off when I get back to the surgery. There is one other fly in the ointment, and that is I am expecting a visit from Patricia. I suggested to her I would probably be back from the nurse at 11am at the latest, and that might be the time she aims to get here. I may only get another 15 minutes writing time, and then maybe upload all I have, and try and fill in the gaps tomorrow.

  Now back home after seeing the nurse.

  There is not a lot to say about most of yesterday. It was a fairly typical day with some resting and a snooze. I did taker a break from resting to have some lunch. I might have been inclined to skip lunch, but I wanted something in my stomach before drinking lots of beer later in the afternoon. I am certain it included some greasy crisps, but I can't seem to remember anything else. It is possible I decided I didn't need anything else.

   With no trains running yesterday (because of engineering work), Jodie had to get the 54 bus here. She missed one bus, and warned me she might be late, but the 54 probably runs every 15 minutes, or less, and she didn't seem late when she got here. We were probably only on our first beer when I got a message from Michael. He wondered if we were drinking, and could he join us ?

  We don't usually see Michael on a Sunday because he usually spends the afternoon with his wife at the care home that is supposed to look after her. I can't seem to remember if he said there was a special reason he wanted to join us, but I've always told him he is welcome to join us on Sunday (late) afternoon and (early) evening. He seemed in fair spirits, and didn't seem to need his usual counselling.

  Just heard from Patricia. She is heading here and could be here in 10 minutes or less. I'll have to continue this later.

  It is now 3.30pm and Patricia is having a snooze in the spare room. I have also had a snooze, and I only woke up a minute or so ago, and I feel a bit whoozy. We have had a good catch up, and I think Patricia will be leaving again in the not too distant future. One curious thing was when Patricia texted me to say she was in Lewisham, and would be with me soon. She said she had some lunch with her, and said "guess what it is ?"  The first thing that came to me was empanadas.

  Empanadas are a South American type of pastie, and do look similar to Cornish Pasties. I first heard about empanadas many years ago when I was working in Earlsfield, and on the floor underneath where I worked in an old re-purposed factory, was a place called Mercado Argentino. They were a specialist importer of Argentinian foods and drinks. They sold ready made pastry disks that you could wrap around a, usually savoury, most often a meat filling. I bought several packs and experimented. Patricia approved of my work !

  It is now 8pm, and I was going to write a lot more, but spending time with Patricia, and another long and rambling call from Lee, has kept me away from writing. Patricia has gone to bed, after watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine I will do the same. I'll have to try and remember what I was going to say, and write it tomorrow. Patricia will be leaving to head back to see her sister fairly early in the morning, and then I will have the whole day to write if I need to.








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