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Tuesday 24th March 2026
09:24 GMT

  Yesterday had many sunny spells,and after a very cool start (5° C) it warmed up to 14° C.After sunset the temperature dropped, but it was still 9° C at midnight.
 BBC_weather forecast
  The first temperature I saw this morning was 10° C, which is not what the forecast says. Also we have had at least one, rather hazy sunny spell, but that may have just been a fluke because the sky does seem to be unbroken light grey cloud. The cloud may thicken later, and the sky will turn very dull, but the temperature could still reach 14° C. From about 6pm it could start to drizzle. By 10pm it could be light rain, but at least the thick clouds will keep the temperature up during the night. Tomorrow should start at 7° C, but by 7am it will fall to 6° C. Then the temperature may slowly rise to 9° C by 1pm. Much of tomorrow features that odd weather icon which says it will be bright, but also rain. Maybe we will see a rainbow or two !

  Yesterday was a weird sort of day, but only in the sense that it did not turn out anything like I hoped it would. I think I felt fairly content all day long despite not doing some things I thought I would like to do.

  The most constructive thing I did between reading and snoozing yesterday was to make up two pannini rolls with the last of the sliced corned beef I had in the fridge. With some salad leaves and horseradish sauce they were tasty, but a bit stodgy. It was because things like that Corned beef were almost, and then were used up, that I wanted to go shopping, but I never found the right time or inclination.

  There was one very tiny constructive thing I did in the middle of a very lazy afternoon, and that was to spray white vinegar cleaner on parts of the bath tub. That stuff is fairly mild, but good enough to dissolve light lime scale. The end of the bath where the plughole is looks a bit better for it, but I could, and maybe even today, do better.

  For my dinner I had one of those brainstorms where I became fixated on the idea of pizza for dinner (with a spare for today). There is a place I have used in Catford called pizza2nights.co.uk, and I used them twice with no problems after enduring the long rides home in "patient transport" from King College Hospital. I ordered and they delivered with no problem. Maybe it was because I was ordering at around 4pm (if I recall correctly).

  Yesterday, and I think it may have been last Thursday, I tried to order pizza to be delivered, hopefully, in time to munch while watching the 6pm BBC news. The first step, when using their web site is to enter your post code. It then tells you, yes we deliver to your address, and it will typically take about 45 minutes. You then go on to order what you want, and finally get to the checkout to confirm name, address and credit car details. So far so good, but yesterday, and last Thursday, I could not click on "Confirm" (or whatever it says) because it says they can't deliver right now. It does offer teh chance to pre-order for maybe much later at night, or a different day.

  Pizza2nights lost my custom, and I used Chick Chicken who were most happy to deliver. I am not sure their pizzas are quite as good, but they do seem pretty nice. The main downside is that a seafood pizza is not a standard pizza, and you have to order a blank pizza and select your own toppings. It is mildly annoying, but the end result is good. I think my order arrived about 30 minutes later, and that was 15 minutes quicker than the estimated time for the other place (but I think on the two occasions when I did get pizzas from them it was quicker).

  I ate the whole of the 12" seafood pizza while watching the news, and it was filling enough that I should not have eaten any more, but I couldn't resist some of the grilled wings I had ordered as a side. I was then full enough that I found I didn't really want to eat the portion of ice cream I had intended to eat. I think I still have a few grilled wings left, and I certainly have a 12" meat feast (or something like that) in the fridge to eat today.

  After the usual TV I went to bed. I didn't seem to like the episode of Have I Got News For You that I might have watched, and so I was in bed earlier than I thought I would be by a whole hour. That was probably good because after reading for little more than 10 minutes I felt ready to try for sleep. I think I was probably fast asleep 10 minutes later. I seemed to have a good sleep, and even the 3 or 4 times I got up to pee felt almost dreamlike (but I think they were real), and I seemed to fall asleep within minutes of getting back into bed.

  Just before I woke up I had an interesting dream. In the dream I was walking down a big tunnel. It was like an expanded version of the subway entrance of Hither Green station, and I think the station was at the end of the tunnel I was walking down. Along the tunnel there was an entrance that lead into a sort of working man's club - basically a bar run by a committee drawn from some of the drinkers.

  I had never been in the club before, and didn't really think it was open to anyone but members. I also thought you had to be in certain trades to become a member. (As a side note, on the way to Hither Green Station there is a club that was originally meant for railway workers. It was from the days when British Rail had far more staff, and I think that with railway staff much diminished the club may be open to anyone). I walked past the club in the tunnel while walking to Hither Green station.

  I don't know why I walked to the station because I didn't want to catch a train. Maybe it was just walking exercise because having reached the end of the tunnel, and the station, I turned around and started walking home again. This time I decided to take a peek inside the club. No one said a word as I walked in and looked around. It seemed like a fairly nice place, but maybe not a place to drink alone. I didn't go to the bar, but sort of did a circle and walked out again - seemingly from a different door. More happened after that, but my memory of it all has faded.

  I got up a little earlier than usual this morning, but I've mostly wasted the extra time. I did weigh myself after a pee, but no poo (and still no poo as I write this). After all I ate yesterday I guess I should be happy that I have only gained 100gm - and a decent poo would probably slightly more than offset that.

  One other thing I did yesterday, which I am now reminded of now I am about to mention my blood glucose readings, was to have a Mounjaro injection from my new injector pen. With readings of 7.2, 7.3 and 7.9mmol/l it seems to be working well....well considering the sweet biscuits I ate as a late night snack, plus all I had eaten during the day. The average was 7.47mmol/l. That is less than the last few days, but slightly more than the average of the previous 10 or 15 days.

  Maybe tomorrow my weight and blood glucose could be smaller. I have made a conscious decision to skip breakfast. On the other hand that will do little by itself, and if I do carry out my threat to myself, and go shopping in Aldi, everything could be far worse tomorrow. Hopefully, if that happens, things will settle down after that. There is a slight possibility that I may not go shopping today, and will try a medium length walk today. The flaw in that idea is the dull weather. It should feel mild enough to wear shorts, but without hot sunshine I wonder if there is any point.
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