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Friday 7th August 2026
10:35 BST

  Yesterday started with a few hours of full sunshine, but much of the day only featured sunny spells. The afternoon  temperature only reached 22° C, but that was rather nice.
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  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.
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