It is very grey at the moment, and by 2pm it could be raining, although only light rain is predicted. (4 or 5 days ago the BBC were predicting an afternoon of thunderstorms). The afternoon temperature may reach 18° C, and maybe that is a couple of degrees short of "brewing up" a thunderstorm. The rain may finish at 10pm, and by midnight the temperature may still be 12° C, and the latest update says it will be raining then. Tomorrow may feature a few isolated sunny spells, but most of the day will be dull, but dry. Tomorrow afternoon may only see 17° C.

  Yesterday was yet another mix of good, bad but mostly indifferent. The highlight of the day was a delivery from Amazon. The afternoon beer tasting session was reasonably OK, and much of the rest of the day was indifferent.

  Despite my blood glucose being high enough to just touch the red, danger line, I still had a bowl of instant noodles for breakfast. It was part of the need to have some food in my stomach before the afternoon beer drinking. There were two other things I did in the morning - three if the short snooze counts.

  Once I had had a lie down, and I presume I snoozed when I had my lie down after I finished writing yesterday's diary. At 1,782 words it was not my longest by far, but above the average. That seemed a good enough excuse to lie down and close my eyes, but not for too long.

  Once I heaved myself back to reality I had a shower. I would have liked to have washed my hair as well, but I didn't want to spend too much time dripping with water because it was getting late, and there was a microscopic possibility that Amazon might do an early delivery - they did it once ! Once I was clean and dry I got out my Mounjaro pen, and gave myself an out-of-sequence injection. I did it because of my very high blood glucose, and I hoped it would start getting it down - and it did.

  There was more I could, and probably should have done, to get the dining room and kitchen ready for a beer tasting session with Jodie. I did give the work surfaces a quick wipe down, and I washed and polished the beer glasses. I didn't complete clear the sink of washing up, but there were only a few things in it - which would not have taken long to do, and with hindsight I don't know why I didn't.

  It was just after 2pm, and only a bit more than an hour after I had finished my shower, that my Amazon delivery arrived. It was, as I mentioned yesterday or the day before, a gift pack of Liquorice based stuff, and two jars filled with Liquorice Allsorts. I knew I had to be very careful because of my high blood glucose, but the chance to test something from the delivery was irresistible.

  When I opened up the gift pack I saw something I had never seen before. It was liquorice based (or flavoured) candy-floss. As well as being something new, the packet proclaimed that it was Vegan and Sugar Free. There would be no harm in testing that, and if I lost control and ate the whole packet, the worst that could happen was it might give me "the shits" in the morning. I think I managed to only eat about 2/3rds of it (and it was about a 70gm pack so there was not a lot of it in the first place). It was nice, but not the sort of nice that demanded I order more of it.

  I think Jodie arrived at about 3.45pm, a little later than usual, but she had done a bit of shopping in Catford. Unusually she was fairly chatty for the first 20 to 30 minutes, but then the lure of her phone became too much. We had a couple of nice beers, a few medium beers, and for once, no nasty beers, although maybe one was an edge case.

  During the tasting session I popped out to the kitchen to prepare my dinner. It was mashed sweet potato with peas and a couple of slices of corned beef (the last couple in the pack, and needing to be used ). If it was ordinary potato I would have added some mint, but I didn't think that would go well with sweet potato. What I tried was some "mild" curry powder from a plastic bottle I had bought ages (2 years ?) ago, but never before opened. It was OK, but as an experiment it was a failure.

  Jodie left to get a train at about 6.50pm (or maybe another 10 or so minutes before that). Once she had gone I tested my sweet potato mash.I had used a fairly bit sweet potato, and so it seemed quite a big dinner, but it slid down very easily, and oddly I never felt like I had over eaten. In fact I decided I would have some more liquorice for Dessert - but only a couple of pieces. It was than that I discovered the Panda branded liquorice was made in Finland - a fact that would have excited Jodie, who has a great love of all things Finnish (for reasons unknown). It was too late to offer her any, and I don't think she likes liquorice.....but she can make exceptions for Finnish things. I took pictures of the bag, and sent them to Jodie this morning.

  By flicking around between channels I managed to find some TV entertainment last night. There was nothing riveting enough to stop me turning off the TV possibly as early as 9pm, but maybe it was 10pm. One thing I did before going to sleep was to take one of my Furosemide "water" tablets. I can't remember quite what my reasoning for this was, but I think I may have felt that I was retaining a bit of water. My left leg was showing some signs of puffiness.

  I seemed to sleep well last night, and that is despite waking up 3 or maybe even 5 times to have quite a significant amount of pee. After getting up I had one more pee, but no poo, and weighed myself. I found I had lost a little bit of weight. A bit later, after counting out my pills for the day I went to the toilet, and this time I did have a fairly decent poo. I weighed myself again, and this time I saw that I had lost 500gm since yesterday morning.

  I was quite pleased with my blood glucose this morning. Yesterday morning it was on the danger line, but this morning, probably thanks to the out of sequence injection of Mounjaro, but maybe also because I had tried to avoid anything with sugar in it (that included having sweet potato instead of normal potato despite what "sweet" potato suggests. Sweet potato has less sugar in it than normal potato). I got readings of 7.8, 8.3, and 7.0mmol/l, or an average of 8.0. That is nothing to boast about, but slightly good in a sort of normal way.

  Today I may still go out, but my enthusiasm is already waning. There are some reasons to go out and some to not.
  Looking out the back bedroom window (that having the clearest view) showed a rather dirty looking grey sky. That was an immediate turn off. Then there is the consideration of what I would do if I went out as intended.

  My intention was to go to the Petts Wood May Fayre, but only to do some photography, and possibly just of the live stage. In past years there have been some great bands on, but this year I feel underwhelmed. The only band I know is Vince Lightning & The Thunderboltz. They are worth a couple of pictures, but I can't say I like them much.

  The Bollywood Dancercise might have been good for pervy reasons. I find Indian woman quite attractive (and the Indian nurses were wonderful nurses while I was in hospital), but it does not feel a good enough reason to travel all the way to Petts Wood.

  If it were warm and sunny this afternoon it would all be a better attraction, but it seems rain is likely this afternoon. The good thing is that I don't have to make a firm decision now. I could have a shower, and wash my hair, and go shopping in Aldi, and there would still be time to get to Petts Wood. Maybe I will, but at the moment I think it unlikely. I still might go shopping in Aldi (assuming they are open today).