This morning, at about 6am, it was 23° C after what seems to be now called a "tropical" night (with the night time temperature over 20° C). By this afternoon the temperature could reach 33° C. The afternoon may only see sunny spells after a morning of full sunshine. I doubt the sunny spells will give any respite, and I feel that the afternoon could be very humid and extremely sticky. After sunset it will cool off, but it looks like tonight will be another hot and sticky tropical night. Tomorrow may feature almost non stop sunshine, but a maximum of only 29° C is forecast - probably because the wind will be from the east.

  I have already described yesterday morning because I continued to write after I came back from seeing the nurse. I guess I could describe yesterday as one of the better days, although maybe I am paying for it now.

  Picking up from where I left off yesterday.....roughly..... I decided, or maybe I could not stop myself, from giving my new drug, Ozempic, a real challenge. I have no real hopes that it will control my weight - I seem to do that far better by will power when my mood is right. I do hope that, like Mounjaro, it will help control my blood glucose level. The challenge was eating a large portion of ice cream, and then later on, eating a flap jack. The latter had lots of fibre (good) and tons of sugar (very bad).

  I felt very relaxed after I had eaten. I was not waiting for any parcel deliveries, I had seen the nurse, and my day was completely clear of anything I needed to do - except for one thing. I was still thinking of walking to The Jolly Farmers, but I was thinking it was feeling too hot to walk through the park in the sunshine. I would have just ended up as a soggy mess by the time I got there.

   I ended up staying in, and doing nothing productive. I spend much of the day laying on my bed reading and snoozing (although I don't remember getting much sleep). One exception to this laziness was having a play with my high definition Sony camcorder. I am not sure I have ever checked the still photo mode of the camcorder before, and that is a shame because it is better than I thought.

  I have two Sony camcorders, and I think I bought one of them new. It is just standard definition, and seems to be a very poor relation to a mobile phone these days. It too can take still pictures, but with a definition of just 640x480 they are smaller than the pictures I show on this web page. I discovered the high definition camcorder, bought from a second hand shop, also takes moderately high definition still pictures too. Together with the new batteries I bought for it, plus the memory cards I bought for it, it now seems like a much more useful tool. I will try and test it when I got to Chattfest on the 25th and 26th of this month. Of course I will also take my big Nikon, and my best Canon camera too !!

  Another small exception of my lazy day was going down to the kitchen to prepare dinner. I didn't have a lot to choose from, but I decided some beef burgers might be nice. I think they were described as "quarter pounders", but they didn't seem to be anywhere near that size. I think I cooked all four in the pack, but I only ate two for dinner with a small can of low or no sugar baked beans plus some grated Cheddar cheese on them. It felt a very rich meal, but I really wanted a dessert after it. I resisted ice cream, and settled on a small punnet of strawberries.

  I watched the news while eating dinner, and then some more TV afterwards. I gave up at about 10pm, although I could have watched an episode of QI until 11pm if I had had the energy. I think the heat had drawn any energy out of me, and I felt ready to sleep soon after I went and laid on my bed. If I remember correctly I opened my book, and managed to read half a page before it all went sort of blurry (although not literally blurry).

  I put the book down, turned out the light, and it seems the same switch turned off my brain. I seemed to have no trouble sleeping in the tropical heat thanks to my fan blowing some air over my uncovered body. I did note that one end of my pillow was saturated with sweat when I got up to pee in the small hours of this morning. I turned the pillow around, and used the dry end when I laid down again.

  Note to self: Wash the towel I use to soak up sweat on the pillow today ! Don't leave it until the pillow is just soaked with more sweat and very greasy.

  I had one dream last night, but the details are fading even as I try to remember it. In the dream I seemed to be at work in a place I have never worked in before. I have no idea what we did, but I do remember that it was called The Lab. There was one woman there who I seemed to be friends with. We started discussing where all the doors went, and in particular one door at the end of the room. It seemed to be a way in and not a way out. I went out to investigate. I did a sort of circular tour around the outside of The Lab, and ended up on the road. On the back of the building I had just come out of I spotted a blue painted door like the the other doors I knew inside. I think my dream faded out when I opened that door, and found myself walking into The Lab.

  When I got up this morning I had a pee, and also passed quite a small poo. I feel there should be more, but I feel no discomfort. When I weighed myself I found my reckless eating had raised my weight by 300gm. That is mildly annoying, but I still feel I am in a good position to maybe have lost a full kilogram in the near future, and thus change the colour code of my weight on my spreadsheet.

  The news about my blood glucose is sort of mixed, but not good. I got readings of 9.9mmol/l (teetering on the edge of very bad), 10.4mmol/l (very bad) and 11.3mmol/l (slightly a disaster). The average of all three is 10.53mmol/l. That is over the red line, and when bad things could happen. On the other hand it was better than yesterday (11.3mmol/l), and better than one other high reading this month. Considering I was throwing the worst at it, it seems the Ozempic has helped, and if I eat more carefully today I may get all readings down to more sane readings. As to whether Ozempic will act as a miracle weight loss drug.....well, we'll have to see. I think not, but you never know.

  The main, and perhaps only thing on the menu today is beer tasting day ! It is possible that Jodie may declare to too hot to come over, and I would not blame her if that was the case, but otherwise she will be over to supervise the opening of a few more cans and bottles of beer. If Jodie does not want to come over I may call the whole thing off. I am not sure I want to spent a few hours with Michael if he is in a moaning mood. Besides which, I wouldn't mind staying teetotal for another week for the sake of my health. I think I shall prepare as if it will happen, and see what actually happens.