Today has started with a few sunny spells, and there is one at the moment. That is surprising because most of the sky is a mix of grey and greyer clouds. Sooner or later there will be rain, and if the forecast reflects reality there could be light rain from 11am until 9pm (now shown as from 9am to 10pm in the latest revision). The afternoon will only be 12° C. It seems it is still too early to put away the heaters ! Tomorrow could start at just 7° C, and rather grey. Rain is again forecast, and it may fall from midday to 9pm. Tomorrow afternoon may see a couple of hours at 13° C - so very slighly warmer than today, but in the rain it will hardly be noticeable.

  Yesterday mostly reflected the weather - it was a mostly dull day. There was one short bit of excitement when the man from Amazon turned up at my front door. I was not feeling good yesterday, and that limited my enthusiasm to much more than doing very little !

  With so little happening yesterday it was hard to find anything to tag as a memory, and so much of the day feels like a blank. One thing that does stand out was my breakfast, albeit eaten around mid morning. I made a decision which I now think was not a good idea, to have the rest of the Walls ice cream, that seems to have a very negative effect on my blood glucose, for breakfast. The idea being that almost 24 hours should have be long enough for the worst of the effects to wear off. It seems that maybe they didn't, and the ironic thing is that apart from the first spoonfuls, I didn't really enjoy eating the rest of the ice cream.

  At lunchtime I think I had a packet of Tesco sandwiches, but I'll skip over these patchy tissues of memory to 2.30pm. That was when Amazon delivered my parcels - not everything I ordered, but one useful thing, and one pair of cargo trousers. The useful thing was a pack of disposable paper plates. The more interesting thing was the cargo trousers. They were not quite what I expected.

  One of the pairs of Cargo Trousers I ordered was described as made in Pakistan, and I suspected the measurements would be exaggerated. I made sure I ordered slightly bigger than I needed just in case they turned out to be smaller than described. When I tried them on I found they were a bit tight, but I could do the top button up without a fight. I suspect they will stretch a little bit (until I wash them) and they could be quite comfortable after a few weeks of wear.

  I was not happy that they only had one extra patch pocket on the right leg. My current favourite cargo style shorts have two pockets, one on each leg. They are fairly big pockets, big enough to hold some of my smaller Camera lenses. The pocket on these new trousers is not very big, but big enough for a spare mobile phone and a few odds and ends. In an ideal world there would be a second pocket for one of my small cameras.

  They are made of fairly thin material, and I am not sure how rugged they will be. They were sold as wear for workmen, and I assumed they would be more rugged, but I guess for just £15.50 you can't expect too much. The other pair I ordered, and which may take a couple more days to be delivered, were only £12.95. I wonder how flimsy they will be ?

  My dinner, eaten at 6pm as usual, was a triple pack of cheese sandwiches, and a ready made tuna and pasta salad. I also had a couple of sweetmeats - two fingers of dark chocolate Kit Kat, and a caramel bar, plus something similar that I can't seem to recall. These high sugar items were a bad mistake to make, and I have to stop enjoying them - particularly in the evening.

  There is little to say about my evening - just the usual bit of TV, and after that some reading in bed. The short story I was reading was written by Isaac Asimov. In his preface he describes it as a story he is proud of, but I did not like it. It consists of a very long monologue, and unlike much of Asimov's writing, I found it quite turgid. I was more than happy to finish the short story, and also the book it was in. I was in bed longer than usual in an attempt to reach the end, and I am not sure why I bothered - I kept finding my eyes closing as I read, and I could easily have fallen into a deep sleep.

  I am unsure when I finished the story and the book it was in, but I seem to think it was probably getting on for midnight. That was not as desired because I was looking forward to catching up on what I thought was lost sleep - although I should have managed that with the few snoozes I had during the day. Once I was asleep I seemed to sleep well. I don't remember getting up to pee as often as some nights, although maybe each pee was bigger than the average.

  It was an indication that I was in sleep deficit last night, because after getting up around 6am, and taking screen shots of the weather forecasts, I went back to bed, and seemed to fall asleep again within minutes. I got almost an extra 2 hours sleep like that. I can't say I woke up feeling good. My chest felt sort of heavy, but some of that may have been because my stomach was still full of the previous day's food. If I belched, and I did it a lot, I could still taste yesterday's dinner.

  I almost felt like I could throw up because of all that fermenting food in my stomach. I believe, rightly or wrongly, this is what Mounjaro is supposed to do, and this time it works. I feel no desire for a breakfast this morning. It is not an ideal meal to skip, but that is exactly what I am doing.

  My health readings are good and bad this morning. The good was my weight. If my arithmetic still works, I would appear to have lost 1.3kg since yesterday morning. I know I was trying to be a bit careful about what I ate, but I still have no idea how I did it, and how I could do it again. My blood glucose, on the other hand, it terrible. The average of all three meters is 9.73mmol/l, and one of the readings hit the red line at 10.0mmol/l. I blame the stuff I ate as a sort of dessert after dinner. I must avoid that tonight !

  The critical measurement is my blood pressure. With a fair bit of discomfort that could be, and probably is attributable to heart/circulation problems, I was both pleased, and a bit bemused to see the blood pressure meter describe 116/70 as "Ideal". I am not so sure that a resting heartbeat of 75 bpm is good. I think, without any defined data to base it on, that 65 bpm would be a better pulse rate.

  Maybe since getting up I feel lass bad than earlier, but I still don't think I feel right. One more obvious thing is that despite thinking I have caught up with all my recent sleep deficit, I can't seem to stop yawning as I write these words. The idea of a snooze when I have finished writing this, and uploading it to my server, seems highly attractive - and will probably happen.

  I know what I would like to do today. I would like to take a walk through the park to The Jolly Farmers, and be served a pint of Guinness by Ayse, my favourite bar maid. The chances are that Ayse is still off work looking after her husband/partner who is seriously ill, and may not have long to live. That is one reason why I may not go. Another reason is that despite it being sunny as I write this, it could be raining by the time I would go out. That does not fill me with enthusiasm. The final reason for not going is that I am still unsure about the state of my heart. It often feels like it did before I got the new heart valve. It might be the case that the new valve is already failing - which would put me in a tricky condition ! The only slightly good thing is that my walk takes me right past A&E at Lewisham hospital, and it would be easy to go and book myself in complaining of chest pains if I was in pain while passing the place.

  All this is a huge dilemma. It is possible that Ayse may be working today. It is possible that the rain may not be that bothersome. It is possible that the walk may do more good than harm. It is probable that having a pint of Guinness for breakfast might not be a good idea. On top of all these pros and cons, I would like to take my new trousers out for a walk. Maybe I will just go for a shorter walk to see how my trousers and my heart feels. Maybe I might try and skip lunch, although a more likely thing is that I'll end up trying to have a very light lunch. Ideally I would have a very light dinner too, but that decision can wait for now.

  Oh well, let me find the word count of today's writing, and add it retrospectively here >1769 words< when I find out, and then once all this is uploaded to my web server I can lay down, and snooze for a while. Maybe I'll wash my hair and have a shower even if I am not going out - I suspect I need both !