This morning feels mild enough, but the sky is grey. The afternoon may still reach 24° C, and it may feel a bit humid. Drizzle is forecast for 6pm, but with only a 37% of it happening, it will probably stay dry. Sunny spells are forecast for just 5pm and 7pm. Tomorrow may start off very grey, and there could be showers between 9am and 11am. The rest of tomorrow could be a lighter grey than today, and the afternoon may still reach 21° C.

  Yesterday, like the day before,  was good in places. I described my visit to the nurse yesterday when finishing yesterday's writing after I cam back from the surgery. It was probably the morning that was the best of the day.

  I can pick up the story of yesterday from lunchtime. I very much looked forward to lunch, but it was quite simple, and far lighter than dinner. There is actually very little to say about yesterday from the time I got home from the surgery. I did very little, and was mainly practicing being lazy.

  One thing I did do yesterday was not terribly important, and yet felt significant. One of the camera lenses I bought from Ebay had a daylight, UV, filter on it. That in itself is no problem, and some recommend you use one just as extra physical protection for the front of the lens. There was one potential problem, and that would have been if I had wanted to use a different filter. I could not unscrew the daylight filter because it was cross threaded. It could have even been the reason it ended up on Ebay.

  In the end only brute force and wilful ignorance solved the problem - as often happens. I tried a trick that often helps with getting tight lids off jars - using a rubber glove to give extra grip while trying to undo it. That didn't work this time. I resorted to using a hammer to force the filter level on the fine thread. There seemed to be enough give in the plastic to re-seat the filter without seeming to damage the thread. Of course once I got the filter off I applied a very thing smear of Vaseline (the best substitute for grease I had available) and screwed the filter back in - CORRECTLY ! It now unscrews and screws in again easily, and in the unlikely event I get some other filter I will be able to swap them easily. I think the price may be scary for an 86mm start filter, but that is one possible I might consider one day.

  Dinner was significant for a couple of reasons. It was, as usual, the biggest meal of the day, and yesterday I had 4 crispbakes, or whatever I should call them. One pair was cheese and bacon flavour, and the other corned beef. It suddenly occurs to me that the best way to describe them is that they were like fish cakes with no fish in them, but otherwise looking the same until opened.

  I also had a couple of plums, and rather more ice cream than planned. Using up the crispbakes was a deliberate act because in a couple of days time now I will be on my 4 day low fibre diet in the build up to my colonoscopy. Those crispbakes were not frozen, and would not have lasted until my diet and fasting was all over.

  My evening was the usual few hours of TV followed by going to bed modestly early. I wanted to do some intensive reading because I was within 6 or 7 pages of the end of the book I was reading - the 1st part of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy. I must admit that I had to force myself to keep my eyes open long enough to read the last couple of pages. I guess I did not so much read it as just looked at the words. I have no real idea how the story ended, but I expect I'll pick up any important details when I start to read the 2nd Foundation book some time today.

  My sleep was sort of uneventful. It could have been a dream, but I have a very hazy memory of a bit of insomnia at something like 3 or 4am. I also have a hazy memory of getting up to pee in the night - possibly twice, and I would not be surprised if it was three times or no times. One thing is for certain, I slept later than usual this morning. I think it was around 7am when I woke up.

  As usual I went to the toilet, and had a pee, but it seemed I was not ready for a poo. I did not have a poo until after I had had my breakfast of a bowl of instant noodles. After breakfast I did have a poo, and I weighed myself again. I was 200gm lighter than I was yesterday morning. Had I had my poo, and weighed myself before I had breakfast, it is possible I could knock off any extra 100gm, and maybe a tiny bit more.

  The real annoyance is that I somehow forgot to check my blood glucose before eating. All I can do now is do one quick check before lunch, and hope breakfast has not left it annoyingly high.

  The highlight today will be a beer tasting session with Jodie and Michael. Prior to that I need to do a bit of housework, and as well as cleaning and polishing the beer glasses, today could be the day I get the hoover out to hoover the dining room floor. I will admit it is looking very grubby. Before all that I will need a shower, but between these things I can be very lazy. My plan at the end of the beer tasting, or maybe a bit before, is to order two days worth of shish kebabs. On Saturday I start my special low fibre diet, and something super nice, like a shish kebab, before would help distract me from the grim reality of it all !