Another 8° C start to the day ! Today will probably be dry, although a small chance is shown from mid evening. However, it is forecast as a completely dull day with no hint of sunshine no matter how brief. The afternoon should reach 11° C, but by 3pm it will drop to 10° C, and from 11pm it will be down to 9° C. There is not even a small chance of any rain tomorrow, but the day will be dull, and possibly very dull for the first couple of hours. The highest temperature forecast for tomorrow will be 11° C at 1pm, but before and after that it will be 10° C. The morning and evening may only be 9° C,

  Yesterday was another unexciting day (except for one short period), and I did go shopping in Tesco. That was another short period of being slightly exciting.

  A lot of yesterday is going to sound like it was depressing, and it was. It was the second to last day when I could eat freely without having to stick to the instructions prior to my (attempted) colonoscopy. While on the subject of Colonoscopys, and similar, I keep calling the place where it happens the Enterology department. It is actually the Endoscopy Unit - same unpleasantness, different name.

  My visit to Tesco was mainly to stock up on the stuff for my special low fibre diet that starts tomorrow, and ends at 9am on Sunday (the day before my attempted colonoscopy). It was no more than white bread rolls, a few assorted ready sliced cheeses, some (alleged) spreadable Anchor butter, and finally, a couple of tubs of plain vanilla ice cream. I also bought just two bottles of Diet Coke - my instructions say I can drink clear fluids, and that could include Diet Coke and even Lager, but I suspect not. I bought an 8 pack of 500ml bottles of sparkling spring water, because I can definitely drink water.

  The special diet and having to drink just water, has not started yet, and I am already fed up with it. It is made worse by the knowledge that it may well be all for nothing. If I can't control my blood pressure, by fair means of foul (and I suspect foul my be the only option that may work - mostly an extra 10mg Bisoprolol tablet in the morning) I will either be sent to A&E again, or sent home. I will go home anyway because the last time in A&E just made things worse. A good meal and a snooze will be a perfect cure.

  Another annoyance I realised yesterday was that I have a big punnet of plums, and they are on the forbidden high fibre list. There is no way I can finished the whole lot today. I also have some Cox's apples, and I hope they may survive in the chiller (not the freezer). Maybe the plums will as well. I'll just have to see how they go.

  The rest of yesterday can be summed up as reading, snoozing, feeling miserable and watching TV. I think it was 11pm when I went to bed. I thought I could read for a bit, but I was more tired than I thought. I barely read a few words before putting the book down, and going to sleep.

  My sleep was interrupted by the need to get up to pee several times. The only change there is that I definitely remember it happening at least twice, and I strongly suspect there was a third time. I also remember enough of a dream that I can describe a few bits of it. It was set on the banks of a shallow river, and there were quite a few mums there with their sprogs in pushchairs/buggies.

  One buggie, maybe a large child's toy, seemed to be abandoned. I mentioned this to somebody, although I have no idea who. All I know is that he wanted a way to transport a cannabis plant in a big pot, and the buggie/pushchair seemed to suit his needs. I am sure I woke up before I actually saw him grab the buggie and it would have been later still when he put the plant in it.

  This morning I woke up with mild guts ache because of constipation. That is something I could do without when knowing that on Monday a doctor will be wanting to push a camera up my bottom ! I did eventually pass a poo of unknown size. It felt like it might have been fairly large, but it seems it bounced off the bottom of the toilet pan, and went straight around the U-bend.

  After that, and the pee that I had on the second visit to the toilet, I weighed myself. I seem to have lost 300gm since yesterday - which is good news. My blood glucose, which I can expect to go haywire until the Colonoscopy is over (or cancelled), and everything is back to normal, was fairly normal. The average of all three meters was 8.6mmol/l. Yesterday it was a better 7.63mmol/l, but 8.6mmol/l is not bad.

  This morning I had a shower and washed my hair. It was partly an experiment to see if the water pressure was a bit higher earlier in the morning. It seemed to be so because the shower water seemed to be mildly warm - which was better than tepid the last time.

  Apart from definitely needing to wash my hair, and a shower being a good idea, it was mostly done because today I am expecting Jodie, and maybe Michael over for a beer tasting session. I've brought it forward a day because tomorrow I start the preparations for my Colonoscopy attempt. Michael has already said he probably can't make it, but he says that so often, and then turns up, that I don't expect today to be any different.