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  Yesterday was another wonderful sunny day. The afternoon reached 19° C, and for the first time this year I opened my bedroom window for the whole afternoon. Even by midnight the temperature was still 11° C.   Today promises to be even better than yesterday. The sky is clear, and the sun has been shining since it first rose this morning. It should stay shining, non stop, all day. That could raise the afternoon temperature to a glorious 23° C according the BBC, or even 25° C according to the Met Office. Even tonight may be mild, perhaps 11 to 13° C. Tomorrow may not be as good, but still not too bad. Tomorrow should be dry, but the sunshine will be reduced to sunny spells, and even they may not last all day. The afternoon temperature should still reach 19° C.

   Only a few significant things happened yesterday. I had imagined I might do more, but it turned out to be only imagination. In one respect this is good because I have started writing so late that the less I have to write about, the quicker I can finish.

  The most significant thing yesterday I did mention yesterday morning, and it was to clear the lower gutter of quite a jungle. I did say I might do that as well as going out for a walk. I found I didn't fancy going for a walk, If it was the only thing I could do I might have forced myself, but maybe clearing the lower gutter seemed like all the excitement I needed for the day.
   Standing on a chair, with the top window of the spare bedroom fully open, enabled this view of this weed growing by the outlet pipe for the guttering of the main roof. The weed was not embedded in the tiles, and came away easily when I pulled it. You can just see the next thing to tackle a little further down the lower roof guttering.
  This is the view looking down the guttering of the lower roof. It features several clumps of weeds. There was no way I can reach that far without a special tool. It started life as a telescopic pole for cleaning windows, but being a Poundland item it was cheap and nasty. The most nasty/stupid thing is that the clamps that should lock the three sections together don't ! I modified it by taking off the cleaning head, and clamping a small garden trowel on the end. To stop the sections moving I have to use Duct/Gaffer tape.
  My special tool does work, but in an ideal world the trowel at the end would be a bit smaller, and maybe curved to match the curvature of the gutter. Another improvement would be to clamp on a brush to brush out the silt that the trowel can't get rid of. That silt is what allows the plants to grow. Without it I probably would not have to do this gutter cleaning ritual every few years. Oh well, when the April showers start the water can now flow along the gutter, and down the down pipe.

  While I didn't take advantage of walking in the bright and warm sunshine, I did make use of it in one way. It seemed quite warm enough to not just open my bedroom window, but to leave it open for most of the afternoon. It made my bedroom smell a bit fresher....at least I hope it did.

  Other things I did yesterday was to do all the washing up waiting for me in the kitchen sink. I was about to say that I also spent some time preparing food, but it was all ready prepared to either eat cold or to heat up to eat warm. My lunch was fairly small, but my dinner was a bit too generous. That dinner started off with a bowl of instant noodles, and they were followed by a chicken in black bean sauce with rice, ready meal. Up to that it was just about reasonable, but....

  I wanted to eat one of the ready made fruit salads I had in the fridge with some ice cream. The grapes and blue berries would have gone well with plain vanilla ice cream, but I had an opened tub of hazlenut flavoured ice cream styled to look like "Nutella", and it had a thick crust of chocolate, as well as lumps of chocolate in the ice cream itself. I have to confess I got carried away, and ate the 2/3rds that were in the tub after a more restrained tasting of it. Along with the sweet grapes, I am probably luck my blood glucose didn't go through the roof.

  That reminds, me, the thought of all that sugar made me remember that it was time for my next Mounjaro injection yesterday. I had it in the early evening instead of the morning like I usually do. It is possible that saved my blood glucose going too high.

  I think I can describe my evening very simply and very quickly by just stating I watched the BBC 6 O'clock news, and followed that by the usual stuff I watch until I go to bed. I think I went to bed at around 10pm, and I read in bed for maybe 20 minutes. I have to say that the book I am currently reading, "Speaker For The Dead" by Orson Scott Card, is not as good as the first book in a series of 5. I am wondering if I have wasted my money by ordering the 5 book boxed set - particularly as I already own 2 of the five books. Time will tell.

  I think I probably slept OK last night. To my surprise I did not get up to pee many times in the night. Even though the Mounjaro is controlling my blood glucose, I still expected a high spike in blood glucose that would get me up peeing a lot. I think it was around 3am when I got up expecting to poo. I don't think anything happened, but I was left with a sort of mild constipation feeling.

  That mild constipation feeling, a sort of feeling that something should happen rather than any specific discomfort, continues even now, but in an even milder way. I did pee a couple of time in the night, and I peed when I got up. I also managed a small poo. I was still not happy when I weighed myself. Things were a bit better after a second, more satisfying poo, that still seemed not quite big enough. Maybe I still have another poo to go.

  The last time I weighed myself, after the last poo (and pee) I found I had still gained 800gm. I guess I really did over eat yesterday. Fortunately my blood glucose is fair this morning. The average of all three readings was 7.6mmol/l, and only a little bit higher than yesterday's 7.4mmol/l.

  This morning I am skipping breakfast, and I want to try and make lunch as small as I can manage. I still have a sort of twitchy feeling from my bottom, and it suggests I will be having another poo sooner of later. It is for that reason I have abandoned my plan to go out today. I had been thinking of a train ride to Southend, and a bit of photography of the seascape. Maybe even a walk to the end of the one and third mile pier, and walk back again.  One problem with Southend, apart from it being a bit crap, is that the "beach" (a mix of estuarine mud and gravel) faces south - straight into the sun, and so it is not the ideal place for seascape photography.

  I may still go out today, even if it is just to the local shops. I could almost be tempted to go shopping in Aldi, but that may bring too many temptations when I want to cut down my food intake. I was mainly thinking of getting some beers that I can drink by myself, without Jodie moaning that I didn't save any for her. Aldi have plenty of beers that Jodie will have had so many times before that she would not be interested in them. Oh well, tomorrow we will have an "official" beer tasting session, and she can "supervise" what we drink from the beer fridges. If I do go for a walk in the park today, I think I will definitely be justified wearing my shorts in the warm sunny weather.
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