The first few hours of today were dull, but I think it was a bright sort of dull ! From 9am full sunshine is forecast until sunset. That will take the temperature up to 28° C after a fairly cool start. last night escaped being another tropical night, and even now it still feels fairly fresh (currently 22° C at 10am). Tomorrow could start as low as 15° C, and the first few hours will only feature sunny spells. Full sunshine may only start at midday, and tomorrow afternoon may only reach 26° C. That should still be nice and warm in the sunshine, but not too warm.

  Yesterday was quite a good day for some types of good. Despite saying I ought to go out somewhere, I stayed in all day, but I managed to control my sugar intake well enough to get my blood glucose level down to almost sane levels. That was helped by re-discovering a few facts about some things.

  Yesterday morning my blood glucose was not as insanely high as the previous morning, but I guess it was still high enough to sap my energy. On the other hand, it seem to be just low enough to stop me peeing, and more importantly, sweating so much. The less sweating, although I think I remember it as not much sweating at all, was probably helped by the temperature being lower, and mostly keeping in range of several desk fans around the place.

  I guess my whole day boiled down to watching my sugar intake to try and get my blood glucose readings down to a safe level. At the moment it is seeming like I can't rely on Ozempic to control my blood glucose the same way that Mounjaro did. It may be that I have started Ozempic at a very small dose (just 2.5mg). I shall query this when I see the nurse in about 3 weeks.

  I thought that yesterday was going to involve a lot of fasting, and then just eating things like Twiglets, like I did the day before. That fasting and careful diet did make a useful improvement, and I felt no need to be as disciplined for a second day running. On the other hand I could not through away the small gain I had made. It may have been around lunchtime when I decided to check the sugar content of quite a few of the instant noodles packs/pots I have.

  In the meantime, I did some light snacking instead of breakfast. Yesterday, or the day before, I mentioned that giant Wotsits seemed to have a very small amount of sugar in them.
   The fact that they are baked instead of fried means their calorie content is moderately low, but the sugar content of just 1.1gm per 30gm is what interested me. 30gm does not sound much, and because they are mostly air, they do crumble/melt down to about the size of a pea when chewed. 30gm is a little more than you can balance on one hand, palm up. It is not exactly filling, but popping in one at a time makes it seem more substantial than it really is - and illusion plays a big part in regulating eating it seems.

  I knew that Giant Wotsits were fairly safe, and mentioned them yesterday or the day before. My other discovery was possibly more like a reminder of something I discovered years ago. It is that many packs or pots of instant noodles can have quite small amounts of sugar in them. One flavour that surprised me was "Tomato hot pot". Tomatoes have a lot of sugar in them, and the sauce for the tomato hot pot instant noodles seems to be rendered down tomato, but to my surprise I found that one packet only has something like 5gm of sugar (and it may be less).

  Some of the instant noodles I have here have even less sugar in them. It meant that I could dare to have two pots of instant noodles for dinner yesterday, and remain fairly confident that I would find my blood glucose was even lower this morning.

  I don't think there is a lot to add about yesterday. I spent much of the day reading and snoozing, but some of the reading was looking at the internet, and some of that was not reading but looking at pictures. One problem, if it can be called a problem, is that I had all the time in the world, and didn't need to stop looking/reading.

  A lot of the reading was of the Internet Archive. It is like diving down a rabbit hole - you never know what you discover down there. This is one starting point that could lead to all sorts of stuff https://archive.org/details/TheRadioCarolineStoryProducedByPaulKramer1965 Most stuff on the archive is freely downloadable, and it covers just about anything that can be digitised. I even found iso files for copies of ancient magazine cover discs.

  The other place I seemed to be captivated by was https://www.aliexpress.com/ They have page after endless page of all sorts of stuff sold online from China. I tend to buy form them instead of Amazon these days. There are some things you have to be aware of. The most important thing is to read very carefully what you are buying. What looks like a mobile phone is only a slip on cover for one - for instance. Sometimes it looks like you may be buying several similar items, but you have to select each item separately. If you have the patience for the long delivery times, and are careful about ordering what you actually want, it is cheaper than Amazon. They do loads of electronic/computer stuff, but also stuff like women's underwear. As a one time admirer of the Freemans Catalogue about 55 years OK, it is almost as exciting (laugh).

  Yesterday evening was the usual BBC 6 O'clock news followed by other select TV programmes. I thought I finished TV quite early last night - I think I recollect 10pm. I suppose it was the heat, even if yesterday was not nearly as bad as some recent days, but once I was laying on my bed I felt so sleepy that I barely attempted to read as intended. I would be surprised if I was not sleeping deeply by 11pm.

  Maybe "sleeping deeply" is a slight exaggeration, but I don't recall waking up to pee more than once, and that could have just been a dream. With hindsight, I think I can say the lack of peeing was due to my reduced blood glucose level, although it was still a lot higher than desired. It was sometime after 4am when I was woken up by some sort of noise. I suspect it was actually next door doing something, but I got up for a quick look around upstairs. I was not sure how open I had left the spare bedroom window. It was only open a few inches, and not enough for Cous Couse (aka "Fluffycat") to get through as he did once.

  It was when checking the spare bedroom window that I looked out the window and saw the fox working industriously digging out a new earth. I suspected he, or maybe it is actually a she, had started to dig when I could see freshly turned earth, but in the first light of dawn I could see he or she had dug enough to actually disappear under the earth. I suspect I may find  in a few months, a new family of foxes ripping my garden apart like last time.

  It was a shame it seemed a bit too dim, and the view too obscured, to video any of the digging. After watching for 15 to 25 minutes I went back to bed, and after a while I fell asleep again. It was then that I know I had a dream, and I can remember thinking that it was worth describing, but now I can't seem to remember why. Another interesting dream like dust in the wind.

  When I got up again, a few hours later I needed a small pee, and I thought I needed a poo, but that didn't happen until later, and didn't even seem significant. I obviously ate more than I though yesterday because my weight did not go down. It was exactly the same as yesterday, although maybe if I had passed the size of poo I expected, I may have lost at least 100gm and maybe more.

  The best news, although still short of expectations/hopes was my blood glucose. This morning I got readings of 9.6, 9.1, and 8.9mmol/l. Only the latter reading is just about acceptable, but with the other 2 being under 10mmol/l, it seems I am out of the danger zone, although still teetering on the edge. I need to be careful for at least a few more days. The three readings average to 9.2mmol/l, and only one reading was lower than that so far this month. Ironically it was the day after I had my first Ozempic injection - which seemed to do nothing for me !

  This morning I had the last of the Giant Wotsits as part of my breakfast, and I am not even sure there was 30gm left in the packet. I followed them up with a pack of fruit that was well past it's use by date. It was apple, pineapple and black grapes. I reasoned that rotten fruit was easy to spot, and at worst it would have started fermenting into cider or something. It did taste a bit acidic as if lemon juice had been added to stop the apple going brown, but nothing is shown on the list of ingredients - which only lists the three fruits.

  The main plan for today is a beer tasting session with Jodie. We are not usually joined by Michael, but he might turn up, and maybe Alan or mark might join us, but I am basically only expecting Jodie. Of course beers can contain a lot of sugars, although some can contain almost none. German Pilsners, and Guinness are noted for having almost no sugar in them. Some thick black imperial stouts can have loads and loads of it - which is a shame because they are truly delicious (as well as being very potent - maybe up around 12% !).

  One thing I was going to do this morning was to take a train ride to Bellingham station - one stop from Catford station. It has been briefly renamed as Bellingham Jude (or Jude Bellingham) in honour of some footballer. I know little of these football things, but I'd like to get a couple of snaps of the temporary name plates, and I believe it is also shown with that name on customer information screens. Sadly I feel it would be too much of a rush to do that before Jodie arrives, but it could be the trigger of a long outing tomorrow. Time will tell.....