This morning started off with sunny spells, but they will turn to full sunshine about now (11am). The afternoon should reach 25° C thanks to full sunshine. It should feel like summer again. Even tonight should be a bit milder than last night. Unfortunately it seems it might just be a one day wonder. Tomorrow should see 23° C, but there will be no sunshine, not even sunny spells, after about 8am. It should still be dry, but there may be rain in the early hours of tomorrow night (Tuesday).

  Yesterday featured two bothersome things, and they combined to make the first day of my 4 day low fibre diet to be not as low fibre as it could have been. On the other hand, it was more like a weight loss diet - which was good.

  Yesterday might have featured some excitement. One source said I would be getting a package from Amazon - my new 5G phone - and another said it would arrive today. both sources were Amazon. One was an email, and the other their web site. This morning their web site said that the delivery day had been changed from yesterday to today, but that only happened at about 10pm last night - maybe when they realised they had forgotten to deliver my package which was reported to have been at the delivery depot at just after 7am yesterday morning. Most/all Amazon drivers don't seem to leave the depot until lunchtime, and so it should, or could have been out for delivery yesterday.

  Yesterday was the first day of my low fibre diet in preparation for my colonoscopy this coming Wednesday. I actually started it with a cheese and bean wrap, and that was definitely not low fibre, but it had to be eaten or go to waste. I did not have any lunch, but at 6pm I had my dinner. It was a Tesco Triple Pack of cheese sandwiches. One was made with a light wholemeal type bread, and that was not low fibre either. Apart from the onion in the cheese and onion sandwich, I think the other two were almost OK. As planned, I had a portion of plain vanilla ice cream for dessert after my dinner.

  It was both easy, and not easy (it changed almost by the minute) to regulate my eating, and while I wouldn't do it by choice, I didn't suffer too badly. It was not really intended, but it was quite good for me - as I discovered this morning, but more about that near the bottom of this page - which could be quite soon.

  Apart from fretting about Amazon's will they, or won't they, deliver yesterday, I did not do a lot yesterday. I spent a fair time reading, and I had at least one snooze. I also had an almost snooze - I remember laying on my back with my eyes closed. More time seemed to pass than I can account for, and so I must have been asleep even though I don't actually remember being asleep.

  My evening was just the usual. I had dinner at 6pm, as described above, and watched the news on the BBC News Channel.

STOP PRESS: An email has just arrived to say my package (my new 5G mobile phone) will be delivered between 2:45 pm and 6:45 pm today.

  Back to yesterday evening, and there is little to say beyond the usual - watched some TV, read for a while, turned out the light, and was probably fast asleep as early as 11pm. I know I had at least one dream last night, but I can only speculate that it was about something I had been thinking of yesterday evening. I had been thinking of ways to take a better picture of someone.

  I think the person I am thinking of is "on the spectrum", or in other words a bit autistic. The trouble is she is a regular at many gigs I might go to, and so she could appear in a photo. The problem is that she has a very wooden face. I somehow doubt she would want to improve it, but there is probably a lot she could do if she would listen to a photographer like me. To be honest I know nothing about women's make up, but I do remember when friend Sue got a voucher to visit a studio for some professional photos. Sue looked almost rough until she was seen by the make up artist in the studio. I know she would complain if she was made up in some flamboyant, unnatural make up, but the lady doing it was s professional. She seemed to just enhance Sue's natural features without making it obvious. The photos came out with Sue looking good.

  Funnily enough, the picture Sue liked best was taken by me. I used my little pocket Nikon, and too the photo outside the studio on a main road in Wimbledon. It was not composed in any way. I just whipped the camera out of my pocked and said "say cheese" at the same time as pointing the camera in the right direction, and taking the photo.
  Somehow the light was right, and she still benefited from the work of the professional make up artist. It is a shame she was holding a pack of fags in one hand, and had a carrier bag over her arm like some sort of bag lady. I printed the picture on glossy photo paper, and put it in a cheap Poundland frame. As far as I am aware it is still displayed on her sideboard in her living room.

  I think it was not long after 5am that I woke up this morning in need of a pee. It was quite a big one ! I went back to bed after that, and I didn't think I would fall asleep again, but I did, and I think I slept for about 90 minutes. During that time I am sure I had another dream, but any details are long gone. When I woke up I found I needed another pee, and I thought I needed a poo, but that was just wind.

  When I got on the scales I was not really expecting to see much weight loss. I thought there might have been some because I ate less than usual. I was rather shocked to see I had lost around 2kg ! That is a lot for just 24 hours hours, and it didn't include a poo (which still has not happened yet - that is the trouble with a low fibre diet). I wondered if my blood glucose might be extra low. It was good, but nothing spectacular. The average of all three meters was 7.17mmol/l. I had several slightly low averages last month. My blood pressure this morning was a good (I think) 123/70, although my pulse rate of 81 is faster than I feel is good.

  Today the low fibre diet continues. This morning my breakfast was one cheese roll - a white bread roll with butter on it. I didn't add any onion, or pickle, but it was nice enough. I could easily have eaten three of them, or even four, but I kept myself under control. I will probably have another at lunchtime. Later this afternoon I should be joined by Jodie for a beer tasting session. I think my no fibre rule will mean no nasty cloudy beers today, and maybe just some basic clear and sparkling lagers. Then I will have to resist eating the rest of the rolls filled with cheese, or even worse, corned beef.