As I write this we are having a lengthy sunny spell, but the sky doesn't show many blue areas, and the forecast for rain at 10am under an hour away now, does look quite possible. Having said that, the worst chance of rain today is put at only 47% at 2pm, and that is low enough that it could still be dry, and maybe with a sunny spell instead. Once again we can expect 16° C during the afternoon. By 5pm it may get much cloudier, but that will help the temperature stay up to 11° C by midnight. Tomorrow could see sunny spells in the morning and early evening, but the middle of the day will be dull (if the forecast matches reality). Tomorrow afternoon may see 17° C, but with no supporting sunshine.

  Yesterday was a fairly good day, although I can't say I felt very dynamic, and the day seemed to include at least one extra snooze. On the other hand I did do one and a half things, and although I nearly missed it, I did open the door to a courier I had been waiting for.

  I was expecting a delivery of beer from Beer 52 via Yodel yesterday, but there seemed to be very little information about when it would be delivered. Until about midday I was not even sure it was going to be delivered yesterday. On the plus side, it did seem I had plenty of time to have a shower, and wash my hair, and then go out shopping in Tesco around midday.

  The forecast was for light rain when I went out, but it was not raining, and it did feel almost warm. I dared to go out without a coat, and that worked out OK. Apart from the usual stuff I tend to buy, I was on the lookout for something to test my new (not so) mini oven/grill. That turned out to be (alleged) Southern Fried Flavour chicken breasts. I think I was really looking for something like a cut of beef or lamb on the reduced price shelf, but I would have paid full price if needed. The trouble was that I have trained myself not to look at cuts of meat that I could not easily cook before I got my new, not so mini, oven/grill.

  The walk to Tesco, using my green Adidas court shoes, was mostly OK, but I did notice my ankles starting to complain as I neared Tesco. Fortunately doing the shopping either distracted me, or the aches went away once I started walking far more slowly as I went around the store.

  One thing about shopping in Tesco is that I only use a hand basket rather than a trolley. That limits what I can buy and carry home easily. I filled the basket up to the top, but no more. It still cost a fair bit when I got to the checkout, but with a few of the heavier things in my rucksack I could fit the rest of my shopping into one big "bag for life" style shopping bag (but not one of the huge ones).

  Walking home with the extra weight didn't seem as bad as walking to Tesco. There was one big difference, although in the end it was only a minor difference. It was on the walk home that I caught one of the forecast showers, but it was so light that it was no bother at all. I am not sure if it was rain, or sweat that gathered on my forehead. It did seem quite warm out. If there had been sunshine instead of rain it would have been a lovely walk - even if a but sweaty !

  Once indoors I started putting my shopping away. It was then I discovered an extra bonus. My rucksack has a small inner pocket that I usually keep a spare shopping bag in. As I put the shopping bag back in the pocket I noticed some resistance. Upon looking in the pocket I found a packet of Liquorice Allsorts that I was sure I had bought from Poundstretcher some days ago, but couldn't seem to find when I got home. I don't like to spoil things by making the rare treat of liquorice allsorts common place. It was a delight have a few yesterday - almost too many !

  I had bought a couple of  packs of sandwiches in Tesco, and I scoffed both for my lunch. After that I decided it was time for a lie down, and possible snooze. By then I had found that my beer delivery was going to happen yesterday, but with no clue when it would be. It did make having a snooze dangerous, but I had one anyway - even if it must have been a very light sleep.

  I was first woken up by the local Conservative Candidate. I answered the door in just a pair of shorts because I thought maybe it was the postman. Standing there chatting to the Conservative Candidate in just shorts was not the way I would have liked it to happen. Fortunately she seemed very relaxed about it. She did seem a nice person - too nice to be a prospective right wing politician. It is a bit of shame she believes in a party that wants to abolish the NHS, and abolish many things that might cost big business mere peanuts - like health and safety stuff, and employment conditions.

  After that chat I went back up to my bedroom, and lay down again. I seemed to drift off to sleep for un unknown amount of time, but I was fortunately woke by the doorbell again. This time it was my beer delivery. I bellowed downstairs "wait a minute" as I made my way down the stairs, once again in my shorts, and also like before, with bare feet.  When I got to the front door I opened it to see the courier almost escaping, although he had left the two medium sized boxes of beer on my door step.

  Although I knew what I had ordered, it was still very exciting to open the boxes and see the cans for real instead of just as pictures. I managed to get just under the contents of one box (maybe 12 or 13 cans) into the beer fridges, but there was no room for any more. There are still beer left from my last order. This latest order was half paid for by Michael, and to (hopefully) keep him happy, most of the beers I had ordered were lagers or pilsners - they being his favourite style on beer.

  There is one other thing I started, but didn't finish yesterday. After my shower I put two hand towels in to soak in bio detergent in one of my big builders buckets. I can't remember when it was in the afternoon that I started the process of washing them. I got as far as wringing out the detergent, and wringing out two lots of rinsing water, but then I came to a stop.

  I think I stopped because I wanted to get my dinner cooking in the new oven/grill (the slightly less than "mini" one - maybe I should call it a small oven/grill). I intended to get back to those towels later, but as sometimes happens are still waiting for me this morning. I will have to get the (probable) next 10 rinses done before I hang them up to dry, and can then use the bath to have a shower.

  My new small oven/grill worked perfectly last night. The perfect thing was that the timer worked, and it finished roasting/grilling one of the Southern Fried Flavour chicken breasts on time, and done perfectly - at least I think it was perfect, although the only real criteria was that the chicken was thoroughly cooked. Maybe it might have been slightly over cooked because it was slightly tough.

  I should have had that chicken with something like roasted Mediterranean vegetables, or some other vegetable - even if it was just some chips, but I had another idea in mind. For dessert I had plain vanilla ice cream with quite a big individual portion of ready prepared "winter fruit salad". That salad was quite nice, although I question the sanity of including pomegranate seeds. I regard those as an not too nice nice jelly around a teeth breaking hard seed. I have no idea how they are supposed to be eaten. I spit out the hard seeds in the middle of their pink jelly, although ultimately I just didn't bother with most of them, and threw them out not even sucked.

  I guess I am really annoyed that the Dave channel have added a crap programme between Have I Got News For You, and QI. I guess it does have the advantage of getting to bed earlier because their is no way I am going to watch whatever that load of bollocks is called. It is another comedy quiz type show, but I don't seem to like the presenter or the panelists. It is like they selected all the people I don't like when they appear on QI, and lumped the worst together for the annoying show.

  From that you can gather than last night was almost a typical evening watching so TV before going to bed. Last night I was in bed early (maybe 10pm) and so I allowed myself to read for possibly as much as an hour before turning the light out. I assumed that I would fall asleep very quickly, but I assumed incorrectly. It was one of those nights when it seemed that I was uncomfortable fo many reasons. There was the old problem of the temperature being either too hot or too cold, and the bed growing lumps that were not there the previous night. I think it was over half an hour before I fell asleep.

  I think I got up to pee more than some nights, and at one point I thought I might have a poo. That never happened, and I didn't think it would happen when I got up. Fortunately I did manage to pass quite a solid poo, and then half an hour or maybe an hour later, I passed two more poo - poos that I never saw because it seemed they must have gone around the u-bend without stopping after dropping in the water. They felt like they must have been substantial, as they should have been because I am not sure if I went any time yesterday, but after disappearing from view I never know.

  The good news is that I did that second poo before breakfast and so I could weigh myself, and record that as my official weight for today. After that second visit to the toilet it seems that I have lost 600gm since yesterday morning. I was about to say that zeroes the 600gm I thought I put on yesterday, but that too was a 600gm loss. If I could do that for the next 4 days, which is highly unlikely, I might be able to report to the nurse on Monday morning, that I have actually lost some weight.

  Losing weigh is supposed to be what my Mounjaro injections are all about, but they seem to hinder more than help. The nice low blood glucose reading I often get (unless I have been very naughty) give me a false sense of security. This morning the average of my three blood glucose readings was 7.17mmol/l. That is lower than most days so far this month, although it is not particularly low. Somewhere in the region of 5.0 to 6.0 would be a very healthy reading, but a bit too much to expect from a diabetes sufferer.

  The main things on today's agenda are, obviously, to finish washing the two hand towels, and get them hanging up to dry. To have a quick shower, in preparation to the main thing today - another Thursday beer tastings session with Jodie and Michael. Michael will find what I have spent his money on (£50 towards a total bill of £92), and hopefully Jodie will find a few beers that she has not had before, or at least had before she signed up to Untappd, and so can book them in to maybe earn another (worthless) badge.