It is between 8 and 9° C again as I write this, and the rain continues to fall....although maybe it has stopped, or just paused, or maybe it is currently too fine to see. I just checked next doors kitchen extension roof, and that nice flat surface does show that some very light rain continues to fall. This afternoon may be just 9° C, and in the rain that will not feel good. The rain may stop at 5pm. After 7pm the temperature will start to fall - first to 8° C, and then 7° C by midnight. It will get colder still. Tomorrow could start at 5° C, and at 7am it may have dropped to 4° C, but it will then rise. A nice sunny afternoon should see a finger tingling 7° C. By midnight it may be down to 4° C, ad after that it may fall to 3° C.

  Yesterday seemed as if it should be a good day. My stomach seemed to return to normal after the intended effects of the Plenvu that emptied and then washed out my bowels. That barely lasted the day, but more about that coming soon. There were a few good things during the day.

  It was premature to believe it, but one of the first good things yesterday was in the morning, and I let out a fairly big fart with no fear of soiling myself ! I was still unsure when I wrote the notes about yesterday morning, but I was definitely thinking of going shopping. I fancied treating myself to stuff I was forbidden to eat during my 4 day low fibre diet. In light of later events I am not sure if doing so would have been good or bad.

  In the end I didn't go shopping. I thought I had plenty to eat already, even if much of it was pretty basic stuff. There were some items I had to set aside during that low fibre diet, and I intended to get back to them after the diet was over. As I wrote yesterday, "One was a packet of pastrami that had been open for about 6 days. I was not sure if it was still fresh, but after all the Plenvu was doing to me, a little more stomach upset would not matter". That was probably quite prophetic, and also wrong !

  I had instant noodles for breakfast because I had been missing them during the low fibre diet. It was lunchtime when I stuffed the last of the packet of pastrami into a roll, and ate it. It didn't taste quite right, but I didn't think it tasted off. With hindsight it probably was off.

  Later on in the afternoon I seemed to be doing some quite powerful burps. One was powerful enough to carry a bit of sick high enough up my throat to taste it, and it burnt my throat with stomach acids. That was the first signs of worse to come.

  I did have one good distraction at 5.20pm. The last of the stuff I had ordered from Aliexpress arrived. It was all batteries. A pile of button cells to power various LED based "toys", and some little torches I have. Those torches could also be called toys, but on rare occasions they are handy. The bigger batteries were 4 spare batteries for my Waterproof Fuji cameras. The bigger of the two cameras eats batteries, and eates them really fast if you use it to shoot video. It produces very good video results, but 10 minutes of shooting can flatten the battery. Having a pocketful of spares is a very handy thing to have. It was also handy that those 4 batteries also came with a charger, and the entire cost was just £17.60p !

  It was a gradual thing, and so it is hard to pin it to a time when my guts took a turn for the worst. I had been burping, and previously mentioned, and at some time that was joined by farting. My guts sounded like a kettle on the boil. I can only pin the blame on that Pastrami, and it did make a difference after suffering from the effects of PlenVu (the hospital strength laxative and bowel washer).

  I think I made it through a lot of the evening when I farted, and it did not feel right. I ran to the toilet, and fortunately I had not soiled myself even if it hinted I might have done, but once seated on the toilet I did pass a small amount of diarrhoea. To keep a very long feeling story short, I spent the rest of the evening, and the first 3 or 4 hours of this morning dashing to the toilet, and by midnight I was having a full on diarrhoea attack. By then the worst of the belching had finished - I presume because the stuff causing all the gas in my stomach had moved further down into the intestines.

  I think it was getting on for 4am this morning when I felt it was safe enough to try for sleep. I fell asleep really quickly once I let go, but I may have only got an hours sleep before I woke up again. I woke up from a dream that involved being on Jeremy Clarkson's "Didly Squat"  farm. I think some of it was set inside his pub, and it involved a pub game where you had to shoot (somehow) a small plastic ball at a target that would spin around if you hit it on the target area. I think I played it to pass the time while waiting for a lift back to civilisation.

  I had to make one more semi rapid visit to the toilet this morning, but I only passed a small amount, and it did see like the final salvo......although having said that.....as I write this I am wondering if more is about to happen. At the time I prioritised getting more sleep, and I think I may have managed to add and hour or two. I still feel that I am in sleep deprivation, and I hope I can get in a snooze or three this morning, and afternoon.

  This morning. despite thinking I had emptied myself out again, I seemed to have gained 600gm since yesterday morning. It could be why I think there is more diarrhoea lurking in the wings. My blood glucose is very slightly raised, but 7.47mmol/l compared to yesterday's 7.43mmol/l is not worth arguing over. My blood pressure is, if anything, a bit low this morning. It was 107/69 with a heart rate of 87bpm.

  The only thing I will definitely do today is to try and catch up on some lost sleep by (hopefully) having a few long snoozes today. I may have a shower, and may go shopping, but there is no pressing need to go out in the rain for anything today. I may wash a couple of hand towels if I can raise the enthusiasm.