It is between 8 and 9° C as I write this, and the sun is doing it's best to shine, but the sky is covered by misty clouds that make it look pale grey. Maybe the sun will "burn" off more of that high level mist, but from 11am it is forecast to be more cloudy, and the day will be more grey. After 1pm the temperature will drop from today's high of 10° C to 9° C, but then it may stay there until well into the early hours of tomorrow morning. The temperature will stay there as we are wrapped in clouds that are forecast to produce light rain from 4pm, and not stop until sometime tomorrow. That sometime tomorrow could be 2pm. It should be dry, but still grey after that.

  Yesterday was, to some extent, a good day. I did a couple of jobs that I had been waiting to do, and I mostly felt OK. In some ways it was like a glorious Monday after a really boring Sunday. In fact it was a Monday, and the day before had been mostly boring !

  I described how I phoned the hospital to tell them I was cancelling my appointment when I wrote yesterday. I'll admit there was some slight guilt involved because I don't like to mess the NHS around, but on the other hand it felt great to feel free again. Of course it wasn't all sweetness and light. As I noted yesterday, my bottom was still trying to leak through most of the morning, but gradually I felt more confident to not stay so close to the toilet.

  The first job I did was not a 100% success. I decided that now I had a brand new fan for my little beer fridge it was time to replace the fan that had become too noisy to use. Apart from identifying the connections to the new fan - 4 black wires, and one had a vague stripe on it that I assumed was the positive wire. I hoped the next wire was the negative, and I could ignore the other two because they were for a tachometer that was not used in the fridge.

  Opening up the back of the fridge was easy enough, although two of the screws had Torx® screws - maybe to deter casual tinkerers. I had the correct Torx driver, and so that was no problem. I have to admit I guessed the size of the fan I needed, but I hit lucky, and apart from having to identify the wires, it was an easy fit. Before putting the back on I plugged it in, and the new fan spun, and did it very quietly.

  What I didn't realise was there was also an internal fan, and that will soon need to be replaced, but with the door closed it is quiet enough. The only other problem is that since it has been at room temperature it seems some spills in there (I had a bottle explode on one occasion) it smells mouldy inside. I cleaned it out, but I think the smell is coming from a drip tray that doesn't seem removable.

  That job, as I said, was not a 100% success, but it is good enough for now, and the beer cans in it are now nice and chilled, and ready for drinking. It felt good to get that job done. I have worked out how to get to the internal fan, and I shall consider changing that in due course.

  One other job I started yesterday is a bit of a tedious and boring job. It is also ridiculously simple, and was also triggered by the same delivery that included the new fridge fan, all the way from China. It was sheets of stickers in the shape of stars in assorted colours. I was only interested in the gold and the red stars yesterday.

  Three of my big Nikon camera are "full frame" cameras, and they need lenses that can focus a big enough image on the sensor in the camera. If they don't then you get "Vignetting" - shading at the edges of the picture. Sometimes it doesn't matter because you can crop the photo to get rid of the shaded edges. My job yesterday was to stick gold starts on those three full frame cameras (the Nikon D310s, D610, and D700), and then go through my lenses and stick gold stars on each lens that was OK to use with those three cameras. I have accumulated quite a selection of lenses, and I didn't have the patience to check each one. In an ideal world I would check each lens on each camera, but would be taking caution to the extreme. I think I managed to do the lenses I use the most.

  Once I could finish the low fibre diet I was on I was looking forward to some sort of feast. Had I gone for my colonoscopy, and whether I had actually had it, or even if I had been sent home (or more likely A&E for extreme blood pressure) I was going to order a super tasty takeaway (I was thinking maybe of a Chinese takeaway). That never happened, although from time to time I might still have done it.

  Instead of a takeaway treat, I had stuff in the fridge that it was useful to use up. 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. I stuffed all thatw as left in the packet into a single bread roll, and had that for lunch. My dinner was a pack of two Scotch eggs that were right on their use by date, and I had them with low sugar baked beans. That was actually quite a disappointing dinner. I also had some honey and lime flavoured cashew nuts, and some chocolate for snacks. Oh, and almost forgot, I had some ice cream for a dessert after my dinner.

  All I ate yesterday was not ideal for weight loss, but some had to be eaten before it went off. It is my intention to try and part follow the low fibre diet when I can. Mostly that will mean more cheese rolls, but maybe some variation like chicken instead of cheese, and even sliced meat not on the low fibre list - stuff like beef and ham.

  Entertainment on TV seemed a bit thin again last night. It is almost as if they are saving up the best repeated stuff for Xmas - either that or they have new comedies that are not funny, or have characters I don't like, or new dramas that fail to arouse any interest. I did find some stuff on TV last night, and I think it kept me up until 10pm. I then read in bed for some time (maybe half an hour, possibly longer) before putting the book down, turning out the light, and I think I fell asleep fairly quickly.

  I had stopped taking my diuretic tablets for a couple of days before my colonoscopy appointment, and I think I only took the Dandelion Root capsules yesterday. They are not so effective as the Furosemide tablets, and in consequence I did not seem to wake up to pee more than once - and the memory of that is so vague I am not sure it actually happened. It would seem like I had a good sleep. I don't recall any dreams except for a slight itch in my brain that suggests maybe I did have a dream, but no details are left in my memory.

  This morning my weight is up, and it is probably partly because of not peeing much, and eating a bit more generously yesterday. I would seem to have gained 1.7kgm since yesterday, but this morning my weight is exactly the same as it was four morning ago, and on that occasion I thought it was very good. This is one reason why I want to try and spend some days, but maybe not weekends, following the same sort of diet I was following as part of the low fibre diet.

  My blood glucose is still fairly good. It is not as good as yesterday, but an average of 7.43mmol/l for all three meters could still be called very good. Today I will use up the last of my Ozempic injector. I don't think there is a full dose in there. but I'll take all it can offer. I don't see the nurse again until the 25th, but I think she said the injector is on repeat, and I can just ask the pharmacy for a repeat prescription.

  Today is not forecast to be a good day weather-wise, but I feel tempted to go out. It could be a shopping trip, and there are a few things it would be good to buy either today, or in the next couple of days. On the other hand I do want to go and feed some squirrels in the park, and get a few snaps of them. A sunny day, even if cold, would be better for photography, but I could put on a winter coat if I did go out. While it's dry I expect my leather jacket would be fine. I do have one more leather jacket I have yet to try. It is a proper motorcyclist's jacket - very thick, very heavy, and has padding for when you come off you bike at 100mph ! To be honest I don't like it, but I can imagine it could be very warm in freezing weather, and so I'll have to try it one day.