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Sunday 3rd May 2026 |
08:30 BST
Yesterday saw the first
break in the recent nice weather. The
morning featured sunny spells and a
couple of house of non stop sunshine,
but then at 2pm it clouded over, and
at 3pm we had the first rain in ages.
It was not heavy rain, except for
perhaps a short while, but it did
continue into the night. The afternoon
reached 21° C, and it was 14° C at
midnight.
The forecast does not show any
sunshine this morning, and yet it
is bright and sunny as I write
this, and I think it has been for
the last hour. I can see lots of
blue sky with some patches of
white cloud, and it looks like
there is a fair chance of the
sunshine, or at least sunny
spells, continuing for some time
yet. The forecast says rain will
resume at 2pm, but it may finish
at 7pm. The afternoon may still
reach a pleasant 19° C for a short
time. Tomorrow is forecast to be
generally dull, and there could be
light rain from mid afternoon
onwards. Tomorrow will also be
cooler with just 17° C predicted
for the afternoon.
Yesterday had it's good
bits, and bad bits, although the
bad bits were really neutral
rather than actually bad. There
was one bad thing that I'll come
to later - it was my own fault,
even if I did not realise it at
the time....although I should
have.
I seemed to take a long
time to finish writing yesterday's
diary, and I am not sure why, and
just how late it was. The
significance of that is that I
potentially had only a time window
of a couple of hours to do stuff
before I went into high alert
mode, waiting for the doorbell to
ring, and the arrival of the
parcel with the last of my recent
order from Aliexpress. I had time
to finish washing the two hand
towels I had started washing the
previous day. It just took another
6 rinses before I gave up trying
to get the rinse water free of
soap, and hung them up to dry.
I could have had time to
wash my hair and have a shower
after I had finished the laundry,
but it didn't feel that important,
and the possibility of my parcel
turning up while I was covered in
soap was not a chance I wanted to
take. The previous delivery from
Evri arrived at 1pm, and that
seemed fairly early, and I may not
have finished washing by then
(although I probably would have).
This time my parcel was delivered
at 2pm, and so I would have had
plenty of time - if only I had
known that in advance.
One thing I did fit in
while waiting was some lunch. It
was a single deli-style roll (a
petit pain as some call them) cut
into two (lengthwise), and toasted
because the rolls were getting a
bit stale and rather dry and
chewy. I then put some ham and
grated cheese on each half, and
continued toasting until the
cheese was melting. I ate both
halves like open sandwiches, and I
have to say they were rather
delicious.
At 2:14pm my parcel
arrived. It was a 10 inch portable
TV bought rather cheaper from
Aliexpress than my original one
bought from Amazon. It was to
replace the 10 inch TV I lent to
Michael to see if he like it. One
thing that TV, and the new one had
was the facility to record TV
programmes onto a memory card (or
USB thumb drive). I don't think
Michael has even turned that TV
on, although he may have showed it
to his wife in the care home. She
did not like it at all. Michael
has made no attempt to return the
TV, and so I have bought this
replacement.
It has some useful
differences to the previous one.
It has a high definition, wide
screen display, and can receive
the HD transmissions. In that mode
the pictures do look nice and
sharp, although there is almost
nothing broadcast that I would
want to watch in high definition.
One possible use would be to
record some stuff in high
definition to show on my high
definition PC display.
Once I had set up the TV,
and played with it a bit, I came
to realise that, like the previous
one, it was probably using pirated
software, and one feature did not
work correctly. It should have the
facility to look ahead in the
electronic programme guide to
select a programme to record using
the inbuilt timer - like you could
do on a VHS recorder. It is
possible to make some use of that
by indirect means - like looking
up the times on another TV, which
is a bit silly, but it does work.
I did record one thing last night,
but it started early, and I missed
the first 30 seconds. There were
also a few glitches on the
recording. When I have time I'll
put it through my video editor to
cut all the adverts out, and other
stuff. It is possible the editor
may correct some of the glitches
as well (but there is only a small
chance of it).
I guess I spent a lot of
the afternoon just being lazy, and
I didn't really get constructive
(for very limited uses of the word
constructive) until it was time to
start cooking my dinner. I had a
rack of ready to cook spare ribs,
and a small can of "no added
sugar" baked beans. When I first
tried those spare ribs I thought
they were wonderful, but for one
reason or another I found last
night's were not terribly
exciting. Maybe I need to stop
buying them for a year so I can
reset the novelty factor.
For a dessert I had some
fruit in the form of two juicy
oranges, and (separately) some
plain vanilla ice cream. With
hindsight, it was not a great
idea. Those big juicy oranges
would have been good for a bit of
fibre, but bad because of their
sugar content (even natural foods
have sugar in them, and it does
not matter if it is fructose
instead of glucose, the body
processes it all as sugar). The
ice cream had, and expected, a lot
of sugar in it too, and the
combined sugar seemed more than my
last Mounjaro injection could
manage.
I also think that although
it was around 7pm, that was still
late enough to keep that excess
sugar circulating in the blood all
night long - as I discovered this
morning - more of which soon.
The programme I recorded
last night, and which I watched as
it was recording, was Bill
Bailey's "Cosmic Jam" stage
performance. I had to admit I
found it a bit disappointing, but
overall still worth a look. It
finished at 11pm, and I didn't
really have time to read in bed
last night. I think I turned the
light out straight after getting
into bed. It is a very foggy
memory, but I seem to think I fell
asleep very quickly, but woke up
10 or 20 minutes later from a
dream. I have no idea what the
dream was about now.
One oddity about my sleep
was that I didn't seem to wake up
much to go for a pee - something
that should happen with high blood
glucose, and as I would find when
I got up, it was very high
! As far as I can remember, I
slept well last night, and maybe,
but only maybe, I felt quite
refreshed when I got up this
morning. One of those odd things
is that I was really looking
forward to breakfast, and that was
despite the fact I didn't seem to
feel hungry.
It was not that late when I
got up - maybe around 7am. As
usual, my first port of call was
the toilet. I had a medium size
pee, and just passed some wind. I
did have quite a few poos
yesterday, and the last was in the
early evening. I guess I had
emptied most of me before I went
to bed, and there was nothing
ready to poo this morning (but
maybe later). When I got on the
scales I found I had lost 600gm -
which was very satisfying even if
it was a bit of mystery how I had
achieved it.
Part of the mystery was how
I lost such a useful bit of weight
when my blood glucose level had
gone through the roof. I had
readings of 10.0, 9.8, and another
10.0mmol/l. The danger zone starts
at 10.0mmol/l, and quite clearly
all three meters said I was right
on the red line (or in the case of
the 9.8 so close as to be as good
as...). That was not a good start
to the day, and ideally I would
fast until maybe dinner time, but
there are problems with that.
The first problem was an
insane desire for breakfast even
if I did not feel physically
hungry. The next problem is that I
am expecting an Amazon delivery
today, and it consists of nothing
but Liquorice Allsorts and a
liquorice gift pack with other
forms of liquorice in it. I can
probably resist the Liquorice
Allsorts, but there are a few
things in the gift pack that I
really want to test.
The other problem is that
today is another Sunday beer
tasting session with Jodie. That
demands a fairly solid lunch, or
other means of lining the stomach.
I could cancel it, but that would
upset Jodie, but I may try and
cancel my own boozing, and
substitute chilled water for much
of the beer.
There is another problem,
or maybe it is just a
complication. My original plan was
to go shopping in Aldi, but that
would bring too much temptation.
It all gets more complicated when
I consider that tomorrow morning I
intend to go to the Petts Wood May
Fayre in the hope of getting some
pictures of the bands on the live
stage. Well, actually, the hope is
that there will be some band worth
taking pictures off. The only band
I know will be playing a slot
there is one that I would not go
out of my way to photograph. The
significant thing is that if I
don't get some shopping today, I
won't have time to get any
tomorrow either, but I guess I
have enough stuff in the freezer
to keep me from starving - even if
I might prefer different stuff,
1782 words
today.
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