Today has started with bright sunshine, and the forecast says today will be almost the same as yesterday - full sunshine from 8am until sunset. The afternoon should see 18° C again, and a lighter breeze should make today feel warmer than yesterday (when outside). It looks like it could be a cool night. Tomorrow could start as low as 5° C. There may only be sunny spells until early evening when there could be an hour or two of full sunshine. The temperature may peak in the late afternoon tomorrow, and from 3pm the temperature may reach 19° C.

  There does not seem to be much to say about yesterday. The main thing was the late afternoon beer tasting session, but before that I think I may have been in a lazy mood. The only thing I can remember doing, at least of any note, was clearing a small backlog of washing up before my guests (Jodie and Michael) arrived. That did include washing and polishing the beer glasses.

  I part skipped breakfast, having just a small packet of beef jerky instead of a packet (or sometimes two) of instant noodles. That seemed to work OK, and I might almost have skipped lunch, or at least had a very small lunch, but with the beer drinking in the late afternoon, I felt it wise to have at least a corned beef and horseradish roll. I am sure I had something else, but I can't think what it was.

  The beer drinking session was fairly good. Michael provided some entertainment when Jodie went silent on me as she "doom scrolled" through her social media stuff (Instagram and Untappd - the latter being where she logs all her beer drinking). A little later we were joined by Mark who had one zero % lager before driving Jodie to some bar that had a "tap takeover" by one of her favoured brewers. Jodie, Mark and Michael all left at about 7pm.

  That was late enough to miss the 6 O'clock News, but early enough to watch Star Trek - The Next Generation while eating my dinner. Dinner was an Aldi "Protein" ready meal - a ready meal with less sugar, but more gravel (or something like that). It was Peri Peri flavour chicken with rice, and a chunk of sweetcorn still on the stalk. It was fairly nice, but I don't think I care to buy a second one.

  If the main meal was relatively safe, my dessert was not. it was half a 500ml tub of Sicilian Lemon and Pistachio ice cream. It is very nice, but not exactly the healthiest option, and with only half the tub left I could not resist eating the whole half of the tub (otherwise there might have been a slim chance I might have reduced my portion to a third of the tub). Later on I did have two small packs of cheese and Marmite flavoured corn puffs. They are relatively safe compared to crisps.

  Late last night is a bit of a blur, and I am sure it was nothing to do with the beer I had drunk because I doubt it added up to much more than two pints. I think it was tiredness. I do remember watching TV and finding my eyes were closing. I ended up in bed modestly early, maybe 9.30pm, but it might have been later. I think I tried to read for a bit, but quickly gave up and fell fast asleep.

  I know I woke up at least a couple of times to pee in the night, but that is about all I can remember. I seem to have a very hazy hint of a memory of a dream, but nothing about it has survived into my memory. I do know that initially I woke up earlier than I wanted to. I checked my weight, was not impressed, and went back to bed. It seems like i did little more than blink, but another hour, maybe 90 minutes, passed in that time.

  On my second go at getting up I went to the toilet again, and this time it was a pee and a small poo. The scales now said I had lost 200gm since yesterday, but my weigh remains far too high. I have a cunning plan that might help. My blood glucose was better than yesterday's rather high readings. Yesterday's average of all three readings was 9.03mmol/l, and that is a fair bit higher than I like. It is teetering on the edge of the danger zone. This morning the average is down to an acceptable 8.2mmol/l. Acceptable, but not desirable.

  I have  cunning plan for my blood glucose. My last does of Mounjaro was only about half a dose. That would give me less glucose control, and it may be a reason for my recent weight gain (although the start of that was a couple of weeks ago). This morning I decided to do an out-of-sequence full injection from my new Mounjaro pen. Hopefully that will tame my blood glucose, and it may help some weight loss (although the "wonder slimming drug" seems to have had no, or even a mildly negative effect on any weight loss).

  My "cunning plan" to possibly promote some weight loss is to skip breakfast, and have my usual instant noodles for lunch instead. Provided I don't get carried away when having dinner in the evening, and I try and reduce any snacking, I may slowly get back on track. I will really only be missing one meal, breakfast, but experience suggests I can do that without too much bother - although I must admit I can't stop thinking about food as I write this. A sugar free Polo mint does not seem to be a substitute.

  I thought I had two plans for today. One was to go to a Chain gig in The Coach And Horses pub in Beckenham. It is an easy bus ride, but the pub is tiny. In the past I have still managed to take some good pictures in there, but it does depend on being a bit ruthless to get a good position for photography. I don't like doing that, but some times it has to be done. The only thing is that I just realised it is tomorrow, and not today.

  My remaining plan for today is to go to the pharmacy to (hopefully) collect my latest repeat prescription. I think I will also go for a walk in the park, but which park, and whether it will be a short walk, or an attempted long walk, is something I will probably only decide when I have started the walk.