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Saturday 2nd May 2026 |
08:14 BST
Yesterday was an even
more brilliantly sunny day, and the
afternoon temperature rose to 23° C.
There was some breeze yesterday but it
was from the south, and didn't feel
cold. From 5pm there were some clouds,
and the full sunshine turned into
sunny spells. Once again the
temperature was still 13° C at
midnight.
The sky seems clear enough, as I
write this, that the current sunny
spell seems to be a very long
spell, and could be mistaken for
full sunshine. Admittedly, there
does seem to be a lot of white
cloud on the northern horizon.
Maybe by 11am we will officially
see full sunshine for 2 hours. By
2pm the temperature should have
risen to 21° C, but from 3pm we
may see light rain for the rest of
the day (except 7pm which may see
heavy rain). Some days ago the BBC
were predicting thunderstorms
today, but no longer. Ooops, just
refreshed the forecast, and the
BBC now say thunderstorms at 6pm.
The BBC do love to predict
thunderstorms that very rarely
seem to happen. After some early
morning drizzle, tomorrow morning
may be mostly dry, but rain my
return at 2pm. It should only be
light rain, but it may last for
the rest of the day. Tomorrow may
only see a high of 18° C, but even
that is not too bad.
My preoccupation for a lot
of yesterday was waiting for my
parcel delivery from Aliexpress,
being delivered by Evri. It was a
mild annoyance (until it arrived)
on a day that was not terribly
dynamic, but did have a few good
points, and one, almost expected,
bad thing.
I had intended to have a
shower yesterday morning, but I
decided I was unlikely to be near
the public (or friends etc) and so
could not be bothered. Actually,
part of the reason was that I was
keen to start some laundry - hand
washing two hand towels. I put
them in bio detergent to soak, but
only for about 10 minutes (instead
of overnight as happens on
occasions). I was sort of keen to
get the job done, although there
was no special reason for it
except until it was done I could
not have a shower.
I was so keen that after
that 10 minutes (or something like
that) of soaking, I started on the
rest of the washing process. That
started with lots of rubbing,
massaging, squishing and similar
to work the detergent into the
fabric to wash the smells and
stuff out. I then got as far as
doing about 5 rinses (possibly 5
out of 12 at the end), before not
exactly giving up, but taking a
breather that never ended.
My concentration was broken
by two things. One was lunch. I
had one, slightly stale, deli roll
with corned beef and horseradish
sauce. That roll was probably
better described as getting dry
and chewy rather than stale. I
should have toasted it, and it
would have been a lot nicer than
it was, although apart from the
chewiness it was still fairly
nice. It may have been after that
roll that I started on a bag of
Liquorice Allsorts.
I must admit I got rather
carried away with those Liquorice
Allsorts. By the end of the
afternoon I had munched through
the whole bag. I almost did it
unconsciously. The trouble with
that stupidity (and there is worse
to come) is that they calories and
sugar content of them is a bit
high, and then there is the
potential laxative effect of
Liquorice. I still have not
actually checked if my idea,
possibly handed down from mum or
dad, about the effect is real, but
during the night I did get a
strong hint that it is true.
At 1pm I got the great
distraction of my parcel being
delivered, and now things to
fondle.....well, not actually
fondle, but you know..... This
delivery contained quite an
assortment of stuff - from
electronic stuff, to clothing. On
the clothing front, although not
exactly clothing, were 6 pairs of
flip flops - and all much cheaper
than Amazon, and cheaper than
Poundland (who charged £5 for the
pair I bought there a month or two
ago). I am currently testing one
pair, and they seem quite
comfortable. The others are to the
same basic design, just different
colours, and so should be just as
comfortable. I should have enough
flip flops to last me the next 5
or more years now.
Also in the clothing
department were some leather
trouser belts. Once again they
seem quite cheap, but identical to
belts sold in Tesco (for example).
The belts lead to a further
diversion - digging out my shorts
collection. It must have been 4 to
6 weeks ago I tested them all to
see if any still fitted me, or
maybe fitted me again. To take a
single example, I have a pair of
camouflage patterned shorts that I
think I last wore in 2010 when I
did a very long walk from Epping
to Ongar. It was about 10 miles.
Maybe a year or two later I could
not fit into those same shorts -
even with the use of tyre levers.
They now seem to fit perfectly
again, and with the added safety
of one of the new belts, I may
well start to wear them again if i
am doing any country walks - which
I hope to do this summer.
All my other shorts,
some of which seemed almost too
small when I first bought them,
now seem to fit well. It is odd
that while my weight doesn't seem
to have changed that much, it
seems my shape has changed enough
to make many clothes a far better
fit since injecting Mounjaro. It
definitely keeps good control of
my blood glucose (particularly if
I try to avoid too much sugary
food). It sometimes seems to make
me gain weight, but it definitely
seems to change my size in a
positive way (i.e. I seems to be
smaller in at least a few
dimensions).
The electronic part of my
delivery was a couple of external
hard disk carriers. One good use
of them is to use old 2.5 inch (in
this case) hard disks to use as
external, USB connected, back up
disks, or for just carrying data
around faster then an internet
connection can do (although I
really only used that facility
when I was at work). I tested one,
and it worked perfectly.
There was one item I
thought had not been sent until I
fished out the wrapping from the
waste bin, and found a mini video
camera tucked in one corner. I
knew I was taking a big chance on
buying it, but at a cost of just
£2.96 it was worth the risk. The
device is completely useless
unless you create an account on a
Chinese cloud server, so that the
video is sent there before being
bounced back to me again. I did
suspect that might be the case. I
don't think I'll bother signing up
for an alleged free account just
for a toy. It may be possible to
use the thing on a local
connection - I will do some
further research.
As mentioned a bit up the
page, I got carried away eating a
bag of Liquorice Allsorts. it was
just a couple here, and a couple
there until I realised I had eaten
the whole bag without realising
it. That was madness, but what I
did next was even worse madness. I
signed into Amazon and ended up
buying rather a lot of Liquorice
Allsorts. I bought two 600gm jars,
plus a gift set of all sorts of
liquorice products. They are
predicted to be delivered on
Monday, but do Amazon deliver on a
Monday ? And will I be in ?
After that bit of madness I
didn't really do anything special,
and that includes not doing any
more rinses of the two hand towels
I was hand washing. I will have to
finish that today. The next thing
of note was preparing my dinner.
It was going to be a very simple,
and sort of healthy, dinner of
roasted Mediterranean "style"
vegetables made slightly less
healthy by a pile of melted grated
Cheddar on them. It was quite
nice, but maybe the cheese didn't
ruin the healthy effect enough,
and I had a dessert of some ice
cream.
From 6pm I ate my dinner
and watched the BBC 6 O'clock
news. The news was followed by a
very limited set of TV programmes
until bed time. I think it may
have been as late as 11pm when I
went to bed. It was too late to
read more than a page or two from
the book, I am reading, before I
tried for sleep. I can remember
some mild discomfort from the gut
area, but not enough to stop me
falling asleep.
At about 2am I was awake
again wondering if it was such a
clever idea to eat all that
liquorice, with possible laxative
qualities, and to eat a big pile
of fibre containing vegetable. It
started off with an internal
rumbling, and then the passing of
some wind. I sat on the toilet
feeling quite uncomfortable, but
after a while my bowels opened up
like the gates of hell (or maybe
something less dramatic).
I should have felt much
more comfortable after that, but
there were "after shocks". Twice,
or was it three times, I went back
to bed, and as soon as I laid down
there were more ominous rumbles
from my guts. Then I would feel
some pressure. I did not know what
of the three states of matter,
solid,liquid, or gaseous was
trying to escape. It was safe to
run back to the toilet, and I must
have done that 3 or 4 times. I
think I experienced all three
states of matter, and I am glad I
did not trust it to be just a
fart, and let it go while in bed.
That would have required new
sheets !
A thought did occur to me,
actually several. Had I eaten a
meal containing lots of extremely
hit chillies, I might have
produced the fourth state of
matter - plasma, as generated in
the sun, and fusion reactors.
Another though was that it seemed
like I had adequately proved the
laxative effects of Liquorice, as
well as heaps of fibre containing
vegetables. In an ideal world it
would be a lesson I would have
learned well, but in reality, only
learned until next time.
I did finally get to feel
comfortable enough in bed that I
could let myself get back to
sleep. After a time I had a dream,
and the subject of that dream
was pooing - at least I
think it was. It all seems very
vague now. I think it was possibly
set in a tent, or at least there
was the idea that I would have to
go outdoors if I needed the
toilet. That all sounded very
normal, but there was a weird
thing about it. When I was going
out to use the toilet (or maybe a
hole in the ground) I had to take
a think that was about the same
size as a tablet computer with me.
I remember it being just a tiny
bit too big to fit in a generous
sized inside jacket pocket.
Somehow it seemed to be what I
would pee and poo into. The only
way that could work was if it used
Star Trek "Transporter" technology
so the waste would be sucked up
and deposited in outer space (or
something).
When I got up this morning,
fairly early considering I lost a
couple of hours of sleep in the
night, I weighed myself. I assumed
that after all the poo I had
passed in the night, I would weigh
less, and that I would not need a
poo this morning. All I can say is
that I must have eaten far more
than I can remember yesterday.
This morning I seemed to have
gained 900gm. Also, I have had two
more, smaller than usual, poos
this morning, and I am not
convinced I am empty yet.
My blood glucose was good
this morning, and maybe could be
described as very good considering
all the Liquorice Allsorts I ate
yesterday. My three meters read
7.8. 7.8.and 7.9mmol/l. It is
unusual to get three readings all
so close together, and all in the
sevens - a very satisfactory
number. The average of all three
was 7.83mmol/l, and very close to
the average for the whole month of
April. My blood pressure is pretty
good this morning at 122/60.
I have to admit my bottom
and guts feel sort of sore at the
moment, and that does not make me
want to go out today, or at least
not yet. Before going out I have
to finish washing (actually it is
now at the rinsing stage) the two
hand towels I started yesterday. A
better reason for not going out
just yet is that I may be
expecting the delivery of the
final bit of my last Aliexpress
order. I am assuming that Evri
deliver on a Saturday, but their
web site does not seem to be very
helpful in that respect. I was
also trying to find out if it
isn't delivered today or Sunday,
then what about Monday - a bank
holiday - and found no answers at
all.
Amazon say my Liquorice
overload may be delivered on
Monday, and so I assume they will
be doing deliveries on the bank
holiday Monday (May Day
holiday). I think things
have become badly mis-timed. On
Monday I intend to go to the Petts
Wood May Fayre - but only to the
live music stage. I can happily
ignore all the singing and dancin'
and all the other stuff, but an
outdoor stage is always a great
place for photography.......but is
it ? The usual place for the
stage is, or was, the car park of
The Daylight Inn pub. The stage
there was nicely placed to catch
the afternoon sun. This year the
stage is placed at the end of of
the road (that ends because of the
railway line) and the bright sun
will be behind the stage. The last
time there was a stage there my
camera caught some dreadful glare
from the bright sun. Of course on
Monday it may be dull and raining,
and there will be no sun to worry
about.
2444 words
today.
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