It has been nice and sunny this morning, but later in the afternoon the last bit of sunshine may finally be hidden by clouds. Today should reach 21° C again, but not until 2pm (which an hour earlier than the screen shot above, taken early this morning, says). There may be a couple of sunny spells late this afternoon/early evening, but apart from that it will be cloudy. That cloud may help the temperature stay a degree or two higher overnight. Tomorrow will be a dull day, but there is very little chance of rain. Tomorrow afternoon may only reach 20° C.

  Yesterday was a good and bad day. The good involved beer, but that was also bad. A water leak was either a disaster if I haven't correctly diagnosed the cause, and cured it.

  I had left a couple of towels soaking in detergent and stain remover, in one of my big builders buckets overnight. It was relatively easy to wring them out, and put them in another big bucket that I put aside for later. By doing that I managed to find time to wash my hair, and have a shower.  I didn't find time, or maybe I didn't seem to find the inclination to do all the washing up in the sink, and as much tidying up as I try to do before a beer tasting session.

  One thing I wanted to do was to go for a joyride on a train. As I wrote yesterday, trains from Catford Bridge to Hayes (Kent) were being diverted to Beckenham Junction. It is fairly rare for stopping trains to be diverted there (although some "fast" train from the Kent coast use it as an alternative route now and then). I still think of it as a bit rare, and I would have liked to gone to Beckenham Junction and back - because I could (but didn't).

  Jodie took advantage of a train from Beckenham Junction to come here for the beer tasting session. There was only a rail replacement bus on Sunday, when the beer tasting normally happens, and so we switched Sunday to Monday (August bank holiday Monday). Not only Jodie, but we were joined by Michael and Alan. It made for a more exciting beer tasting session.

  I think I had some instant noodles and maybe some crisps of something for lunch, and prior to drinking. I didn't end up drinking all that much, but one beer was an aged stout - all thick and syrupy. That beer was really delicious, but very strong, and very bad for anyone watching either their weight and/or their blood glucose.

  I think it was after the beer session ended, while I was dishing up my dinner of )alleged) Korean spiced pork belly strips with some "steak cut" chips that could have done with another 10 minutes in the oven, that I noticed something I did not like. There was a big blister on the kitchen ceiling. I have seen a similar one before, many years ago. Maybe even 20 years ago or more.

  I knew exactly what it was, and roughly what caused it, but not the exact reason. It was caused by some sort of water leak, and the blister, had I popped it, would have been full of water. The last time it happened was when my wonky rubber shower head connection was spraying water behind the hot tap, and it was dripping down under the bath. I am pretty sure it is the same thing again, but I didn't get to see it in action.

  I was evidently still sober enough to find a tube of bathroom sealant and re-seal where the bath meets the wall, and also around the tap in case it was getting through the tap fixing. I also ran a few beads of silicone sealant to channel any water back into the bath. It is all dry this morning, but I have yet to test it. I am hoping that the blister will shrink as it dries out - except I know it probably won't - not only that but it could take months to dry out under the bath.

  I spent a few hours or more watching some TV, and then reading last night. I don't think it was all that late when I went to sleep. It may even have been before 11pm. I am not sure that I slept that well last night. I remember waking up at just gone 3am. If I had had my wits about me, and had focussed my eyes quicker, I think I would have seen my clock read 03:33:33 !

  I had one dream last night that has left a few fragments of memory. I seemed to be living in what seemed like might have been a derelict house, and yet it was also like the family house in the late 1960s. The circumstances are very vague, but I walked into an empty room that had another door that opened onto the hall with the stairs and front door off it. I found my younger sister worried that someone might get in the front door because it could not be locked for some unknown reason.

  My sister had laid down a collection of pots and pans in front of the door that lead to the hall. No one could open that door and get in with making a huge racket. I said "sure that was not needed because out eldest brother was sleeping in the room at the top of the stairs, and could easily come to the rescue. What was never explained was why it seemed in the middle of the day downstairs, but was apparently night upstairs where he was sleeping. I guess that is the magic of dreams.

  Yesterday I remarked that when I got up I was disappointed that the fruit I had eaten to keep my bowels open didn't seem to have worked. Maybe it was just late, and it most certainly worked this morning. There was no urgency, no mad dash, but I went to the toilet three times this morning, and did so very productively !

  It is unfortunate that I did not weight myself after those three visits, and also after I had gone for a morning walk. As it stands, I have recorded a 700gm weight gain - which is not good. I will have to wait until tomorrow to see if there was any loss I didn't see, and hope it carries through to tomorrow morning.

  It was probably thanks to the chips, the beer, and maybe the (alleged) Korean marinade on my pork belly slices last night, that my blood glucose is nothing to boast about. Then again, it is nothing to worry about. The average this morning was 8.17mmol/l. Lower would be better, but it is still in the more-or-less OK sort of region. My blood pressure is quite good this morning. It was 111/64 with a pulse rate of 76bpm.

  I had one great plan for today, and I have done that already, although not in quite the way I wanted. Until I have have tested my water leak repairs I did not want to risk having a shower because it is hard to monitor what is happening while covered with soap. I have relied on my shower yesterday, with a squirt of deodorant to make me smell fresh enough to go out.

  I have finally been to the pharmacy to collect my repeat prescription - the one I ordered last Wednesday, and was told it would be ready for collection last Friday around lunchtime. Today I had still not been made up, and I had to wait for it to be made up. In the rush they forgot the GlucoTech diabetes test strips. Fortunately I checked everything as soon as I had left the pharmacy, and could go back in when I realised they had forgotten the test strips.

  After the pharmacy I took a wander down the high street to Poundland. There was one thing in particular I wanted from there - a couple of packs of their long life white bread mini-sub/batton rolls. Those, plus some cheese and butter (which I already have) will be 50% of my main eating when I am on my 4 day low fibre diet prior to my colonoscopy. The other bit of the diet will be plain vanilla ice cream. Day one of the special diet is this coming Saturday.

  Of course I found other stuff to buy, and came home with a big bag of stuff - including shower gels and some laundry stuff. One thing I bought was a tub of Maggi "Mi Goreng *" flavour instant noodles. I had them for my breakfast. They smelled wonderful, but tasted annoying bland. Maybe all the flavour evaporated in the steam.

 * As far as I can guess, Mi Goreng flavour seemed to be fried egg and fried onion flavour. When nice and strong it is delicious, but this version in a big tub made by Maggi disappointed me today.

  Once I have had my usual post writing lie down, usually including some reading and a snooze, I need to finish the two hand towels I am about half finished washing so I can not only test my waterproofing of the potential places where water is getting under the bath, but be ready wash my hair and have a shower. I may wash my hair this evening to save time in the morning when I have to have a shower before going out to see the diabetes nurse to get my next Ozempic injector prescribed.