It seemed cooler than 18° C at 7am this morning, but I will admit I didn't think to check my own thermometers. Today full sunshine is forecast, and it seems it is going to get very warm. A peak of 31° C is forecast. It looks like it will be a warm and sticky night too. Tomorrow should see full sunshine all day again, and it will raise the temperature to a scorching 35° C. After tomorrow it will cool down again. Next Monday it might even rain !

  Yesterday was another day where I was mostly resting. I had no appointments, and was not expecting any deliveries. It all meant I could put my feet up, and do nothing. Of course I did not do "nothing", and I did do at least one important "something" !

  After all the trauma of my appointment with the Gastroenterologist the day before yesterday, I felt like a less action filled day would be a good idea. I did have a few mad ideas that I considered, but I think I mostly spent yesterday morning laying on my bed reading. I had intended to at least have a shower, and possibly go out, maybe for a short walk in the park, but I couldn't seem to raise the enthusiasm for it. It probably didn't help that I had got to one of the exciting bits of the book I was reading, and was reluctant to put the book down.

  I think I can say that yesterday morning I did no more than read and also have a snooze (and maybe it might have been two - I can't remember either way). Around midday I had some lunch, but I can't remember if it was anything more than some snacks. Perhaps an infusion of energy started me thinking that maybe I ought to do something.

  I still hadn't bothered showering, and by then it didn't seem important because I think I knew I would not be going anywhere, and would not be in proximity to anyone. The major thing I did do was to clear the kitchen sink of washing up. There was a lot in the sink, and most of it was instant noodle containers - I wash them to refill from packets of instant noodles. Underneath the noodle pots was some cutlery, and baking tray and grill to sit in it. Underneath that it was horrible and slimy.

  The noodle pots were easy to clean up ready to be used again. The cutlery was easy to clean and polish. The baking tray and grill was not easy. The easiest of the two was the grill. I managed to get all the grease and stuff off that without too much trouble. The baking tray was a different matter. Had I just been baking cakes on it, or something like that, it would probably never have been allowed to get in the state it was in. I had been using it as a drip tray when grilling meat in the oven, and some of the fat and other juices have been almost burnt onto it. Ideally I could have done with a sand blaster to bring it up shiny and clean, but with enough scrubbing it is certainly very usable as a drip try when grilling more meat.

  Once I had recovered from that severe washing up I had a short rest, but then I found I wanted to have a play with the new camera I bought (the Nikon D700). Mostly I wanted to try a fe of my lenses on it. Being a full frame camera, some of my lenses will not work (they cannot project a big enough image on the sensor, and that leaves a black border around the picture). I was very sure that any lens that worked on my Nikon D610 would work because that is also a full frame camera.

  As well as checking the lenses I intended to use with that camera, I also want to have a bit of practice at using it. All the setting are more or less the same on my Nikon cameras, and so theoretically I should not have any problems. The important thing was to try stuff out before I got to a gig, and when I might have to alter stuff on the camera in the dim lighting of a pub (for instance).

  I opened the back bedroom window so I could take some snaps of the garden and anything else I could see through the open window. Distant chimneys were how I tested the zoom lenses. With hindsight I could have edited a couple of pictures to show here, but they would not be terribly exciting. However, I got to see the pictures, and I am very happy with the results. One oddity, is like the Nikon D300 camera I have, they are both only 12.3 megapixel cameras. That is considered small these days, but the images are big and detailed enough that I can do some moderate cropping of the picture, and the small remnant still looks sharp.

  Once I had finished playing cameras I laid down and started reading again. I think I had a snooze, and that helped time rush by. Very soon it was dinner time. I had a couple of ready meals in the fridge I could have microwaved, but my dinner was some Pepperami sticks, some chocolate bars, some crisps, and some cookie dough ice cream. All these things sound very unhealthy, and so I also had a ready prepared "tropical fruit selection".

  My evening was the same as almost every evening. I really should get a rubber stamp made up that says I watched the news followed by some light entertainment programmes, and then I went to bed. I can't remember when I went to bed, but I suspect it was 10-m because I managed to read another short chapter from the book I am reading before turning out the light, and going to sleep......or maybe not.

  My memory of last night is very vague, and I don't think it was because I had a couple of large "golden spiced" rum. I seem to remember that I suffered from insomnia for an hour or two, but the memory is so insubstantial that I could have been dreaming I was awake and trying to get to sleep. I was about to type that I could remember one real dream I had. I feel sure I could remember it before starting this paragraph, but it seems to have floated away like a leaf on the wind now.

  I do have some very vague, very hazy memories of getting up to pee in the night, but that is about all I remember. I can't even remember why I seem to have got up very late this morning - maybe I did have a couple of hours of insomnia last night, and I had/have a sleep deficit. I know I got up to pee at around 6am, and before I went back to bed I took screen shots of the weather forecasts.

  The good news is that despite seeming to have eaten a motley amount of food yesterday, and the fruit I ate has not opened my bowels this morning, I seem to have lost 500gm since yesterday morning. The continuing good news is that my blood glucose readings are rather good this morning. My three readings were 7.4, 7.4, and 7.6mmol/l. They are among the lowest I have had for ages. They average to 7.47mmol/l, and only one day so far this month was lower at 7.17mmol/l on the 6th August.

  The weight loss and the low blood glucose suggest that my Ozempic injections are working as intended. I still doubt they will result in weight losses of tens of kilograms, but half a kilogram here and there all helps. I almost wonder if I ate less than usual yesterday because the Ozempic was making me feel like I didn't need to eat. If so it is working far better than Mounjaro did (although I think that seemed to control my blood glucose better, but maybe Ozempic is catching up). It seems it was a good idea to try Ozempic.

  Today I have some ideas about what I might do. I must admit I feel like being very lazy again, but I reckon I need to have a shower regardless of whether I will be seeing anyone today. One thing I may do is go shopping in Aldi. There are plenty of things I could get in there, but one thing I definitely want is a bottle of Brandy. The Aldi own label Brandy seems pretty good, and I think a bottle of that would be a good thank you present for Jo (who I know does like brandy) when she acts as my chaperone to see me safely home after I have been sedated with "happy juice" for my double poking with the camera on a long rubber tube - the gastroscopy and the colonosocopy during the one appointment !