09:41 BST

  Yesterday was another day that started with bright sunshine, but ended up as a fairly dull day. Having said that, there were far more sunny spells than the weather forecast predicted. After a cool start, despite the morning sunshine, that afternoon reached 11° C - which was still a bit cool because while there were sunny spells, there wee few of them when most needed. From about 9pm the sky became very clear, but the temperature only dropped to 8° C by midnight.
  Once again the forecast has been too pessimistic. So far we have had a couple of brief sunny spells, and it has been bone dry. Eventually it may start to rain or drizzle. I can't see any blue in the sky, and so it looks unlikely there will be any sunshine, and yet it is not that gloomy outside. It is 11° C as I write this, and by 3pm it may be 15° C. That may feel almost warm without any sunshine. The day will end at about 11° C. There could be a single sunny spell tomorrow morning, maybe at 8am, but the rest of the day is forecast to be dull, but dry. The afternoon may reach 14° C.

   It's at this point I usually say whether yesterday was good or bad (or shades between). This morning I am unsure if it was good, bad or indifferent. I guess it was a mix of all three.

  My morning could probably be described as indifferent, although lazy might be more apt. I can remember when I finished writing, but I am sure it was late - possibly as late as midday, but maybe 11am. Whenever it was I still wanted my developed habit of have a lie down after, and a snooze.

  Once I felt I had rested enough I thought it was time I had lunch. If I recall correctly (oops, it seems I didn't !) it was a single Scotch egg and also a "deli roll" with cheese and meat in it. After another short rest I went back down to the kitchen to prepare my dinner. The first task was to clean and cut up some potatoes. I boiled them in the microwave, and once they were almost soft I added some sliced and part shredded Savoy cabbage.

  When the cabbage was cooked I mashed the whole lot with maybe a rather generous amount of butter. I then scooped it into a foil pie dish (suitably bent and massaged into a rectangle to fit in my mini oven/grill). I then grilled it until the top op the potato was just starting to brown. I had intended to grill it until it was almost turning black and crispy, but I had another idea - I added some pre-sliced cheddar cheese, and grilled that until the cheese was well melted.

  I didn't do all the cooking in one go, which maybe the way it sounds, but spread it out over the afternoon. Most of my afternoon was very lazy. I passed a lot of time just reading, and checking a few things out on the internet (which could also be described as more reading). As 6pm approached, my usual dinner time, I did the final grilling of my take on bubble and squeak (although some might say it was closer to Irish Colcannon). One thing I forgot was to add sliced fresh onion to the mix before the grilling,I added some crispy fried onions instead.

  I think I may have originally thought I might have the "bubble and squeak" with some sausages, but with the cheese on top I considered it might be a meal it it's own right. On reflection, a smaller portion with some grilled sausages might have made a nice meal, but it wasn't bad as a stand alone meal. The one thing I realised it was missing was being fried (or grilled in my case) in smoky bacon fat. I think it was that which made the bubble and squeak my dad used to make, using leftovers from the previous day's dinner (usually Sunday dinner), so tasty.

  My first experimental version was nice, but I'll admit it was a bit lacking. I followed it with some raspberry ripple ice cream, and it was from a bigger tub, possibly Tesco branded, that was far better that the Ben & Jerry's raspberry and doughnut ice cream I tried a day or two ago.

  My evening was mostly the usual watching TV - enjoying some, and some being a bit bland. It was after I had turned the TV, and started reading in bed, when the first hints of "excitement" started. I could not get commfortable because I was uncomfortable at both ends of my digestive tract. Food retained in my stomach (one of the effects of Mounjaro) was making my burp a lot. It was all the more unpleasant because the burps were cabbage flavoured !

  Meanwhile, at the other end of my digestive tract, but initially less obvious, I was having some small trouble with "wind". Well, initially is was some nasty smelling farts, but it eventually seemed like I had something like food poisoning, I ended up racing to the toilet many times as I seemed to be completely emptying my digestive tract. It seemed almost as effective as the super-laxative I had to take prior to the colonoscopy that didn't happen.

  It wasn't until 2am when I felt very confident that I was empty, and I could go to sleep safe from any unpleasant accidents in the night. Apart from the inconvenience, and the occasional dash to the toilet with my buttocks clenched, it was not that bad. I try and believe that a good purge is good for me, but I am not sure I believe it yet. The big mystery is what caused it? This morning I have no better idea than the blank I drew last night.

   This morning I seem to feel OK....at least I think I do. When I got up, rather late after my 2am late night, last night, I had a large pee (and I had had a few pees in the night), and, to my surprise, I did a little poo as well. I though I was completely empty after last night. It all helped to give the illusion I had lost 600gm since yesterday morning.

  My blood glucose was better than yesterday, but the odd thing is got three very different readings from my three blood glucose meters. The worst, although not really bad, was 8.1mmol/l from the Nexus GlucoRX meter. The middle reading was 7.6mmol/l from the GlucoFix Sensor meter. The very good reading was 6.8mmol/l from the Bayer Contour meter. That averages to 7.5mmol/l, and that is pretty good, but while less than yesterday, it is one of the higher averages for the month. It is now the end of the month, and the average of every reading this month is 7.08mmol/l. That seems very good to me, and it is slightly lower than the averages for January and February.

  The other important reading is my blood pressure. This morning it is a very average 112/51 with a pulse rate of 61. The end of month average of all readings are 116/52 and a pulse rate of 62. These are all morning readings, but the average for the afternoon readings is 117/49 with a pulse rate of 63. It is not exactly the same as the morning readings, but very similar. I have no idea what a cardiologist would say, but they look like good reading to me.

  Today I have an idea of what I might do, but probably won't. Yesterday I dragged a storage box out from the under the bed in the spare room. That box contains a pair of very small pair of jeans - a pair that I could just about wear when I did my massive diet back in 1983. It is my ultimate aim to get back in them one day, but at the moment it is not looking likely. It is still something to aim towards though.

  Also in the box was a pair of unused black jeans - jeans made in China using a very smelly, very smoky black dye. I thought it was the smell that made me not wear them, but I now think it otherwise. According to the label they are the same size as several pairs of jeans and shorts that fit me well. I can get in them, and even do them up with a mild struggle. I think it would benefit them in two ways if I started to occasionally wear them. Lots of fresh air would help the smoky smell dissipate, and it also might help stretch them a bit so they are less a struggle to do up.

  My plan, or maybe that should be probably unlikely plan, is to take those jeans for a walk. It will probably be raining, so I would have to wear a coat, although the rain may not be heavy enough to justify a full rain coat. On the basis that I might go out I am topping up the batteries for my completely waterproof (even safe to use under water if the water is shallow) Fuji camera. The best of my two waterproof cameras, the Fuji XP71, has one major failing. It eats batteries, and eats them fast if put into movie mode. I am currently topping up the three spare batteries in case I do go out, and in case I decide to shoot some video when out.
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