This morning has started with bright sunshine, and it should continue until midday. After that it will only be sunny spellsm but the afternoon should still reach 15° C. It will be dry all day today. Tomorrow should be similar to today, but most temperature will be about 2° C lower. That means a cold morning, but the afternoon should be pleasant enough at 13° C, although the afternoon could be a bit dull.

  Yesterday was pleasant, but not a lot happened. I did pop out to the shops, and that is about all I did of any note. The shop was Poundstretcher, and apart from some edible stuff (noodles and stuff), the most significant thing was a pair of slip on shoes.

  The pair of shoes look superficially cheap and nasty. At just £7 they were cheap, and maybe they will fall apart after a month or two, but for now they are not too bad. I wore them around the house a lot yesterday, and they do seem comfortable. I could almost say I had a special reason to buy them, although curiosity was the real reason. However, one real use could be tomorrow when I have an appointment with the nurse. It is probable she will want to do a diabetic foot check - I am due my annual one. Having a pair of slip on shoes, that seem comfortable without socks, will make it much easier to slip off my shoes.

  Apart from shopping I did nothing of any note, and so to save time I will skip through to the evening, and so to be via a bit of TV watching. I spent a bit of time laying in bed reading. Some days ago I was complaining that the book I am reading, "Speaker For The Dead" by Orson Scott Card, was getting a bit boring, but I've reached the bit where the first big mystery has been explained, and it feels like I am now reading it with more understanding, and that makes it entertaining again.

  I think I went to sleep quite late last night. It was possible that it was after midnight. It was an unexceptional sleep. I woke a few times to pee, and I had at least one dream, and I can remember some of that dream. I seemed to be in an unfamiliar part of London, and possibly on some sort of work training course. The bit I remember is wondering why we visited a pub that was a a bit of a walk away when there were a couple that were nearer.

  In the dream I decided to see what the closest pub was like. It was a small pub, and there was some similarity with The Jolly Farmers, but not that much. I went to the bar and asked what beer they had on draught. The barman pointed me to a sign at the and of the bar that showed two beers (and possibly real ales). I ordered a pint of the first one whose name now escapes me, although I feel sure it was not the name of a real beer .

  It was when I came to pay for it that things got a bit weird. I pulled my wallet out of my pocket, and went through the bank notes. I seemed to have quite a collection of bank notes, and many looked like they would not be legal tender in the pub. I seemed to have some confusion about what country I was in. One possibility was Ireland, and maybe Southern Ireland. I found a not that seemed to be a £5 note, and the barman took it without flinching. That was about all the dream I can remember.

  This morning I got up and had a nice pee, but only a big fart instead of a poo. It seemed I was 300gm lighter, and if I had had the poo I was expecting, it may have been 400 or even 500gm lighter. I don't seem to feel constipated, but I am occasionally passing more wind. I am avoiding breakfast this morning, but I reckon that if I had a nice spicy instant noodles it might make me open my bowels.

  I can't say the small weight loss was caused by eating more carefully, It is all a bit mysterious because I think I ate too much of the wrong things. However my blood glucose measurements do suggest that I must have done something right. The average of all three readings was 7.07mmol/l, and that is the lowest reading so far this month. The average for the whole of last month was a tiny bit bigger at 7.08mmol/l, but last month had some higher and lower readings.

  I don't seem to feel good or bad this morning. I am even contemplating trying to get out for a walk in the park before the morning is over. It would be useful to test those cheap new, slip on shoes outside the house. The only other things to do today are to wash my hair and have a shower - maybe after I have gone for a walk (assuming I do go for one). Later this afternoon Jodie should be over for another beer tasting session. Maybe Michael may join us later, but I am sort of hoping it is not going to be a big session because of my appointment with the nurse at 9am tomorrow morning. It is going to be hard enough to explain why I have basically not lost any weight since I started injecting the alleged wonder slimming drug Mounjaro months ago. All I have got out of it is great blood glucose control. Tomorrow I expect I will be prescribed the next stronger dosage. This is just how the drug is used - starting on a weak dose, and building it up to maximum week by week.