It is still 9° C now, but very soon it should be 10° C, and thet is as high as it will get today. By 5pm it will fall to 9° C, and by 10pm it will be down to 8° C. The whole day will be grey, but the chance of rain would seem to be 0% all day long if the forecast is correct. There could be a light shower at 5am tomorrow, and it may continue until 6am, but no other rain is shown for tomorrow's forecast. Like today it will be a very grey day, but in the early hours of the next day morning there could be mist.

  Yesterday was a mostly depressing day. It was a combination of the dull weather, and thinking that tomorrow (today) I would be starting my 4 day low fibre diet that will culminate in the Endoscopy team attempting a colonoscopy on me.

  It should have been a positive thing that I could still eat anything I fancied yesterday, but I had been running down my supplies of very nice food, and I did not have a lot I could feast on. I did have some toffee flavour ice cream, and although it was a bigger portion that I would otherwise have eaten, I finished the tub. Maybe I was thinking that it would save temptation later, or maybe I just felt greedy.

  Probably the main diversion yesterday was the beer tasting session with Jodie, and although he said he couldn't make it, and was more definite about it this time, we were still joined by Michael. For a short period we were joined by Mark. The beers were a mix of good and bad, but that bad were not that bad. All were brewed in Ukraine, and as well as the novelty of it all (although we have had Ukraine beers before) I presume we would be helping the Ukraine war economy.

  Maybe I got drunk yesterday, although I didn't feel far short of stone cold sober. Maybe the giveaway was that after Jodie, Mark, and Michael had left I thought it was too late to watch Star Trek: The New Generation on TV, and I ended up watching a repeat (probably multiple repeat) of an episode or two of The Simpsons. It was after watching the first episode that I realised it had actually been early enough to see all but the first few minutes of Star Trek: The New Generation. Oh well, The Simpsons was equally good entertainment.

  I ate my dinner while watching TV. It was a bit of a strange dinner. The main course was a cold cheese flan, aka quiche. That was followed by a big bag of Quavers (or something like a 50gm bag - quavers are light as a feather, and also very low in calories and sugar). I think I followed that with the last of the toffee flavour ice cream.

  At about 10pm I took my book to bed, but I felt tired enough that I only read a page of two before turning out the light, and falling asleep very quickly (or so I think I remember). I had to get up a few times in the night to pee. Other that that, it seemed I slept really well, but this morning suggested otherwise. I woke up at about my usual time, but felt like another 5 minutes in bed. I think I had two extra hours in bed, most of which was sleeping, before I got up. The grey day didn't give me a solitary atom's worth of get up and go, and thoughts of what was coming on Monday (the attempt to give me a Colonoscopy if my blood pressure does not go through the roof again) probably didn't help.

  It is sort of ironic that on Saturday afternoon I will start taking the PlenVu bowel cleanser that will completely empty me out, and yet this morning I am half constipated. It is not exactly constipation, but a feeling of being bunged up. I did go a bit, and after I weighed myself I found I had lost 100gm. That is probably not bad considering I didn't really give a thought to what I was eating yesterday, plus there was the beer on top of it all.

  My blood glucose was not too bad. It was a little bit higher, but the average of all three meters was 8.83mmol/l. I little under 8 would have been better, but 8.83 is not too bad. I was actually let down by one meter that decided to read a lot higher than the other two. I probably should have used a new test strip, and taken a fresh reading with that meter, but it did not seem important enough. Besides which, my low fibre diet for the next 4 days will probably lead to lower readings.

  My blood pressure seems a bit variable this morning. Maybe it is the build up to dangerous pressures on Monday at the Endoscopy unit of the hospital. I tried two times for a better set of readings. On my first attempt the Systolic pressure was 134. That is acceptable, but I thought I would try again. On the second attempt the systolic pressure was down to 116, but the Diastolic pressure had gone up to 79. I think that was still OK, but my heart rate went up from something like 83 to 93. Even that is not awful - between 60 and 100 is considered fine for a 71 year old, but usually it tends to be around the middle, or 80bpm.

  Nothing much is expected to happen today. Mostly I will be drinking water, instead of Diet Coke. I am not sure if I should be drinking Diet Coke, although it does come under the description of "clear liquids", and if black tea or coffee is allowed, I should be OK. I will still reduce my Diet Coke consumption in favour of plain chilled water today. I may well spend most of the day laying on my bed reading and snoozing. On the other hand, I have an insane idea rattling around in the back of my brain that I may go for a walk today. Of course it will never happen....at least I don't think it will.......