It is because of my very late start that the BBC weather forecast above, starts at 10am ! However it does correctly show the sunny spells we are having. They may continue until sunset. The afternoon temperature may be 17° C again. Tomorrow may start with full sunshine, and it could continue until midday. The afternoon may only see sunny spells. For all that sunshine the afternoon temperature may only reach 15° C, but in sunshine that should feel pleasantly warm.

  Yesterday was a fair day, but I really only did one positive thing. I finished all the tedious rinsing of the towels I started washing the day before. For various reasons I have started writing this extra late, and so I am going to attempt to keep this very brief.

  I didn't feel good yesterday, although there was no real physical reason for it, and not really any mental reason for it. I guess it is the weather that has to take the blame again. I had intended to go for a walk in the park yesterday. The early forecast for the day looked favourable, but then reality intruded.
  This was the view out the back bedroom window, and it is looking at the sky over the park where I had thought I would be walking. Those clouds looked far too heavy - as if rain was almost a certainty, and even a thunderstorm possible. Rather than go out it was back to laying on my bed reading and snoozing.

  I did rather a lot of reading and snoozing, although I guess it was mostly reading. If I had snoozed for as long as it sounded like I meant, I would never have got to sleep last night.....actually, I got a lot less sleep than expected. I didn't think I ate excessively during the morning, afternoon or night, but one thing suggested I might have. I'll come to that soon.

  During the evening I watched the usual selection of TV programmes, and then I did something that made me extra late to go to bed. It started with checking up on the progress of an order I made with aliexpress.com for a couple of solid state hard drives - at a price considerably cheaper than Amazon list them. I am aware of the dangers of getting counterfeit stuff when ordering from China, but I've had worse surprises from Amazon.

  Having checked, and found my order had apparently just left China by air freight (or maybe was about to) it seemed that progress was made shipping the order, and I think my two hard drives could arrive in less than a week now. At that point I should have closed my browser down, and gone to bed, but they have so much weird or wonderful stuff on offer that I think I spent an hour, and maybe almost two flicking through their web pages, and wishing I could justify buying junk out of curiosity instead of need.

  It was about midnight when I went to bed, but I think I felt some discomfort, and it took a while before I fell asleep. That discomfort was very vague, but at 3am it became far more obvious that I needed the toilet, and not just for a pee ! I don't think I mentioned it, but even in the morning I felt half constipated - I had "gone", but it felt like the job was only half done. It seems that at 3am the job was finished quite thoroughly - at least as far as the needs of yesterday were concerned.

  I had quite a lie in to make up for being awake for as much as an hour at 3am, and maybe it was longer than that. I did get up for a short while earlier, and went to the toilet. Of course, apart from a pee, I didn't expect anything more to happen after my 3am clear out, but it did ! Unfortunately, all that was not enough to reset my weight back to what it was 4 or 5 days ago. In fact this morning it seems like I have gained 300gm. I find that hard to believe, and I wonder if I have made an error filling in my spreadsheet.

  My blood glucose readings are good this morning, and even a little better than yesterday's good readings. The average of all three meters was just 7.47mmol/l. A reading starting with a six would be good, but I am fairly happy with sevens. It is still a mystery how my blood glucose can go down when my weight goes up. Blood glucose levels usually go down as the result of fasting, although the sugar content of what you eat is very significant. I did have a few things that I used to avoid because of their sugar content, but I seem to be controlling that well while I am taking my weekly injection of Mounjaro.

  Talking of which, I am due to see the nurse for my next Mounjaro pen prescription on Monday. I think I can show that it is all worth it for the safer blood glucose readings, but it is certainly not a wonder weightloss drug for my metabolism. in one respect it could almost work. One effect is that it holds food in the stomach for longer, and so it is supposed to make you feel less hungry. All it does with me is to make me feel bloated and almost like I could vomit - and that would be good if it was when I should be hungry, but it does nothing except cause discomfort late in the evening when I wouldn't be eating anyway.

  This morning my plan was to walk through the park to The Jolly Farmers for a pint of Guinness or two, and to say hello to my favourite barmaid. It is now too late for that, and that might be good because I have two other plans that I might do. One is fairly likely now - a quick visit to the shops, mostly Poundstretcher. The other plan that I don't feel like at the moment, but maybe I will later. It is to go out to another gig tonight. Ransom, a hard rock band (sort of) are playing in The Swan, in West Wickham, the pub I went to last week to see The Life Of Brian (and Angela).  Last Saturday it was great to take some fairly decent pictures (plus, of course, to listen to the band), and tonight would be another good photo opportunity. The only trouble is my enthusiasm is already waning. I guess I'll try and be ready to go out if it feels good at the time.