I am allowed cheese (and quite a few other things if I could be prepared to prepare and cook them), and in the picture you can see a thick slab of cheese in the single bread roll. That was my breakfast today. Such a diet lacks many things, such as vitamins and minerals, plus of course any fibre, and so I would not want to survive on it for more than a week or so. On the other hand, much to my surprise, it does seem to be a low calorie meal, and I am losing some useful amounts of weight. More about that further down the page.

  Much of yesterday could be described as quiet. I did have a shower because I was thinking of going out for a walk (but didn't) and I was also expecting Jodie for a beer tastings session. Once I was washed I did very little, but not nothing. For instance I did wash and polish the beer glasses. I also had some lunch - of more bread and water !

  Another thing I was doing was waiting for Amazon to deliver a package containing my new 5G phone. The phone was finally delivered at 7.41pm - ridiculously late in the day, but then if the van driver can't start his deliveries until midday, I suppose it is only to be expected. If it were me I would be out of the depot at the crack of dawn so I could finish and be home to watch the 6pm news on The BBC.

  I had been expecting my package the day before yesterday, and some vague clues suggested there had been a cock up. It definitely seems that my package was recorded as arriving at the final delivery station twice. It seems to me that a company founded on the idea of delivering stuff ordered online, would have the delivery service honed to a fine art after all these years, but they come across as complete amateurs to my mind.

  I spent my morning, and most of the afternoon doing the usual reading and snoozing - but not too much snoozing in case I missed the delivery driver ringing my doorbell. It got to about 4.30pm and I had had no word from Jodie. I have no confirmed it, but I have a nagging feeling she might have forewarned me that she was busy yesterday.

  Not drinking was probably actually a good idea while on my low fibre diet. My resolve to stick to it as directed in my instruction from the hospital Enterology department could easily have wandered under the effect of some booze - particularly with the strong desire to feast after only very modestly drunk.

  It was almost 8pm (actually 7.41pm) when my new phone arrived. That occupied me for much of the rest of the evening, although I did watch some TV at the same time. My new phone is a Poco M8 5G. It is a Chinese brand, or maybe a subbrand of the Chinese firm Xiomi. I chose it because it was a 5G phone, and it had a very reasonable specification. Also it seemed to use the Android operating system, and so had access to the Google "Play Store".

  Setting the new phone up is always a long and tedious process. One good thing is that Google knew which apps I had on my other phones, and did an auto install of them - except for one. My favourite app for recording my walks seems to be no longer available. It should have been possible to copy it from either of my other two phones that have it installed, but the new phone lacks a compatible "phone clone" app. I can probably find a similar app, but for now I will do what I have been doing for the last year or so. That is using the app on my Honor 200 phone. If it were not that I am not keen on how that phone is operated - all swipes instead of buttons - I would not have needed the new phone.

  On the whole I am pleased with the new phone. Everything seems to work as expect. It's battery should have a far longer life (in terms of daily usage, as well as years before it fails) than the failing one in my Huawei phone. One negative thing is that I was hoping bluetooth transfers to my PC would be a lot faster. My Honor phone transfers pictures at last twice as fast.

  One thing I am very unhappy with is not the phone's fault. One of the reasons for the new phone is that the National Rail app would no longer work on the Huawei phone because it needed an updated Android version. The new phone has shown me why. Some fresh faced kid straight out of school decided the National  Rail app should do more than one single thing that that it did excellently. It now wants to plan journeys, and to sell tickets. I suspect the need for the higher numbered Android was because it needed to be able to handle credit and debit cards. The whole app, which did one thing so well is now a mess, and I am not just unhappy about it, but livid !

  I wound down playing with the phone, and watched a bit more TV before heading to bed around 10pm. I felt too tired by then to read, and it was not long before I had turned the light out, and was fast asleep. My sleep was uneventful. I presume I would have got up for a pee at least once, but I don't remember doing so. I think I had a dream, but not a single memory of it remains now.

  One thing about this morning was almost expected - my low fibre diet means I had become mildly constipated, and nothing was doing when I went to the toilet after getting up, but I did do a big pee. When I weighed myself I found I had lost 800gm since yesterday morning (which also saw a very useful drop in weight). I must admit I had never thought of what I am eating now - basically cheese sandwiches and vanilla ice cream - was the sort of diet to lose weight, but it seems to be happening.

  My blood glucose was good this morning, and good includes not too low. The average of all three readings was 7.7mmol/l. A little lower would be nicer, but it is most pleasing as it is.

  It was while counting out my assorted pills/drugs for the day that I got my first hints that maybe I might not be as constipated as I thought. A little while later I was no loner constipated. It was quite a big stool, but easy to pass, although it took some concentration to get it initially moving. It might have been just enough to bump my weight loss up from 800gm to 900gm, but I did not bother to check.

  This morning my blood pressure is quite low - maybe a little too low. It was 96/52 this morning, but my pulse rate was around the sort of figure I think it ought to be, 51 bpm while at rest.

  I have no definite plans for today.  Maybe I am thinking I will enjoy it any way I can - because tomorrow is the last day before my Colonoscopy and Gastroscopy appointment. Tomorrow at 7pm I take my first dose of the super powerful laxative, Plenvu. The next, and final dose, will be at 6am on Wednesday, and very soon after that my entire digestive tract will be empty. It also means that tomorrow my last meal before the "procedures" will be at 1pm. I then have to fast until approximately 4pm on Wednesday (assuming I am seen on time, and their one hour estimate is correct). Maybe I might go for a stroll in the park, or maybe I won't.