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  Yesterday was quite nice. The afternoon temperature was  16° C, and the rest of the day was 15° C. There were sunny spells for all daylight hours, but sometimes the sunny periods were a bit short compared to the grey periods.
  This morning is supposed to feature light rain, but at the moment it is dry, but a bit dull. The sky is a light grey colour, but it doesn't really look like the sort of sky that rains. This morning seems to have started at close to 16° C than the forecast 14° C. Maybe this afternoon may see 18° C if we are very lucky, but maybe it will be just a drizzly 16° C as the forecast shows. From mid afternoon it may just be grey but dry for the rest of the day. Tomorrow mqay start at 13° C and some light rain. It is looking like tomorrow may not be that nice - most hours are shown as either light rain or drizzle, and the temperature may only reach 15° C.

  Yesterday was mostly a good day, and of course the weather did help make it that way. I had a nice walk, and it was, as hoped, quite comfortable wearing shorts. I did not really expect to wear shorts in October, let along November. This month should be the season of frosts and fogs, but it is looking like it might be quite benign.

  Despite another late start, possibly because my brain has not switched to GMT yet, I seemed to be in no rush to get to the pub for my usual Wednesday lunchtime Guinness. I had time to have a short rest after I finished writing, and then I had a shower. I had washed my hair the previous day, and that saved a bit of time. After drying myself I got dressed to go to the pub. It seemed like, and was mild enough to wear a t-shirt shorts and no coat.

  Despite saying I had plenty of time, and didn't need to rush, it was 12:53 when I started walking, and I did arrive at the pub a little later than usual.  I walked via the hospital where I could pick up a couple of copies of The Metro. My records show that 0.714 miles is about the average distance by that route. I was hoping to say that 2.195mph was a good time for that walk. In one respect it was good, and that one respect was that I did the walk without using any TNG spray.

  I will admit I was very close to getting angina pains when I got to the pub, and I could not have gone much further without significant pain and discomfort. I was quite pleased I had managed that far with no medication. It can't be that my heart valve is recovering, and so it must have just been the weather or something.

  It wasn't one of the best times in the pub, but it is always a bit variable depending on who is in the pub, but I still enjoyed myself. One potentially useful thing is that Ayse (may favourite bar maid) suggested a good plummer. He is an old boy who apparently knows his stuff, and has done good work repairing a few problems at Ayse's flat, and other people she knows.

  I gave Ayse my phone number, and she said she would send the plumbers number to me. As of this morning I have heard nothing, but I can imagine Ayse suddenly seeing my number on her phone and remembering what it was all about sooner or later. I hope she doesn't completely forget because I bought her a double Brandy as an advance thank you.

  I had my usual two pints of Guinness, and followed that by a double Jameson's whiskey before I left. Maybe I was a little bit drunk, or maybe I was just distracted by something, but I forgot to use my phone as intended.


  It was my intention to get the train back to Catford Bridge Station so I could pop into the little supermarket on Catford Bridge and buy some things. I thought it would be interesting to measure the distance from pub to station, and then from the station to home. For some stupid reason I forgot to stop the tracker when I got to Ladywell station.

  I just remembered what the stupid reason was, and it was not that stupid. My shear chance I got to Ladywell station just as a train started entering the station. I did my best to walk as fast as I could so I didn't end up getting on the back of the train (the exit at Catford Bridge is near the front of the train). It was all the excitement of getting as far down the platform as I could before getting on the train that made me forget to turn the tracker off.

  I didn't bother to sit down for just one stop, and stayed by the train door. My phone seemed to keep receiving GPS date, and that gave a nice keen plot on my tracking app. Superficially it looks like the railway line is straight, but as can be seen by eye, there is a gentle curve all the way between the two stations

  Some day, maybe even next Wednesday, I must do this again, but this time I hope I will remember to stop the trackers while I am on the train. I have always thought that with the walk to Ladywell station, and then the walk from Catford Bridge station to home, the actual distance of the walking bit it not a great deal less than the direct walk from home to the pub. The main positive thing about the train is having a rest mid walk, plus being able to get some shopping on the way home.


   My shopping was going to be some extra strength garlic sausage for Michael, but they only had normal strength this time. I hope he finds that good enough. I also bought a selection of instant noodles. Most were of known and loved flavours, but they had some new ones in yesterday. One, which I had yesterday as part of my lunch, was a Japanese instant noodles with a flat noodle that was at least half an inch wide. It had a very thin soup. The "soup base" as many brands call it, is the actual flavouring. Some are really delicious, and some a lot less so.

  The one I tried yesterday was a sort of thin hot and sour "soup". It was interesting, but I can't say I liked it enough to bother ever buying another. I had another for my breakfast this morning. It had more sensible round noodles, and was more Chinese in style (I think). The "soup" with this one was a sort of slightly creamy soup which had some mild spiciness, but nothing that is easy to decide. The score so far is that I feel I will probably stick to the more conventional brands and flavours that I have learned to love.....but I still have a couple of new flavours to try, and maybe one or more will turn out to be really good.

  The other major thing I bought was two small sliced cakes. One was flavoured with pistachio, and the other is a fruit sponge cake. Neither will be good for the diet I am supposed to be on, but at least with the aid of Mounjaro, they will not get my blood glucose too high (the next morning).  Having said that, my blood glucose this morning is not that good, and I only had one slice of one of the cakes (although I did have a couple of very syrupy flatjacks as well yesterday).

  It was lucky I had not taken any useful pictures yesterday, and I did not have to spend time preparing them for showing here. After my lunch I wanted a nice lie down, and a snooze. I did indeed end up having a good snooze, but it was not as extreme as the other day when it seemed like I managed to sleep right though the afternoon.

  I guess I still did very little in the afternoon, but one thing I did remember to do was to look through the leaflet that comes with the Mounjaro injector pen. I wanted to check known side effects to see if headaches were one listed. They were, but only as a result of blood glucose getting too low. I didn't actually check, and didn't need to because I got my first bad headache while watching TV not long after eating. I am very sure my blood glucose was anything but low after eating very sweet cake ! I also ruled out blood pressure as a cause. I think it was 123/60, and that is pretty much textbook perfect.

  I watched the news while eating my dinner. The main course was a Jerk Chicken with rice and stuff. It was part of Aldi's "Protein" range of ready meals. In theory it was slightly low calories and low in sugars. Fortunately it was still quite nice, and I think I'll add it to my "approved" list. I think I had another slice of cake as a dessert, and if it wasn't cake it was more likely to have been a couple of flapjack bars.

  Once again I had a very unproductive even watching the usual TV programmes, and finally getting to bed at 11pm. I expected to fall asleep almost instantly, and I may have done so, but it was not long before I was awake again. It may have been the slightly spicy Jerk chicken, or something else, but I had some mild acid indigestion. I had to get up and chew on some Rennies. I'm not sure how much sleep I lost. It may have been slightly less than an hour, but I have a nagging feeling it might have been as much as two hours. It is possible the confusion is because it was 2am when I went back to bed.

  I think I am 90% certain I had some interesting dreams last night, but that missing 10% is a significant area of doubt. If I did dream I can't seem to remember anything about the dream, or dreams. I do feel sure it is because of the change from BST to GMT that I seemed to be going to bed extra late recently, and also sleeping late. It seemed zero effort to sleep until almost 8am this morning - hours after sunrise. I did wake up at 6am to go for a pee, and before I got back to bed I refreshed the weather forecasts for today so I could take screen shots after getting up.

  This morning, the result of some rash eating, and despite doing some exercise, I seem to have gained 600gm this morning. Some of that could be because I have not had a poo this morning. For unknown reasons it doesn't even seem that I need one. One of the many "joys" of Mounjaro is to slow up food and then waste through the body. This morning I had my first taste of another known effect of this. I had an eggy burp where food has laid in my stomach too long. The retention of food in the stomach is supposed to make you feel less hungry, and that is one way Mounjaro is supposed to make you lose weight. It is a shame that my brain sees that as no reason to not eat !

  My blood glucose was OK-ish this morning, but nothing to be proud of. The Contour meter read 8.6mmol/l, and that is getting very close to the limits. The GlucoRX meter read a rather better 7.3mmol/l. That is very, very slightly higher than good enough. The GlucoFix meter read the highest at 8.7mmol/l. That is even closer to the mostly safe limit before 9mmol/l where the first bad things can happen (although the Hospital Diabetes nurse says 10.0mmol/l is the actual red line, and anything over needs action [unless it is just a one off reading]).

  The main thing on the menu today should be an afternoon beer tasting session with Jodie and Michael. We still have a few interesting beers to try, but it should be a social occasion as well. The trouble is that Jodie will be stuck reading stuff on her phone, and Michael will be moaning about something or another - if it is not about his wife getting worse, it will be about how much he hates Catford (where he lives around the corner from me !).










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