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  This morning started off wet. It must have been raining during the night, and maybe only stopped just before sunrise. It also seemed to have warmed up a bit. It was 9° C at 1am, but at 7am the forecast said it should be 11° C, and I think that was about right. It still looks damp outside, but I haven't seen any rain falling. Maybe it is so light that it can't be seen, and can only be felt.The temperature should rise to 15° C by 1pm, and the forecast says no more rain after that. By 3pm we may get some sunny spells for a couple of hours. By 5pm the sun will have set, and there can't be any sunny spells. Rain my resume at 10pm, and it may start with drizzle. The rain may continue all night, and then through to midday tomorrow. 1pm may be the first hour with no rain, and it should stay dry for the rest of tomorrow. Like today, there will be a couple of hours at 15° C, but most of tomorrow will be either 13° C or 14° C,

  There were several things I thought I might do yesterday, but I only did one of them. Yesterday was awfully grey and wet, and that ruled out any outdoor activities. I didn't even want to take the rubbish out to the wheelie bins !

  One thing I didn't do after I had finished writing, and had a short rest, was to have a shower, and I might have been thinking of washing my hair. I was not expecting to see anyone, and I was not going to go out, and I didn't feel the need for a wash - except for brushing my teeth, and washing my hands a few times. However, I did start to wash two hand towels - one "normal" sized, and the other slightly larger.

  I started by soaking both towels in bio detergent, and didn't get back to them until later in the afternoon. As I expected when washing towels, they needed copious amounts of rinsing, and it was too tiring to do it all in one go. I think I stopped and rsted a few times. I gave up before I was really happy I had rinsed all the soap/detergent out of the towels, but I probably came close to it when I hung them up to dry in the front room, with a desk fan blowing at them to help them dry. That was probably during a TV commercial break, and almost mid evening !

  I passed a fair bit of time, before I started watching TV, by just laying on my bed reading. I think that also meant the occasional snooze, although I don't seem to recall snoozing at any specific time. Maybe sometimes I was just resting my eyes. The one thing I did do was to have some lunch at just after midday. It was basically cheese on rice crackers, which is semi healthy if you ignore the fat content of the cheese. I made sure it was unhealthy, although not really by intention, by adding generous blobs of mustard pickle on each cheese on rice cracker.

  As already mentioned, I returned to the towels I was washing a few times, but most of the afternoon was just wallowing in semi laziness. As 6pm approached I got ready for watching the 6 O'clock News, and having dinner. My dinner was the well tested recipe of vanilla ice cream, and cake. As unlikely as it sounds, it seemed to be a bit healthy in some respects. I can lose weight when eating it, and it doesn't seem to affect my blood glucose. I left it to some snacks to sabotage any goodness of my dinner.

  I watched the usual TV programmes, and finished with an edition of Have I Got News For You. That finished at 11pm, and I want straight to bed once it had finished. Things seem very vague after that, and I think that was because I was soon fast asleep. I know I got up to pee a few times, and I was awake considering a dream for a short while, but I seemed to get enough good sleep to get up a bit earlier this morning.

  My dream used some real life in it, but a bit twisted, and maybe a lot twisted in an erotic way. The real life element was to to do with my light sensitivity to iodine when used as a contrast dye to make veins and arteries show up more on X-rays. I think the dream started in a doctor's surgery. It all seemed to be a bit confusing as to why what was happening was happening. It involved giving sperm samples, and they were to be preserved in an iodine solution, or maybe the test was to see if they were preserved in an iodine solution.

  I was to go along to a certain room where I would be met by an alleged very pretty physiotherapist who would assist me in procuring a sperm sample, or ideally more than one. The sad thing is that the dream dafed away as I was walking to the room. I never did get to meet the "very pretty physiotherapist", and get to "enjoy" all she could do for me.

  After I had finished writing yesterday morning, I had another visit to the toilet, and do what was possibly my fourth poo of the day. That last one was quite "loose", but not nearly as bad as diarrhoea, but it must have emptied me out enough that this morning all I could manage was a big fart. Fortunately I did also manage another big pee. The net result of it all was that this morning I seem to have put on 100gm (although earlier on it was more like 500gm). Losing 100gm would have been far more preferable.

  My blood glucose has returned to a nicer, but only just, figure. The Contour meter read 6.9mmol/l, and anything starting with a "six" is very good. The GlucoRX meter read even better at 6.6mmol/l. Once again, and  very annoying after the great start to using the meter, the GlucoFix meter gave the highest reading. It was 7.6mmol/l, but that is still pretty good. The average for all three is 7.03 mmol/l, and that is an improvement on yesterday's 7.1mmol/l, but only a tiny improvement, and actually exactly the same as the previous couple of days.
  I almost I forgot this picture I took at just after 3.30pm yesterday. I went into the back room to put a freshly charged battery into one of my camera bags, and saw this rainbow out the window. I can't recall seeing one so far to the south. Most tend to be at right angles to my house, or to the east. This one seemed quite bright, and there was an easy to see second rainbow just to the left of it. The sun was getting close to setting when I took the picture, and so everything looks a bit dull. Fortunately the closest camera to hand was my semi-pro Nikon D610, and the picture was "clean enough" to enhance without adding noise and stuff.

  There are a few things I will probably do today. One is to have a shower, and I may wash my hair too. That would save time tomorrow morning. The main thing I want to do today is to go out shopping to Poundstretcher (or possibly Poundland). I want to buy some cereal bowls, or something similar to use as cat food plates. I also want to buy a new toilet brush and holder. My existing one once looked very nice. it was like it was silver plated, but it was just tinned tin, and it is now badly rushing. In fact I think it has a hole in it's base (fortunately it has a plastic cup inside that retains any smelly drips).

  There is probably other stuff I will buy, but I'll have to get there to decide what it will be once I have seen it. I'm not sure what else I might do today. It might be no more than quietly reading and snoozing - except for one thing. Once I have showered it will be time to give myself my next Mounjaro injection. That will be the second of four from the current injection pen. Tomorrow I see the nurse, and I expect she will prescribe the next strength up. I am getting an occasional hint that the stuff is starting to help with weight loss, but it is not the miracle drug I was lead to believe it was.








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