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  The Met Office forecast showed mist and I think saw fog mentioned for one hour this morning. At about daybreak there was some light mist, but it cleared fairly soon. It was cold enough for some frost on exposed surfaces this morning, but it is slowly warming up. However the best we can hope for is just 7° C for a mere two hours in the middle of the day. No sunshine is forecast for today, but I can see patches of blue sky, and the sun is trying to shine as I write this. It is funny how the headline says light cloud (which it is at the moment) and yet over half of the symbols on the chart show black clouds. It make me wonder how accurate it is. Anyway, it seems likely that this evening will see some rain. That rain could continue through the night, and tomorrow is shown as being mostly wet. On the plus side (almost) tomorrow may see an afternoon peak of 10° C.

  One of the problems yesterday is that what I wrote yesterday is full of silly errors - spelling mistakes, wrong words, and al sorts of exciting grammatical errors. I doubt I'll do better today....although if it feels I have the time and inclination I may do something I very, extremely rarely do - proof reading !

  Yesterday was good although it could be described as bad because I didn't do a couple of important things I thought I would do. One was to walk through the park to The Jolly Farmers. I thought that if I took it easy I could do that walk with no real problems, but I guess my nerve went, and it seemed easier to just stay in the warm. The other thing would have been to get some shopping - possibly on my way home from the Jolly Farmers, or maybe as an alternative to walking throughn the park, a walk to Tesco. Once again it seemed easier to stay in the warm.

  Sooner or later I will have to go to Tesco, and it might be today, but this time I make no predictions. I had the leftovers of my Pizza order to feed me yesterday, and that seemed to work quite well. As I said yesterday, if I used the right words in the right order, what seemed a very expensive takeaway seemed less expensive when I realised I could get two more meals out of it after I had gorged mainly on the side dishes I had ordered.

  Yesterday's breakfast was quite big, but it was just a double portion of instant noodles. It was filling enough to make me want to snooze as soon as I had finished writing yesterday's piece, and that is exactly what I did. I felt so comfortable that I didn't want to have to break off and have a shower. I remained unwashed all day, and that was also a reason why I never went out and mingled with the great unwashed public, barmaids, Tesco checkout operators, and so on.

  The first exciting time was lunch time. Actually it was not a great deal of excitement, but just a small diversion from feeling warm, comfortable, and lazy. My lunch was a couple of cold slices of pizza (I think it was a meat feast pizza I ordered, but it might have been a spicy meat pizza). I think I was a little surprised that just two slices of cold pizza was so satisfying. It might almost have been slightly healthy if you throw all logic out the window, and beleive what you want to believe.

  During that afternoon, as well as sending some updates about my hospital adventures, and my general health to my 2 sisters, via email, I spend some time reading the 5th Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy book called "Mostly Harmless". I kept seeing it mentioned on the back, or inside the back cover of the last Douglas Adaams book I read, and I thought I ought to order it to complete my collection.

  I was then surprised to see it already on my bookshelf, and I only had to read the first page to realise I had read it before. That does not imply I can remember any more than a few bits of the book, and so reading it again is once again very enjoyable. I guess my afternoon could be described as reading, writing and snoozing. These are the luxuries in life, and sometimes I wonder why I need more, then I think about all the other good stuff I could do when my health was far better, and look forward to when my heart is repaired, and I can go and do all those things again.

  My final meal from my now not seeming to be so expensive pizza order was for dinner last night. This time I did not eat the pizza cold, but heated in my mini oven. I did what I have seen Jodie do many times, and usually make a mess. I got it right when I added some more sliced jalapeños, and another big sprinkle of grated cheddar cheese on top of the pizza. I then heated it in the oven for long enough for the cheese to melt. It made for another very satisfying meal (although this time it was three slices). After the pizza I used up the last ice cream in the freezer, and that is a reason I may try and get to Tesco today.

  My evening was the usual watching my usual TV programmes, but I did throw in the towel early and get to bed just before 9pm. Before going to bed I had a snack of something I had forgotten about. Before I left hospital one of the nurses gave me two small packets of biscuits (2 or 3 biscuits in each packet). One had biscuits with fruit in them, and the other was a fairly sweet tasting plain biscuits. With hindsight I think those biscuits had quite a high sugar content, and eating them as a pre-bedtime snack was not wise.

  I had little problem getting to sleep, but staying asleep was not to so good. I had weighed myself before getting in bed, and I could see I needed to lose a whole kilogram during the night if I didn't want to see a big jump in my weight this morning. At first I thought is was the Furosemide (a powerful diuretic) that made me wake every 1 to 3 hours to go for a pee, and it probably did help, but this morning I found my blood glucose was a lot higher than I liked (but close to safe-ish).

  When I finally got up I had another pee, and then weighed myself. I found I had put on 300gm since yesterday morning, but if a one off, that was not so bad. What was bad was my blood glucose. The nest reading was 8.5mmol/l, and that was OK, but the other two meters agreed on 9.1mmol/l, and that is higher than I like, and is just at the start of where some negative things could happen if it stays that high for too long. Once again, my blood pressure is very good, maybe too good, at 113/48.

  The main event today will be a beer tasting session with Jodie and Michael (and maybe more). Before that I will have my usual post writing snooze. After that I had better have a shower before I welcome visitors. I may have another go at going shopping. Just lately, judging by the ease I can go up the stairs, I seem to be feeling better than I have done, and I may find I have the courage, or patience, or something, to attempt a shopping trip to Tesco. I still have food in the freezer, but there are things I am starting to want to have handy - like ice cream, cake, and some frozen vegetables and stuff for a bit of home cooking instead of ready meals.

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