Swivelling round by about 60 degrees and the half moon glows brightly in the still blue sky. I think the bird accompanying it is a sea gull of some description. When I got back to Catford I went home via Iceland (the supermarket). By the time I had finished shopping, and walked half way home, it was most definitely night time. Sunset was at 16:02 if I recall correctly, and it was getting on for 17:00 when I got home, and yet the western sky still seemed to be glowing pale blue. I have a feeling it was actually city sky glow. That used to be a sort of browny orange because of the sodium street lamps, but now so many street lamps have been changed to white LED lights, I think the sky glow is taking on this new bluish colour. I don't think I like it for the simple reason that it is confusing - though I guess we'll all get used to it pretty quickly - assuming my theory is correct.

 I didn't have too bad a day at work. I often felt a bit light headed, and now and then I did suffer some momentary giddiness. Mostly it was annoying rather than particularly unpleasant. I have come to the conclusion that it is almost certainly an inner ear problem, and I think that may be being fed from what may be a painless infection in my gum - a sort of painless abscess. There are two clues to this. If I suck in the area of gum where there used to be two teeth, I can sometimes suck out some foul tasting muck. The second clue is that I noticed that any hint of light headeness and or giddiness went for quite some time after chewing some Hoola Hoops. I think the motion and muscle work, moved/stirred up whatever is upsetting my inner ear. I know many people who would dive for antibiotics at this point, but I reckon it will clear itself up soon. It is rather variable, but it seems to have improved over the course of today. Maybe it will be gone tomorrow if I am lucky.

 After a whole 5 days at work, and with some of those days a bit trying, I didn't feel like doing anything last night - except for one interesting little experiment. While I was in Iceland I was mainly buying some 3 litre bottles of Diet Coke, but I also bought two ready meals from their "Slimming World" range. I bought a Chicken Tikka Masala, and a Sweet Potato Curry. They are fat free, and the entire curry only has about 400 calories in it. I ate both of them last night without any rice, or other stuff, and I found them fairly filling. They do taste a little odd at first, but it was a flavour that was easy to grow to like, and I enjoyed each one. They are fairly filling, and if, as I will try now and then, I only eat a couple of them for my evening meal, and about 400 calories of salad for breakfast (as I do most mornings at work), I could possibly manage to get through the day on 1200 calories. That is about the right amount for me to lose useful amounts of weight. It is about what I was managing in the months leading up to me going in hospital.

 I stayed up a bit later that usual last night, but I think I was in bed, and asleep around 10pm. As far as I can recall I slept reasonably well last night. Once or twice I did have some mild giddiness when I laid my head on the pillow, but it was so mild I shut my eyes and ignored it. If I had any particular problem is the old story of bad heat regulation. It was a very cold night last night, and as low as 3° C at sunrise. So I kept the heating on all night. I was sometimes too hot under the duvet, and because the heating was on quite low, I felt too cold if I uncovered too much of me.

 Anyhow, I managed to have a lay in. Before actually getting up I didn't really know when I was awake, and when I was asleep and dreaming, but sometime after 7 am I slowly started to get up. I thought that washing my hair could be a comedy, but to my surprise, hanging my head over the bath didn't invoke more than a mild hint of giddiness. I had visions of falling head first into the bath, but I think if I hadn't been expecting some giddiness, I wouldn't have even have noticed the very brief, very mild hints of it.

 Curiously enough, it was while I was sitting in the pub having my beer breakfast while Aleemah had a traditional cooked, but vegetarian breakfast, that I came across feeling a bit "something" - that curious indescribable cross between something that isn't quite giddy, and something that isn't quite like light headedness. It didn't feel nice, but had absolutely no consequences - I could walk, talk and drink beer with no difficulty, and that's all that counts.

 Aleemah brought over another dreadful horror movie today. It was another one based on an H.P. Lovecraft story, and like all his stories, it was loaded with plastic suspense, and plastic horror, and fake blood and fake tentacles, and ultimately was very boring ! I spent some of the time it was playing by playing with a new toy I bought from Aldi on the way back from the pub, and poor Aleemah seemed to spend half the movie in the toilet suffering from a stomach upset !

 When Aleemah went home I was going to try and get busy doing something, but ultimately I just couldn't be bothered. Maybe I just couldn't summon the energy to do something like wash 5 work shirts. I did spend a little time playing with my radio controlled weather stations. It was another of these that I bought from Aldi today. What is now my second newest one decided it couldn't read it's outside sensor. I though that it had been knocked off the kitchen windowsill one too many times, and had become so detuned that it would never work again.

 When I brought it indoors, and placed itcloser to the display unit, it started to work again. So I moved the display unit into the back room, and I think it is working OK again for now. The new unit I bought from Aldi today was, or would have been a bargain compared to the price of my other units, but unfortunately it seems to have come with no instruction manual. It presumably fell out, or has been stolen - something I may have to resort to. I have worked out how to see most of it up, but a few things are baffling me. In particular I want to know what the USB socket on it is for. I suspect that there may be a way to get it to record the current temperature and stuff, but I have no idea how to trigger it if that is possible.

 It was very wet, and very cold this morning. A few degrees lower and we would have had some snow. Some people outside of London, and on higher ground did have a sprinkling of snow this morning. By about 11am the rain had stopped, and there was some sunshine. It even warmed up by several degrees, but now the temperature is dropping fast. By my reckoning it is now down to 1.5° C outside, and if it should rain it will almost definitely fall as snow. The forecast says it will be 0° C by 5am tomorrow, but tomorrow morning is going to be nice and sunny (but still bloody cold !!).It is supposed to get a bit cloudy in the afternoon, but should stay dry all day. The top temperature is forecast to be no more than 5° C !