It was interesting
to use the phone with no sim card in it. With
no data source to update the map along the way
it stayed blank, as expected, until I got
home, and it connected to my WiFi, and could
draw the background to the map. The phone
remembered all the GPS data as I hoped it
would. I have now turned off the setting that
allows the location to be confirmed by cell
tower. Location by cell tower is often
suspect, and that makes me wonder why it is
supposed to be so useful for criminal
investigations. When I was at work my
location, according to cell tower information,
was always shown as being on the far side of
the main road - at least a quarter of a mile
away. I hope that turning off the setting to
use cell towers in the tracking app will make
my tracks much more accurate on my current
phone.
I have to admit that it is interesting
having tried quite a selection of cheap
phones, all bought sim free, and all under
£200. None are obviously as good as iPhones or
Samsungs costing 5 times the price, because
the cheap phones all seem to have one flaw or
another. If changing the setting in my current
phone, a Huawei P20 Lite, bought for £169,
cures that tracking problem then it will
almost raise it up to the standard of those
very expensive phones. It will be left with
one flaw - I don't rate the pictures it takes.
They are good enough, but not great. On the
other hand the camera does produce some
excellent video of gigs when the lighting is
low, and the sound is high. That is the one
thing I had been searching for when buying a
new cheapo phone every 6 to 12 months.
My walk yesterday included going
through Lewisham Park in the hope of seeing
Angela. I made sure I didn't get there too
early, and hung around in the park for about
10 minutes in case she was late, but she
didn't show by the time I left the park. My
route took me past where she works (on the
other side of the road), and so I would have
seen her if she was starting her lunchbreak a
bit later. My walk also took me past the Tesco
Express store. I find it really irritating
that the queue to get in is by the roadside,
instead of along the front of the shop. I
think the queue may have continued across the
side road by the store. If people queued
sensibly, in front of the store, at the
required 2 metre spacing, they could go around
the corner, and keep out of everyone's way. I
refuse to use the place while the queue is
like this (and so long).
I would much prefer to have gone to
Sainsbury's - except this shop, and if I
remember correctly it was just a shop rather
than a supermarket, closed about 50 years ago,
and yet the name, painted on the side of the
building is still very visible.
The queue to get in Aldi is fairly
sensible except for the stupid git who has
parked in the middle of it. From this distance
it is hard to see where the queue ends. There
are some people beyond the car who might be
queuing, or they might just be waiting for
other reasons. I see no reason for that idiot
to park in the middle of the queue. There are
parking places for blue badge holders on the
opposite side of the road to that idiots car.
Really stupid and selfish car drivers are the
bane of shopping at Aldi. Some park right
across the clearly marked pedestrian crossing,
and some park up on the pavement. The latter
do not allow enough room for wheelchair users
to pass, and not enough room for me to pass
without one of my bags rubbing down the side
of their car. It is not a malicious thing, but
just a matter of physics.
I would have liked to have walked a bit
more than the 2 miles, but a few things
stopped me - and most of those few things were
my feet. The bunion, or whatever it is that my
other boots scraped the top off, was still a
little sore even when padded by two sticking
plasters, but there was another problem. The
insoles of my favourite walking boots were
starting to wear, and I changed them for some
brand new gel comfort insoles. That changed
the whole dynamics of the boots. They were in
one respect a bit more comfortable, but they
seemed much more clunky, and somehow that made
them more difficult to walk in.
I can't really describe why walking on
those softer gel insoles should make it feel
more like hard work. I think my ankles were
starting to ache a bit when I got home. I also
had another problem that was brewing (probably
literally) that I would not discover until
much later, but made me feel a bit tired. So I
didn't try and extend my walk any further, but
2 miles seems like enough to try and keep in
practice.
Soon after I got home I had some lunch.
It was a very simple, and for some a very
healthy lunch - a couple of apples with a
chunk of cheese. I suspect that those apples
provided me with more sugar than my body can
handle. My blood glucose before dinner was a
bit higher than I wanted, although the only
way it could have been low is if I had been
fasting all day up to then. The fact
that I spent most of the afternoon reading, or
dozing on my bed, didn't help, but I was
feeling rather tired - and I was beginning to
notice some slight discomfort in my gut.
I thought that for dinner I would go
for a tried and tested known low
calorie/carbohydrate Shish Kebab. I used one
off the restaurants I had used before, and
ordered two chicken shish kebabs - one for
last night, and one for tonight. I was very
happy that my order was delivered about half
an hour before the estimated time, and it was
delicious. After dinner I resumed being very
lazy. I probably watched nearly 4 hours of TV
last night....although I didn't always pay
attention to what I was watching !
It was while watching TV that I began
to notice a few rumbles from my gut. Before I
had finished watching TV I had to make several
visits to the toilet...err, possibly 4, and
all in quick succession. It was as if the
cabbage and onion I had eaten the night before
had been fermenting inside of me, and needed
to exit in a hurry ! I guess it was 10pm
before I was sure it was all over except for
some tenderness. I was in bed soon after that,
although initially just to do some more
reading. It was interesting that at 9pm I was
only 0.4° C below "normal" body temperature,
and that is almost a raging fever for me.
It was a warm day as such, and it
cooled off quite a bit in the evening. To
compensate I left the heater on low for most
of the evening. I should have turned it off
when I finally got into bed, but I left it on.
That left me in that stupid situation of
feeling too warm with the duvet, and just very
slightly too cool without it. Oddly enough it
didn't seem to interfere with my sleep once I
got to sleep until the small hours of this
morning when it did feel a bit cool without at
least a foot and arm covered by the duvet.
This morning I do not feel great. Some
of it is that I haven't heard from Angela
despite her seeing a message I sent her
yesterday saying I was worried that she had
been so quiet over the long weekend. I have my
suspicions that she may have "illegally" spent
some or all the time with a non member of her
household - lover boy. On top of that my blood
glucose is back up again this morning, and so
is my weight. The latter I am a bit surprised
about because I thought I had been taking care
of what I ate - except for those two apples -
and it seemed that last night I had a really
good clear out that should also have cleared
any water retention. I ought to fast until
dinner time, and I really ought to aim for a
walk of over 3 miles today. The trouble is
that I don't fancy either option. I'll
probably go for some sort of walk today. I
might even see if Angela is in the park at
lunchtime, but somehow that feels pointless.
Life will be so much sweeter when the pubs
re-open again.
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