My thermometers said it was just 3° C at 6am, and I think we only missed a frost by the skin of our teeth. The reason for this very low temperature was the clear sky. There seems to be a bit of light cloud to the west, but much of the sky is blue, and the sun is shining. That should raise the temperature to 13° C by this afternoon, although after 11am we may only get sunny intervals. Tomorrow may be a degree or two cooler, and there will probably just be sunny intervals through the day.

  Yesterday could have been almost as boring as Sunday, but somehow the day seemed to fly by. My package from Amazon arrived a bit later than expected. I predicted sometime around 3pm, but it was actually 5pm. That still gave me enough time to play with my new toys before the end on the day.  Prior to that I was stuck on high alert from about midday, and I could do very little that might make me miss the doorbell.

  I did go out for a very short walk. It wasn't exercise, but a walk to the Poundshop. I think there were two people waiting outside when I got there, but one went inside as soon as I joined the queue. I guess I waited just a few minutes before being allowed in the shop. I bought a bit of cleaning stuff, some nots, and some drinks. There were two bargains when it came to drinks. Two large cans of sugar free Irn Bru for £1 (or £1 a can if only one bought - weird !). The other was 1.25 litre bottles of Pepsi Max. I prefer to buy larger bottles, preferably 2 litres, and they seem to be £1.99p  at other shops. Poundland at a bit less than £1 per litre is therefore slightly cheaper.

  During he afternoon I wanted to lay down to read, but I knew I would probably fall asleep despite getting a fair sleep the night before. So I spent my afternoon upright, and not lying down. I've never really understood why, but the lower my blood glucose level becomes, the less hungry I get (up to a limit). Until I had dinner I didn't really eat anything that substantial - at least not by my personal terms of reference. I did have two little pots of bean type salads - one was chick pea salad, and the other mixed beans.

  Finally my package arrived, It contained the very mundane to the quite exciting (in a 5 minute wonder type of way). The very mundane was a very cheap battery tester. It was as much as three time the price as the one I once bought from the 99p shop, and it is at least three times the quality, but still sort of plasticky, cheap and nasty. The exciting was a security camera. I also bought a power supply for it.

  The security camera was surprisingly cheap )£36) for what appears to be quite a good little camera. It's special feature is that it is connected via Ethernet, and although there is an option to use a Chinese cloud server to give a few extra facilities, it works perfectly well just on my local ethernet connected network. The other very useful thing is that it accepts Power-Over-Ethernet. The extra power supply for it was a £10 wallwart type supply that sends power down the Ethernet cable to power the thing. This is very useful because it makes the cabling easier when I mount it outside where it will eventually replace my "cat cam" - a very cheap and nasty pan and tilt camera that warns to be only used indoors, but has survived (with a few minor repairs) out in all weather on the back room windowsill for maybe 10 years. That camera must be near the end of it's life soon, and so I wanted a replacement.

  Dinner interrupted playing with the new camera. It was a variant on the dinner I had the previous night - skinless and boneless chicken thighs oven cooked with herbs and spices served with the contents of a Tesco simple salad. I think I have now everything I bought from Tesco last week. I probably ought to grit my teeth and make another early morning visit to get more stuff soon.

 I had another long and rambling call from Lee last night. I don't think he really said much of interest in the hour and a bit he was on the phone, and at 10pm I told him I was going to bed, and goodbye ! I actually stayed awake for at least another half hour after that for a bit of reading in bed, but once I turned the light out I was soon fast asleep. Apart from waking up earlier than I might have desired, I seemed to sleep really well last night. I know I dreamed, but I can't seem to recall any details from any of my dreams this morning.

  There was a bit of good news this morning. Although not quite as good the the morning before, maybe it was the absence of beer last night, my blood glucose was nice and low again, just 6.50mmol/l. Even my weight seems to have dropped a bit, but sadly it is still not part of an overall downward trend. For the last week it has just been oscillating up and down by a few hundred grams, and this morning is probably just a trough in that oscillation. Maybe tomorrow it will peak again.

  Part of my day is mapped out for me today. I have some stone cold washing that left in it's big bucket in the bath yesterday. I set the stuff I was washing to soak in detergent, and kept meaning to finish the job "soon". Soon never came, and now I have the unpleasant task of dealing with that ice cold soapy washing before I can have a shower this morning. I guess finishing that washing, and hanging it up to dry has got to be the first thing I do today.

  The next thing on my list to do is to terminate some Cat5 cable in an RJ45 connector. I won't try and describe the process in detail, but in essence to means poking 8 wires down into the connector, and getting the individual wires down narrow channels in the correct order. This is never very easy, but some makes of cable seem to have better behaved wires, and some makes of cable have wires that flop about all over the place, and it takes infinite tries to get them into their correct holes. It took over half an hour of fiddling to get one end terminated, but it turned out that two wires had crossed over. Then it took another half an hour to try again, but this time the crimping was faulty, and although the cable worked, it was very intermittent. The next task today is to terminate that cable again. Hopefully it might be easier in proper daylight, and perhaps when I feel fresher - but I am not optimistic about it !

  I have another order from Amazon on the way. It is my new garden hose, but that may not arrive for a few days or more yet, and so I am free to go out for a walk today. I have no idea where I might walk, what boots I might wear yet, but I think I will do some shopping on the way home. Maybe the walk will just be to the shops and back yet. I'll have some sort of idea what I am doing probably as I am doing it !