Today is currently shown to be a slightly warmer day than yesterday, 23° C. After some light cloud dissipates, and that seems to be happening now, a bit later than forecast, it should be a gloriously sunny day. The most significant change in the latest revision is that now the pollen count is shown as VH = Very High ! The trend for warm sunny days continues tomorrow, although the afternoon high may not quite reach 23° C. The first break in this trend may be next Wednesday when a few hours of rain are forecast, but the forecast for next Wednesday could, and probably will change beyond all recognition by the time the day arrives.

   Yesterday was another day when I only went out to get some shopping. Although my constipation resolved itself by mid morning (it wasn't really constipation - just things running late) I must have had some sort of foresight about what would come later. I felt perfectly comfortable until around midday when I had a strong desire to go to the toilet, and subsequently it was fully understandable why I had that strong desire. Had I gone out, as intended, that could have hit me when I was in the middle of nowhere.

  I did go out shopping yesterday, but for some strange reason, I can't remember when. I think it was early afternoon, but it could have been late morning. What I do remember is how I was evidently feeling good on the way back. I went to the Sainsbury's Local shop by Catford station specifically because I wanted the latest New Scientist magazine. Of course I bought other things too, a couple of salads, and a couple of 2l bottles of Pepsi Max.

  The most direct route home is to go up the steps by the side of Catford Bridge station. It is usually the case that I go up those steps after a long walk, or in earlier times, with a belly full of beer, and I take each step at a time. It doesn't seem that long ago when going up those steps, particularly with a belly full of beer, would leave me short of breath at the top. Yesterday, despite carrying shopping, I seemed to be one notch less than running up those steps. It does seem like my body has changed a fair bit in the last few months.

  Like the day before, I had a lot of lazy time yesterday, but I was also slightly productive. The biggest task I did was to hand wash a large bath towel, and a smaller hand towel. I had both hanging on the line outside for most of the afternoon, and 4 or so hours later they were dry enough to bring in again. The big towel did have a very slightly damp feeling area, and I noted it was in the same place as the very slightly damp t-shirt I brought in the other day. There is no source of moisture that could have made it damp. I suspect it is just the way the wind eddies around the corner of the house.

  I spent maybe 10 or 15 minutes each on two other jobs. One was a little more clearing up in the back room. I am now getting very close to absolutely having to do something with the firewall PC that is working 24 hours a day while it is partly disassembled after it's last emergency repair years ago. I am not sure if the big power supply that I had to use after the original failed, will actually fit inside the case. So that is one problem to overcome, and then there is the problem that all my internet access goes through that firewall, and if I shut it down I have no internet access. That is the reason it is in the state it is in - once I got it working I didn't want to touch it !

  The other little job was to do some weeding in the garden. I could potentially have spent hours out there dealing with all the weeds that seem to be growing in preference to to seeds I planted. Now I regularly water the garden it just makes the weeds worse ! The bit of weeding I did do was mostly around the self-seeded potato plants that are growing in my flower bed. I also cleared the weeds around the ice plant that Michael gave me. I wasn't sure that would live when I planted it. It was very floppy despite keeping it in a glass of water overnight before I planted it, but it is now looking stronger.

  I tried to eat healthily yesterday, but my shopping trip to Sainsbury's tripped that up. The one other thing I bought was another 500ml tub of ice cream. Once again it was an alleged low calorie/low sugar ice cream. One unusual claim is that it was high in protein - not something you usually associate with ice cream. It did seem to be beneficial at first. It seemed to hold my hinger back until almost dinner time. About half an hour before dinner time I checked my blood glucose level, and it was very good, 6.0mmol/l. I must confess that rather surprised me.

  My dinner should have carried that trend on. It was part grilled, part oven cooked chicken thighs - they were cooked in their own juices with lots of seasoning added. There were two negative aspects - one was that they were not skinless, and the other was that I ate too many of them. I was stuck on that curious dilemma where half of them seemed too little, and all of them were too much, but the right amount would too few spares to make another meal. I ate the chicken with steamed (frozen) cauliflower.

  Once again it seemed that TV could no capture my imagination, and I found myself watering the garden in the middle of Star Trek. By 9pm I was in bed, and reading. I don't know what time I got to sleep, but it was probably around 10pm. I slept well until I woke up at 2am, or thereabouts, feeling rather chilly. When I had fallen asleep it seemed fairly warm in my bedroom, and I had all but kicked the duvet off my bed,but it was not a warm night. I was not shivering, but to get back to sleep again, after going for a pee, I had to arrange the duvet to keep my cold areas warm, and my warm areas cool.

  I woke again at around 5am. Once, during the time of my last job, this was my standard time for getting up, but now it feels too early, and so I was soon back in bed again. I don't think I slept that much, but I have thought that before and realised that all the "lost time" says that I did sleep. On this occasion I am not sure I did sleep that much. What I am certain about is that I couldn't stop yawning when I did decide to not fight it any more, and to give up trying for more sleep.

  This morning I haven't been to the toilet again - yet. Hopefully that will change very soon. My big disappointment is that my blood glucose was 7.7mmol/l this morning. After the nice low reading before dinner yesterday, I was hoping for a similar figure this morning. It is nothing for me to worry about, but is still rather annoying. At least my weight is currently looking OK, although slightly high because I have yet to go to the toilet. I have a feeling that even when that happens it will show I didn't lose any weight yesterday.

  Bearing in mind my blood glucose level being higher than I desire, and the probability of not losing any weight yesterday, it seems that I ought to try and get myself out for a long (3 miles minimum) walk today. At this time in the morning I can't say it will definitely happen, but it is a reasonable probability. I still fancy getting a train to New Beckenham station, and from there walk to the southern start of the Waterlink Way before walking all the way home mostly along the Waterlink Way.