Yesterday had it's good points, but I felt mostly bored and almost miserable. Getting some shopping from Aldi in the morning was the high point of the day, but after that I found I couldn't relax t the degree I was aiming for. I think I did suggest yesterday morning that I would probably end up doing a few odd jobs if I couldn't reach the level of laziness desired - which ultimately was probably to sleep all day long. In fact I am not sure if I had a single snooze all day.

  Yesterday morning I did list a few things that I really had to do. The biggest of these was to clean up the kitchen because it was smelling stale in there. I did a lot of overdue washing up, emptied the waste bins (normal and recycling), and disposed of some peelings and left over food into the garden waste bin where it can compost. There is one task left that I will probably do today, and that is to clean the lid of the waste bin in the kitchen. I think I'll hose it down when I water the garden today.

  I seemed to do a fair bit of housework yesterday, and it sounds like it should have taken up a fair bit of time, but I still seemed to have an awful lot of day left with nothing to fill it. My housework started with tidying up the spare bedroom. It seems unlikely that Patricia will be staying here this year, but she has hope that maybe restrictions might be lifted before the end of the year. I have been trying to keep the room clear, but ultimately a fair bit of stuff was dumped in there - most of it on the bed. It included a few framed photos that I have been meaning to hang on a wall sometime. It is a bit of a messy display because it has grown "organically", but I added a couple more photos to the wall outside the bedrooms.
  Someday I must sort these photos and other stuff, into some sort of order, or at least try and straighten them up, but at least for now that are out of the way.

  From the spare bedroom I moved down to the back room. I did a little bit of tidying up in there, but mainly I hoovered the floor. Before I could commence hoovering I had the unpleasant task of emptying the cyclonic (possibly) dust collection cylinder, and clear the air filter of dust, hair, and who knows what. My original idea was to hoover upstairs, particularly my bedroom, but I started in the back room, and then went on the do the hall and the front room. I must confess there were quite a few ancient crumbs in the carpet I had been meaning to hoover up for some time.

   By the time I had done the back room, the hall, and the living room, I was sweating. I am sure I was sweating more than when walking up the steep hill in blazing sunshine the day before. One obvious reason was that indoors there was no wind to cool me. There was also that the air seemed a bit humid as I waited for the rain to fall. It was well overdue at that time, and I did wonder if it might brew up to a thunderstorm, but when it did start to rain it was a bit of an anti-climax. Just barely enough to spare me the need to water the garden. Anyway, I felt I had done enough hoovering for one day.

  I filled in lots of spare time just reading yesterday, but that was not enough to take my mind off food. As I think I confessed yesterday, I had eaten a tub of standard high calorie/high sugar ice cream, and I really wanted to be very careful what I ate after that. I did manage to hold back eating anything but a handful of hazelnuts as a snack until dinner time.

  Dinner was to be "Punjabi skewered chicken", but I also had a nan bread that I didn't want to waste. I happily waste pitta bread because it has no worthwhile flavour, but nan bread can be very tasty. I couldn't actually taste much of the nan bread because I smothered it in Marmite (a little too much Marmite with hindsight) and melted cheddar cheese. It wasn't exactly the healthiest meal, or part meal I have had ! In one sense it was actually a good idea that I had it because the chicken turned out to be ordinary "chicken tikka", and there was not a lot of it. In fact it it was a tiny serving when compared to the huge tandoori mixed grill I had the night before.

  Considering I was bored a lot yesterday, I still couldn't get excited by the two Star Trek episodes I half watched last night. I think I turned off the second half way through. Once again I was in bed quite early, but only to read. Like the night before, I lost all track of time, and I don't really know what time I turned the light out, but it may have been as early as 10pm. I am fairly certain I fell asleep quickly last night. Unlike the night before I had not drink a lot of beer and squash, and so I was less disturbed by getting up to pee in the night.

  One thing that did disturb me, and it was possibly before midnight, was crunching my ribs when I turned over awkwardly. For a while I wondered if it was the start of "chest pains", but a couple of Ibuprofen, and being careful about how I lay in bed, sorted that out. The only thing I can remember sometime towards the morning, was a strange dream that ended in a sort of genealogy of my cousins on my fathers side. I cannot remember why, but I had to remember who they all were. Somehow I managed it !

  This morning I guess I was pleased that my blood glucose level was sort of OK. It was not as low as I like, but it wasn't very high. The best thing was that it was not as high as I feared. There was less good news about my weight. I seemed to have gained several hundred grams. It was not surprising after that ice cream, and that heavily adulterated nan bread. Perhaps I should think myself lucky that it was no worse.

  I ought to go and burn off some of those extra calories on a long walk today, but I won't be doing that - at least I don't think I will. If the day gets any brighter, and it is quite bright at the moment, and not nearly as grim as the forecast predicted, I might reconsider. My immediate plans include finishing washing some t-shirts and underwear that I put into soak a couple of hours ago. I think I need to do a bit of tidying up in the living room. I have stuff all over the place from when I was doing some VHS to digital video transfers. I might even still hoover my bedroom. One other thing I am contemplating is going out to buy some beer. If Tesco is not busy I might go there, and if it is busy I will go elsewhere.